These sorts of attacks is what the US military has been investing in capacity to complete for decades. This is why there has been an investment bleeding edge tech which costs insane amounts of money to develop.
Kidnapping Maduro didn't accomplish any of their stated objectives in Venezuela. It looks like the White House didn't even confer with energy companies about the viability of expanding their oil production?! They flipped their script immediately afterwards and claimed they won. You'd have to be a doomer to believe it.
It was indeed a stunt, keep in mind that the US spend trillions to maintain an army capable of invading other countries, it's just not convenient for them to do so.
It's more than just inconvenience. The US does not have a good track record fighting prolonged conflicts. They can destroy a country and make millions of people suffer, but they rarely achieve long term objectives.
the US absolutely doesn't control the world, the war in Ukraine and recent attempt at a trade war with China is a great example of just how weak the empire really is. The US failed to subdue Russia and their attempt to cut Russia out of the global economy resulted in a separate economic system forming with increasing amount of trade happening outside western control. Now, global majority is allied with China against the empire, and hence why we see the US desperately lashing out.
The US has hit an inflection point where the cost of maintaining the empire outstrips the plunder. All the forever wars have drained critical resources, while financial capitalism moved essential production overseas. Now the US finds that it has little economic leverage, and its material base is eroded.
the military fully backed him thats why, not like donald planed it out, they did under his general order. that and kidnaping moduro hasn't really changed the country much after hes gone.
No. Most of what Russia does on the world stage is good, it is one of the biggest supporters of many global south countries and one of the few remaining bulwarks preventing US imperialism from running completely roughshod over the global south. For example right now, see Cuba and how Russia is providing support and oil as the US tries to starve them of energy and starve them to death. You may have been taught Putler=Voldemort, but no, Russia at this point is acting largely as a force for good in the world.
And no, our ideas aren't simply "x is bad", without violent resistance we'd have slavery, white women would be chained to the kitchen, workers would have never got a 40h work week, etc. We don't have a consensus on Russia and many will defend it harder because it's funny to piss off people like you, but Russia is nowhere near as bad as the US, and we wouldn't have modern Russia if it weren't for the US as well.
Look at the numbers of people killed just by western sanctions alone, it's over half a million a year. The US has removed democratically elected leaders too many times, like Salvador Allende in Chile or even Mosaddegh. They're starving Cuba RIGHT NOW. But I guess unless mainstream media tells you our lives matter you just don't care.
So yeah, slander us all you want, but we're nothing if not ideologically consistent.
We can play this game forever, my point is that I don't believe you really care about our lives in the global south, considering you seem to ignore that the vast majority of conflicts involving Russia wouldn't have manifested without western imperialism. We lose people all the time through sanctions and regime changes and IMF imposed austerity. We don't celebrate Ukrainian civilians dying, the war that common Ukrainians no longer want to fight won't end as long as the west refuses a deal.
I feel like its a goal of the MIC as it gives them a reason to exist. Use violence, terror, kill civilians to create more enemies and justify more military spending.
Not a good long term strategy, but the orphan crushing machine still has people willing to operate it.
The US generally benefits from depopulating & undeveloping resource rich or strategically marginal areas for coercion, keeping costs down, denial purposes, or just to keeping value chains stable, but this risks blowing up the petrodollar system. I think they might actually be completely insane. What did WarClaude™ tell them?
Yes the goal is 100% super-ISIS they wanted to get this going in Xinjiang and Central Asia. ISIS is actually smart here's the thing. The US benefits from having a higher level of productivity due to advanced technology, and basically cannot survive without laying waste to entire regions to keep them underdeveloped + access resources.
You know how Iran was always months away from nukes? It was. That was the hard liner faction who believed that only nukes would ensure Iran's safety wanting to be able to quickly have one if the fatwa was removed.
Did you not know this? If not, you should stop watching/reading the new sources that didn't tell you this widely available information. They're not new sources but propaganda sources.
Hard to grab good examples in the current state of his Telegram/Twitter/etc. apart from the famous ones like "woman is a flower" and the ones about never ever being mean to your wife (man was a great strategist). This is the vibe though:
I have some older articles saved regarding misconceptions about Iranians having the ISIS misogyny thing going on. Great examples in there. I will dig those up and ping you when I post them. Also should repost stuff like Booker Omole's thoughts on their revolution.
They really are, when I checked out the discussion group for his official Telegram chat, the stuff people were posting surprised me because it was all flower-themed, intensely so. Pink and red petals everywhere. Of course currently it is very death to America but the aesthetic for that is on point as well:
It's sort of a core part of their shield, if great man theory wasn't true they'd have to reckon with the global structures of terror they support instead of just blaming putler and the orange man while screaming vote blue no matter who.
They are worried, but most of them are maintaining tenuous comprador regimes where their ruling classes' finances are firmly linked to the imperial core
He has to at least answer for his pedophilia before he goes up in smoke. And besides, forget the smoke, I want to see him under the guillotine, his head framed as an example of What Not To Do.
