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[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 days ago (9 children)

Nah dog. We ain't cheering. We eating popcorn.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 days ago (12 children)

No sympathy for either except civilians caught in between.

The best thing in this is that Russia may receive less drones from Iran used to bombard Ukraine, so that makes me happy

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (10 children)

Supporting Iran limits the ability of Israel to commit to their genocide, support Israel only enhances their capability to genocide and supporting neither only benefits Israel which make use of their partnership with the west

Hate Iran all you want, despise them, that's fine, but we need to pick anything at this point when the alternative is Israel

It might be better for the gays in Israel, but what about the gays in Palestine, or simply the people within Gaza?

You can reform a state to treat gay people like humans, you can't reform a genocidal state

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (11 children)

There is concept on the left called "critical support" it broadly means we agree with that one thing you are doing, but we also do not agree with other things.

In this case we can say: For sure killing LGBTQ+ people is not good, but striking a country that is currently carrying out a genocide is a good thing.

P.S. if you have better source for critical support please send.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Meaning Isreal is behaving worse than them

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Fun fact. Irans executions of gay people in its entire history didn't happen until after the Islamic revolution. Before then and all the way even before the rise of Islam, whatever state that occupied Iran now all had harsh laws against homosexuals...

But enforced none. Not during pre-Roman times, Roman times, early Islamic era, medieval Islamic era, modern Islamic era. None. Not until the 80s did it happen.

It means Iran absolutely can return to a time when homosexuals were at least ignored by the law.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Isreal is backing the party that wants to do that in my country. Fuck em

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 4 days ago (3 children)

If one tribe is bad, the other one must automatically be the good one.

There can never be such a thing as TWO bad tribes fighting each other.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Are we confusing governments for the civilians who live under their rule?

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Thanks to Project 2025, the USA is not far behind Iran.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Iran has multiple orders of magnitude on its hands - gay or otherwise - than any country that supports Israel.

If you can understand why people cheered on the British Empire during World War Two - even though it was one of the most brutal, genocidal entities in history - but can't understand why people would critically support Iran now, you are just a white supremacist.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Yeah watching Iran and Israel fight I don't really feel bad for either side. Does suck for the civilians in the middle though.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Did you know you can do both? Cheer the dick holes getting bombed by the dick holes? True story. Cheering dick holes is bad mmmkay.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

yeah yeah let's go war! morons. USA executes poor people, gay or not. how is that for equality and representation?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

I'm not cheering for either of them and wish they both get what they deserve.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I'm somewhere along the lines of "I just hope both teams have fun", but the opposite of that

Wishing both sides a very happy total collapse of their existing state

[–] Tiger666 33 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The people of Iran do not deserve this. They are under religious authoritarian rule and suffer every day at the hands of these brutes.

Israel on the other hand has many people that support genocide against the Palestinians.

I hope none of the resistance in Israel get hurt or are displaced. I hope no innocent civilians get hurt or are displaced in Iran.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 4 days ago

It seems to me this is yet another distraction scheme? Make the people supporting gay rights and the people opposing Israel's cruelty angry at each other?

Don't be fooled. Israel is throwing bombs at civilians regularly because it doesn't even think of Palestinians as humans!

If Israel really stands for "Western values", then i want nothing to do with them. If they throw bombs at innocent people, then they undermine their own credibility and don't deserve to have a say in the world's politics.

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