Not going to defend him, but a Pedophile led nation executing/kidnaping foreign heads of states and bombing schools is not a good thing.
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IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 1 hour ago
the way my Iranian friends have put it as they celebrate the death of the head of the regime and brace themselves for the impact of the new regime is that when you live under opression all your live, you learn to celebrate the small stuff, even as you know what’s coming will also be bad
umbrella@lemmy.ml 35 minutes ago
your “iranian friends” are pretty stupid for celebrating a war against themselves.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 29 minutes ago
regardless of regime changes, nothing good comes from American interventions
regdog@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Godric@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Rothe@piefed.social 10 hours ago
Fuck him. And also fuck the US and Israel. As an outsider this is just all villains fighting each other.
red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com 45 minutes ago
With innocent, normal people caught in the crossfire. If those cunts would simply kill each other, fine. But it’s always other people getting hit too.
Klear@quokk.au 9 hours ago
this is just all villains fighting each other
…and civilian collateral damage, unfortunately.
kiterios@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Unfortunately there’s also civilian collateral damage when they aren’t fighting each other.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I am sure the hundred schoolgirls were also villains fighting each other
SupraMario@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
To Iran they were just going to be new protestors to kill.
Fuck all 3 of these authoritarian shit stains.
red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours ago
I have a list of world leaders whose death’ll make me happy. These are people that make the world better by dying.
Fedizen@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
queermunist@lemmy.ml 1 hour ago
How’s Libya doing these days? Is it good?
rogsson@piefed.social 8 hours ago
Nice! Now do Putin, Trump and the rest of the dictators
Lemminary@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Can we include the plutocrats and oligarchs? That seems to be the root of the problem.
Fishnoodle@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
And don’t forget to nuke Isreal to green dust!
Doomsider@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
So easy to take care of Iran, but so hard to take care of Russia.
Seeing the USA waltz in dropping bombs over literally nothing but ignoring the Ukraine is pretty bizarre.
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 9 hours ago
Now watch all the tankies praise him as a honorary socialist
MrSmith@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
They do already. “Respected leader” one post over there said.
hamid@crazypeople.online 5 hours ago
He literally was respected by people in Iran, not everyone there is against the government and the biggest problems with the government were not him specifically it is the sprawling layers of republican bureaucracy that runs Iran and does a bad job. The Supreme Leader there isn’t really like an absolutist dictator, the Ayatollahs are like the Supreme Court of the Islamic Republic and he was like the Chief Justice.
It is wild seeing USAmericans with no information talking about a topic they only received messaging about from their government.
WereHacker@lemmy.ml 7 hours ago
I am trying to get someone to explain what tankie means. People call me tankie from time to time, but I have no love for the iranian goverment.
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 6 hours ago
Tankies are apologists for “communist” leaders such as Stalin, Mao and Kim. They love Russia, China and North Korea and will swear those countries can do no wrong. “Left” authoritarians… bootlickers.
Greddan@feddit.org 4 hours ago
Mostly cringe american kids who confuse authoritarianism for socialism.
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Assuming you’re not a tankie, I would guess it’s your instance, which is the main one where all the tankies hang out lol
SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 3 hours ago
“Tankie” was originally a British slang term from the 50s.
In 1956, when the Soviet Union invaded Hungary, the British Communist movement was split over whether this action was cool, or sucked.
The people who thought it sucked derided their opponents who thought its cool, as “Tankies”, because the images in the newspapers featured lots of photos of Soviet tanks rolling into Budapest.
After this, it stops being used for the most part, until it started being reclaimed by socialists online as a tongue-in-cheeck insult to throw at each other. Because, let’s be real, it’s a silly sounding word that’s fun to say, and silly words are among the UK’s biggest cultural exports.
Eventually though, Tankie breached containment and started to be used by people who had zero connection to any kind of socialist movement or history, and its meaning began to warp.
I’ve seen Marxists, even those think the Soviet invasion of Hungary was bad, called tankies. I’ve seen Anarchists called Tankies, I’ve seen right wing guys who love trad russian Orthodox Christianity called Tankies.
It’s a word that doesn’t mean much anymore. It’s like when your grandpa calls Joe Biden “Pinko Scum”
porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 6 hours ago
A “tankie” is just anyone to the left of you
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 3 hours ago
It’s basically a term people on the left use for people on the extreme outer-reaches of the left, typically unthinking, uncritical, and unreasonable supporters of bolshevism and authoritarian communism, and pretty much any oppressive regime that considers itself “anti-west.”
They love putin, jinping, kim, assad, khamenei, etc.