At that point he might have just wanted to go out on his own terms, and martyred by the USA are great terms to go out on by his ideology. I wouldn't be surprised if this strengthens the resolve of the true believers.
They are not still in place, they buckled and gave America huge concessions that will not serve them long term.
If Iran's new leadership says "we won't attack Israel again, we'll stop developing weapons to protect ourselves and will only purchase American weapons from now on" that's when you know the regime changed.
Iran is like syria not Venezuela. If the regime ever change they will destroy all what is left of the Iranian military capability, arms more iranians factions to fight other factions and occupy part of Iran
Yes, I agree totally. I wasn't saying that's likely to happen in Iran, I was simply pointing out that Venezuela did have a regime change, a silent coup. The vice president publicly took over and released political prisoners and started cooperating with the CIA and with the US on Venezuela's energy.
I made the mistake of flipping through MSN headlines last night when I went to bed. The first mention if USA invasion of Iran was a Barrons article about what it meant for energy portfolios.
I have no idea what you're talking about. The Iran? USA? Israel?
And why is it fascism? Like a lot of what has happened in the USA was pretty fascist, but starting a war isn't part of the list. There are a few definitions of fascism (e.g. by Adorno), so which one are you using here?
Oh true I'm so aggro rn. I was thinking like the lib conception of having a charismatic leader = personality cult = fascism. I really do love having that argument too much
The people of Iran are rallying around Khamenei for being martyred, and Maduro was democratically elected and supported by the majority. You have a very western viewpoint.
Maduro was democratically elected and supported by the majority.
Forgive my ignorance, but didn't Maduro ban opposition party leaders from campaigning against him?
I'm not saying or agreeing with the orange man, what he did was wrong. It's not our place to intervene in other countries, but this is what I've heard everywhere.
140 Comments
ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com · 172 pts · 175d
Fascist USA and Israel are the biggest threats to world peace. They are the axis of evil.
dessalines@lemmy.ml · 166 pts · 175d
First two months of 2026: The US kidnaps one country's leader, murders another, and kills hundreds of civilians in two failed regime change attempts.
Death to the burger empire.
GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml · 60 pts · 175d
The scary part is how they succeed in their objectives. I'm still not over Maduro's kidnapping and how they pulled it off. It's freakish.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club · 30 pts · 175d
These sorts of attacks is what the US military has been investing in capacity to complete for decades. This is why there has been an investment bleeding edge tech which costs insane amounts of money to develop.
tastemyglaive@lemmy.ml · 30 pts · 175d
Kidnapping Maduro didn't accomplish any of their stated objectives in Venezuela. It looks like the White House didn't even confer with energy companies about the viability of expanding their oil production?! They flipped their script immediately afterwards and claimed they won. You'd have to be a doomer to believe it.
yogthos@lemmy.ml · 22 pts · 175d
Although, it's worth noting that this was largely a stunt. The US did not have the ability to actually invade Venezuela or to topple the government.
brachiosaurus@mander.xyz · 7 pts · 175d
It was indeed a stunt, keep in mind that the US spend trillions to maintain an army capable of invading other countries, it's just not convenient for them to do so.
yogthos@lemmy.ml · 17 pts · 175d
It's more than just inconvenience. The US does not have a good track record fighting prolonged conflicts. They can destroy a country and make millions of people suffer, but they rarely achieve long term objectives.
brachiosaurus@mander.xyz · -2 pts · 175d
I would argue that their long term objectives are usually achieved, USA pretty much control the whole world.
yogthos@lemmy.ml · 15 pts · 175d
the US absolutely doesn't control the world, the war in Ukraine and recent attempt at a trade war with China is a great example of just how weak the empire really is. The US failed to subdue Russia and their attempt to cut Russia out of the global economy resulted in a separate economic system forming with increasing amount of trade happening outside western control. Now, global majority is allied with China against the empire, and hence why we see the US desperately lashing out.
The US has hit an inflection point where the cost of maintaining the empire outstrips the plunder. All the forever wars have drained critical resources, while financial capitalism moved essential production overseas. Now the US finds that it has little economic leverage, and its material base is eroded.
brachiosaurus@mander.xyz · 13 pts · 175d
US government spends more than a trillion dollar on war each year.
Smaile@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 175d
the military fully backed him thats why, not like donald planed it out, they did under his general order. that and kidnaping moduro hasn't really changed the country much after hes gone.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 175d
The real battle happens before any shots are fired.
tastemyglaive@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 175d
Weed turns you into a bot if you don't take breaks #nothatingjustsaying
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 175d
You'd be surprised how long dead ideas live
rafoix@lemmy.zip · 17 pts · 175d
Can they really be a “threat” when they’re actively killing people all over the world?
queermunist@lemmy.ml · 33 pts · 175d
Yeah, more accurately they are the active enemies of world peace.
ripcord@lemmy.world · -6 pts · 175d
tastemyglaive@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 175d
MaeBorowski@lemmy.ml · -8 pts · 175d
No. Most of what Russia does on the world stage is good, it is one of the biggest supporters of many global south countries and one of the few remaining bulwarks preventing US imperialism from running completely roughshod over the global south. For example right now, see Cuba and how Russia is providing support and oil as the US tries to starve them of energy and starve them to death. You may have been taught Putler=Voldemort, but no, Russia at this point is acting largely as a force for good in the world.
ripcord@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 175d
When they stop murdering children in Ukraine, which they can do literally any time they want, then I'll be more inclined to believe you.
