justifies civilian casualties.

The entire goal of hasbara is this.

Wtf is that mean. Tunnels aren’t communication devices. Also Hezbollah famously has vast tunnel networks under southern Lebanon.

Historically Hamas has been the amateurs and Hezbollah the pros. Hezbollah has actual victories against the IDF. Hamas’ military success last October was completely unprecedented. Its generally believed that Hezbollah trained Hamas into the fighting force it is now. And since Iran trained Hezbollah you get people claiming Hamas is an Iranian puppet.

Its accepting Israeli propaganda to say that this was a precision strike. This is like using cluster munitions.

Whenever Israel comes up with an idea for an assassination they do it because they can. Its a force of habit for them.

Hezbollah was using commercial grade pagers because they’re a militia. The purpose of pagers are to contact them when their off duty. Many of these pagers blew up in homes, grocery stores, and other public places. Many civilians were killed and most people injured were bystanders.

They should change directors and aesthetics completely when they do the fourth book. Only Jason Mamoa is consistent.

Irrelevant to the point I’m making. We, the US, are the ones starving Venezuelans, not Maduro. Everything else is none of our business.

… but it’s the US imperialism that’s at fault, obviously

It’s literally the direct consequence of US sanctions. That’s the literal goal of sanctions.

I knew Palestine was British at the time I just never heard that the British elites portrayed as evangelicals before. I always clocked them racist imperialists, not zealots trying to bring about the apocalypse.

Also calm the fuck down. I’m not sealioning. I’m legitimately curious. You’re more than welcome to go through my comment history to see I’ve taken a clear stance on Palestinian liberation.

News to me. Is there some source to this?

Early Zionist history is begging the biggest antisemites in the world for their own colony. Zionists made their peace with antisemites along time ago.

and to bring about the end of days

This angle wasn’t a thing until like the 80s.

Not once have I said I’m trying to make the lives of Chinese Gay People easier, I’m saying I care about Gay people in GENERAL

“I don’t care about the material outcome of my words”. Got it.

YOU are the one who’s trying to downplay the Uyghur genocide, so don’t play the “you dont care about muslim lives” card.

Excuse me for objecting more to death, destruction and starvation in Lybia, Iraq, Yemen, and Palestine than draconian oppression and lowered birth rates.

SpaceCowboy? He’s blindly calling everyone who criticizes him a bot in some other comm. Ironically, he’s using copy pasted responses to do this.

Anyways, good to know. I’ll actually report people then. Less stressful.

Still doesnt mean that it doesnt take some gymnastics to blame the imperialists for causing the current government Iran

Simply learning about Mossadegh and Operation Ajax isnt mental gymnastics. You just have to realize that the US never has the interests of the common Iranian in mind and all their talk about bringing freedom to Iran is as bullshit as it was in Iraq.

but to prefer Russia in power over the States is jist blind insanity at this point

We’re going in circles here. You point to Ukraine, I point to Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Gaza. Each of those recent conflicts has caused more destruction than Ukraine. If that seems insane to you then please deeply consider how you came to value Muslim lives so much lower than a Ukrainian.

The States’ secret agencies probably do a lot of political assassinations, but they absolutely dont openly and undeniably assasinate other countries citizens

I’m talking about the drone program which is not much of a secret and is in the hundreds annually.

Russia does with its tea poisoned with a nuclear isotope only Russia makes

It would be so much better if we assassinated our enemies with poison instead of drone striking a packed wedding. You’re just offended by the Bond villain aesthetics when its far more humane than a drone strike.

So theres nothing bigotted about criticizing the US, but any legitimate fingers pointed at China is Sinophobia

Please consider that you are (probably) in the US or at least “the west” and how your criticism of China’s LGBTQ policies actually help those people. It’s the same issue as talking about women’s rights in Iran. I have criticisms of China. Unlike prolewiki, I question if they are still “actually existing socialism”. But all this China bashing is clearly just getting people in line with the US state department.

Noted.

Is Palestinian Genocide denial also not welcome here?

I see you didn’t answer my question and are now pivoting to Russia and China when the subject of the thread is Iran. But I’ll take the time to point out the inconsistencies here:

• currently freaking their neighbors out the most right and the US freaks out nations in other continents. See, Iraq, Vietnam, all of south america.
• As well as openly assasinates citizens of other countries IN said countries? The US does this all over the world at an industrial scale. Are you really unaware of the extent of the drone program?
• China’s track record with LGBTQ rights, I’m sure stoking sinophobia will help them.
• You point at the Uyghurs. I point at the Native Americans, the Palestinians, and all the genocide the colonial empires of NATO have perpetrated. Shall we compare death tolls? Please find me a Uyghur death toll.
• Falong Gong. Are you fucking kidding me? Giving a shit about that trumpist cult has to say is directly injecting Radio Free Asia into your eyeballs.

When did I ever say I don’t have criticisms of Iran? I just see no time wasting my breath on them when my country is constantly threatening war with Iran. If you want to help Iranian progressives then actually learn about Iranian history and what they actually want from western progressives. I’ll give you a hint: its not “fetishize nostalgia for the shah” like this post. It’s usually, “for the love of god please lift the sanctions”.

You would absolutely get brutally tortured and killed for far less under the shah’s rule. What absolute historical ignorance. You’re like a Cuban pining for the days of Bautista.