They stylize themselves as “Marxist-Leninists” and your instance is full of them, so if you signed up unknowingly and aren’t a tankie, people might just assume based on the “.ml”
But yeah, most people on lemmy are tired of arguing in circles with tankies, who typically rely on ad hominems, strawmen, sealioning, and other bad faith or uncharitable arguments to bully you into exhaustion. Some of them have to be bots or russian trolls, cause no one can honestly be so dense. It can feel like arguing with someone from r/conservative, just with the opposite opinions.
gmtom@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Tankies are basically maga but for “socialism”
They don’t have any actual values or morals and will happily support the most disgusting and heinous people that opress people, are racists wexist homophobic, that murder civilians and even commit genocide as long as they say they hate capitalism, and western imperialism.
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 4 hours ago
Doesn’t the term come from the Tiananmen Square massacre when the army drove tanks over students?
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Every so often I am reminded Reddit liberals (who just weren’t honest enough to stay there with their MAGA friends, who are closer to them than they are to anyone outside of the Western sphere) also came here. Oh well.
This shit is no joke, man, the US backed a coup and when it wasn’t successful enough they murdered people, and this is not even the first time in the span of a year (in this country). And American imperialism is always, always, on the wrong side of history and ethics, because they’re amoral geopolitical moves made to enrich Western aristocrats, loss of life is not even part of the equation. Stop it already, you don’t have to be Greta but at least you can understand this is nothing but violence for the sake of control by the usual villains, and not make fun of it all.
gmtom@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Nah, the guy was a piece of shit and I’m glad he’s dead and fully supporting people meming in him. I’m not giving some opressive dictator that does all the same shit I hate people like Trump for, just because he also hates America.
AppleTea@lemmy.zip 1 hour ago
Genuine political change has to come from the people who live under it. If Trump got blown up tomorrow, it would no more change US politics than this is gonna do anything for Iranians. If you want a people to rise up against their “dictator” give them space to decide the best course of actions for themselves.
Why should Iranian citizens look on this as a good thing when the country that bombed and ransacked their neighbors for 20+ years is looming like a vulture?
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Your heart seems to be in the right place but you’re largely misinformed, or taking things in a vacuum.
ObtuseDoorFrame@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
How is this a shitpost? Politicalmemes exists.
Dozzi92@lemmy.world 27 minutes ago
We need to just start shitposting in every community, because everything is shitpost, and to deny that is to deny life. When you wake up in the morning, that’s shitpost. When you drink a cup of coffee, that’s shitpost. Drive to work, shitpost. It’s all shitpost, and so I think all we can do is shitpost everywhere.
Fedizen@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Every shitpost is a political post. Tell me why you feel this is more political than the post about global corporation KFC’s rubber nuggets.
ObtuseDoorFrame@lemmy.zip 1 hour ago
Bullshit. Fucking bullshit. A genuine shitpost has no agenda other than silly humor. You don’t know what a shitpost is any more than these useless mods.
totally_human_emdash_user@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 hours ago
All communities become politics communities over time…
socsa@piefed.social 2 hours ago
Everything is politics. Saying “no politics” is politics. The unwillingness to understand this is arguably a huge part of the problem, particularly in democratic systems. Every breath you take from the moment you are born until the moment you die is both a function of, and contributes towards a political zeitgeist which spans centuries in both directions. At best, an individual’s attempt at “avoiding” politics merely cedes a portion of their own agency to others, which again, a political act.
ObtuseDoorFrame@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
Only through apathy. If the mods did their fucking jobs and actually made a rule against political posts, and then enforced that rule, we wouldn’t have this problem.
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
We should savour this moment cause I feel like this would be the only good thing that is gonna come out of these string of events.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Too bad his death had to cost the lives of innocents…
ThunderQueen@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Too be fair, so did his life.
RaoulDuke85@piefed.social 10 hours ago
Bad Luck Ayatollah.
bearboiblake@pawb.social 10 hours ago
I mean, he has been fighting US & Israeli imperialism his entire life, he was an old man with failing health and infamously wanted to be martyred by US/Israel
Fokeu@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
Martyrdom is a fancy word that means death for a made up religion.
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
? People have been martyrs for non-religious causes since forever, man.
SarahValentine@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 hours ago
Someone should tell those suicide bombers that getting bombed while hiding in a bunker counts as martyrdom. Might save them some trouble.
petersr@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Can someone explain the “died on the first day” part?
mech@feddit.org 7 hours ago
He died on the first day of the current US-Israeli attacks on Iran.
petersr@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Ah, I see so even though he has been against them for a long time, the joke is that counting from the actual war start it is just one day.
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Letterman?
clot27@lemmy.zip 54 minutes ago
didnt ran like the rat netanyahu lol
treesquid@lemmy.world 19 minutes ago
He did, as much as he could once he learned shit was going down, but it turns out Iran’s intelligence, air defense and operational security all suck so he died in his bunker. He’s killed almost as many Iranians in a couple months of protests as Netanyahu has killed Palestinians since the Oct 7 attacks. Bibi is absolute trash, but to pretend like Khamenei was better in any way is insane. They’re both completely evil cowards.
clot27@lemmy.zip 8 minutes ago
Sure buddy, thats nice opinion, did epstien give it to you?