From what I can tell, Iran executed about 2 people per year for being LGBT (exact stats are hard to find). The USA killed 32 trans people alone last year. Was that not because of religion?

Do you realise how unhinged you are? I’m not a fan of Theocracies either, but I’m not about to condone invading and murdering them to get my way. I think you might have read too much propaganda about this instance. We are not in favour of mass murder.

It’s your exact logic that led to the colonisation of the Americas. The natives were a bunch of savages with primitive beliefs, so they needed to be conquered and forced to adopt Christianity. You’re taking it a step further, but it’s all still the same energy. You can’t go around conquering countries and murdering people because of their religion.

The US has done this through its history, and all it’s done is destabilise the world, and cause millions of deaths. Iran’s current government was created in response to US meddling.

If you have a difference of opinion with someone, your first thought can’t be to kill them. That’s psychotic.

No, I think I understand you clearly. You want to dictate internal policies to any country that disagrees with your world view by sending in the tanks to cause murder and destruction.

And I don’t believe for a second that you would be in favour of someone doing it to the USA, because the USA is clearly not theocratic in any way, right?

Just to be clear, you are advocating invading any foreign countries with theocratic tendencies to replace their governments with one of your choosing? Does this also include Christian countries? Or just Muslims? Animists? Pagans?

Why won’t those Iranians just bend the knee? Then they wouldn’t have to be killed!

I think what infuriates me the most about the article though is how it portrays Iran as just being this thug who randomly attacks shipping for no reason whatsoever, and needs a beatdown for it. That sort of thing should be trivial for anyone to see through.

Reminds me of a comment I read on Reddit once. A user was shocked that a fuel air bomb was used in Ukraine. He understood that “The Americans had used them in Afghanistan or whatever, but this was in Europe!”.

I get that redditors love in an echo chamber. But diplomats should be well aware that there’s two sides to the story. I seriously do not understand why they continue to insist upon hounding people to condemn Russia. They HAVE to know that the rest of the world is sick to death of their interference. The expectation that the rest of the world would be upset when someone else interfered with the west’s interests is just narcissistic beyond belief.

Yet here we are.

He sounds dreamy. But nope, not for this girl.

Seems like an alright time to me. I wouldn’t really want to be a celebrity personally, but it sounds like he was happy with how things worked out.

I noted that bit as well. The whole article could have easily been written by one of us (aside from the swipes at the Soviet Union of course). It’s weird as hell hearing it from them, given how much they’ve screeched at us for the last few years for not supporting NATO.

Absolutely. But it’s the best I’ve seen in 3 years.

I said starting, not that this article was some shining light in the darkness. It’s kinda more like a lit match. But things like this give me some hope:

But they remember, too, the long history of western countries as imperialists and invaders. Nor do they fail to realise that we care far more about fellow Europeans than about others.

Whataboutism!

(But seriously, it’s heartening to see that the capitalists are finally starting to realise the problem here.)