liberals never went to war with Iran for the regime change

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has repeatedly intervened in the internal affairs of Iran, from the Mosaddegh coup of 1953 to the present day.

From military coups to political assassinations to stuxnet computer viruses, we’ve been launching and directing military operations against Iran for over 70 years.

Hillary does not seem all that liberal to me

She and her husband have been in leadership within the liberal party of the largest liberal government on earth for… what? 16 of the last 24 years?

If they’re not liberal, who is?

the media was not even liberal to begin with

Liberals have been eager for regime change in Iran for as long as their conservative peers.

Bombing Tehran is one of the few things Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump can agree on.

Wow, this is exactly what Neoconservatives dating back to the Nixon Administration Vladimir Putin has always wanted

if i rob and kill my elderly neighbor to steal their stuff to help pay rent

It’s rob the neighbor or be the neighbor that gets robbed.

This isn’t a real choice from a material sense. It’s selection bias. You’re mad at a random sampling of people forced into a Sofie’s Choice, rather than the fascists forcing this choice on them.

You’ll always look stupid defending Putin.

Evangelicals have The Devil and Liberals have Vladimir Putin.

The GOP has wanted to bomb Iran since Bush 41. The whole party, and much of the American business community, is fully in his corner.

Hell, even Democrats are throwing in their support.

Israel’s Accomplice

his buddy Putin

American President surrounded by American generals and senators and tech CEOs doing a very American war in the Middle East as Americanly as you please

“Evil Foreigners made him do it”

westboro

Deliberately instigated violent opposition so they could press and collect on civil lawsuits.

Many members of the group are trained lawyers, including founder Fred Phelps, and they have historically filed hundreds of lawsuits—mostly over picket rights and alleged civil rights violations—aiming to secure settlements or court-awarded legal fees.

They were quite literally professional trolls. Baiting people into attacking them by criticizing dead soldiers had nothing to do with ideology. It was purely part of their grift.

I mean, it’s double edged.

You’ve got folks in desperate poverty for whom enlistment is designed as a release valve.

But then you’re being paid to crush people more desperate than you.

So do you want to be the half of lumpen labor paid to do the killing or the half that’s being killed? I don’t like the people doing the killing, but I can’t blame from for not wanting to be on the other side of the barrel. There’s no good choice to be made when you’re in the bottom rung of the social order.

At the end of the day, what we really need is a mid level officer’s revolt. Where is the American Chavez? Where is the American Gaddafi?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Cherokee_War

The actual Europeans were not always that horrible

Trying to explain this in Cherokee.

If Spain doesn’t get in line on the Iran War, I’m confident we’re going to start getting stories about how we need to liberate Catalonia soon enough

This is very similar to the Native American genocide.

The one where Colonial European settlers were literally marching into Indian communities and massacring them?

None of that matters.

This is not a fact based discussion, it is a Two Minute Hate.

Once we’re done here, we’ll be off to posting Iranian girls in bikinis while screaming “This is what Islam took from us”

Don’t the US, Canada, and Australia have similar laws?

Yes, but all these countries have politicians who say they feel bad about it

Historically, it’s been a largely regional split with Cantonese in the West and Mandarin in the East.

China’s been something of an outlayer in supporting as many languages as it does.

Iran is scheduled to play three group-stage matches beginning on 11 June, including fixtures against New Zealand and Belgium in Los Angeles, followed by a match against Egypt in Seattle.

The comments come after Iran’s sports minister, Ahmad Donyamali, said the team would not take part in the tournament following the US-Israeli war on Iran.

“Considering that this corrupt regime has assassinated our leader, under no circumstances can we participate in the World Cup,” he said.

Amazing how a six paragraph long article managed to bury the lead.

paywalled article…

Here ya go!

It’s not controversial to want to go after fraud in the system.

It’s highly controversial when the people claiming to investigate fraud are themselves doing fraud.

This is exactly what happened with DOGE, as well. Thiel’s goon squad walked into the beating heart of the executive bureaucracy to start siphoning data and cancelling checks. They’d point at something, say “Fraud!”, stop payments, steal a bunch of personal information, slander random people, fire anyone with a spine thick enough to stand up against them, and then cut themselves giant contractors’ salaries for the privilege.

Reagan had his own variation on this, most notably via Iran-Contra (effectively a massive embezzlement of foreign procured drugs and US military surplus funds), but also via Sewergate, the various lootings of Pentagon, FEMA, and HUD funds, and the mass firing of FAA agents under J. Lynn Helms. All these scandals were downwind of Reaganite claims of corruption, which his appointees were supposed to solve but instead exploited or exacerbated.

This has been true going straight back to the Nixon Administration. The conservative “we’re getting rid of the fraud” playbook is three generations old at this point. They run it, because it works pretty much every time.

People hear “fraud”, they see an AI generated image of a young black man in a pimp outfit driving a Cadillac, and they slam the “GOP Forever” button.