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[-] mrdown@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago
[-] Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 months ago

right? that was just a general statement that someone's doing a bad thing.

zero claims were made in this tiny snippet of a much longer conversation

[-] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

In the part where Iraq must be liberated from the evil dictator for freedom and Democracy.

Iran shut down US-Israeli backed terrorists. Not whatever fairy tale AOC is propagating.

[-] mrdown@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

You can be against foreign interference while not whitewashing human right abuses.

[-] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Would you say the same thing if Iran backed a massive terror network in the US which started massacaring people and set US infrastructure on fire?

[-] mrdown@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

If the USA was an authoritarian country and was oppressing the opposition and another country want to start a war with them under that pretext but their real intention is a failed state then yet I would say the USA is doing human right abuses but it doesn't justify foreign intervention .

The same human right organizations that expose Israel human right abuses are also show that human right abuses exists in Iran

[-] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Thank you for this great lesson on victim blaming and both sides nonsense. Do not forget to condemn Hamas while you are at it.

[-] mrdown@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

If I said Israel and the USA had the right to interfere I would be both siding and victim blaming but I didn't say that. Iran has the right to defend itself against the terrorist state of Israel and the United Snakes . No amount of human right abuses from Iran will change my stand. Hamas is a resistance group that should not disarm until the occupation end , it doesn't mean I should support when they kill civilians and when they kill civilians it doesn't mean they can no longer defend Gaza and fight against the genocidal force

[-] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Terrorists armed with AK47s, machetes and molotovs are civilians now? Okay lol.

[-] mrdown@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

No those armed with AK47s, machetes and molotovs are terrorists but there is videos of pro government people beating unarmed people too those are civlians

[-] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

No there are not. Iran let the protesters protest freely until their movement was hijacked by US-Israeli backed terrorists with guns and molotovs which commenced the terror attacks.

From then Iran rightfully imposed a ban from organizing or participating in the riots.

[-] mrdown@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

From then Iran rightfully imposed a ban from organizing or participating in the riots.

Legitimate protesters still has the right to continue protesting while the terrorists backed by the terrorist state of israel and the united snakes should be arrested just like when people protested the Vietnam war it was wrong to ban all protests because of a minority of violent people

[-] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

No they do not. There was no "violent minority" of protesters here but heavily armed terrorists shooting civilians, police and burning down infrastructure in organised foreign led terror operations to literally violently topple the government. It is every lie the US uses to justify their crackdown on protesters but it is actually real in Iran.

You are applying completely ridiculous standards to the Iranian government which had been very amicable to protests for protests caused by the US and Israel to begin with.

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/2/13/us-says-it-caused-dollar-shortage-to-trigger-iran-protests-what-that-means

[-] mrdown@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Iran never gave an estimate of the number of violent protesters and I said that the violent rioters are terrorist backed by Israel and should be arrested . I am applying the same standard for all countries .

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/2/13/us-says-it-caused-dollar-shortage-to-trigger-iran-protests-what-that-means

Did I ever denied this ?

[-] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Iran did. Around 600 of the 2400 people who died were violent terrorists. The 2400 including Iranian government employees and other people killed by the terrorists.

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