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -6 pts · 175d
orc_princess@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 175d
We live in your head rent free huh.
And no, our ideas aren't simply "x is bad", without violent resistance we'd have slavery, white women would be chained to the kitchen, workers would have never got a 40h work week, etc. We don't have a consensus on Russia and many will defend it harder because it's funny to piss off people like you, but Russia is nowhere near as bad as the US, and we wouldn't have modern Russia if it weren't for the US as well.
Look at the numbers of people killed just by western sanctions alone, it's over half a million a year. The US has removed democratically elected leaders too many times, like Salvador Allende in Chile or even Mosaddegh. They're starving Cuba RIGHT NOW. But I guess unless mainstream media tells you our lives matter you just don't care.
So yeah, slander us all you want, but we're nothing if not ideologically consistent.
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -5 pts · 175d
orc_princess@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 175d
We can play this game forever, my point is that I don't believe you really care about our lives in the global south, considering you seem to ignore that the vast majority of conflicts involving Russia wouldn't have manifested without western imperialism. We lose people all the time through sanctions and regime changes and IMF imposed austerity. We don't celebrate Ukrainian civilians dying, the war that common Ukrainians no longer want to fight won't end as long as the west refuses a deal.
Greddan@feddit.org · -6 pts · 175d
jellygoose@lemmy.ca · -6 pts · 175d
LMFAO
dessalines@lemmy.ml · 92 pts · 175d
Today the US and Israel bombed and killed 85 people (mostly children) in an all girls primary school.
Death to amerikkka
queermunist@lemmy.ml · 89 pts · 175d
Hmm yes I think I will remove the respected leader that opposed Iran having a nuclear weapons program. 👀
The martyr is immortal, so what exactly does the US think it's going to accomplish here?
F_State@midwest.social · 62 pts · 175d
That was widely expected to die soon of natural causes anyway
tastemyglaive@lemmy.ml · 56 pts · 175d
In a society that reveres martyrdom above all else 🤔
dessalines@lemmy.ml · 41 pts · 175d
I feel like its a goal of the MIC as it gives them a reason to exist. Use violence, terror, kill civilians to create more enemies and justify more military spending.
Not a good long term strategy, but the orphan crushing machine still has people willing to operate it.
tastemyglaive@lemmy.ml · 16 pts · 175d
The US generally benefits from depopulating & undeveloping resource rich or strategically marginal areas for coercion, keeping costs down, denial purposes, or just to keeping value chains stable, but this risks blowing up the petrodollar system. I think they might actually be completely insane. What did WarClaude™ tell them?
davel@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 175d
W.O.C.R. War Operation Claude Response
Pissed@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 175d
totesmygoat@piefed.ca · 18 pts · 175d
Well they created isis last time they displayed their level of stupidity. This time... Super isis?
tastemyglaive@lemmy.ml · 16 pts · 175d
Yes the goal is 100% super-ISIS they wanted to get this going in Xinjiang and Central Asia. ISIS is actually smart here's the thing. The US benefits from having a higher level of productivity due to advanced technology, and basically cannot survive without laying waste to entire regions to keep them underdeveloped + access resources.
Read Value Chains it's great https://annas-archive.li/md5/0ca2108287828ca6508816b7ecbe9a3e
flandish@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 175d
profit. it’s always about profit.
dessalines@lemmy.ml · 85 pts · 175d
They also bombed and killed several members of his family, including his daughter, granddaughter, and son in law.
Maeve@kbin.earth · 40 pts · 175d
The Greatest Satan. Thanks for confirming, comrade. I don't believe USA/Isntrael without confirmation from non-liars.
dessalines@lemmy.ml · 28 pts · 175d
No probs, same. If it's a "trump says" source, then it's immediately sus and we need at least a confirmation from the other side.
yogthos@lemmy.ml · 81 pts · 175d
Khamenei was the main reason Iran did not develop nuclear weapons up to now. With him gone, that becomes a much more likely scenario.
Viceversa@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 175d
How?
geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml · 55 pts · 175d
Khamenei issued a religieus ruling against developing nukes
Viceversa@lemmy.world · -18 pts · 175d
But they were still enriching uranium covertly. How's that?
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de · 44 pts · 175d
Nuclear power?
tastemyglaive@lemmy.ml · 29 pts · 175d
Having enough 60% enriched uranium to make a thermonuclear bomb if they change the ruling ≠ weaponizing their nuclear program
Count042@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 174d
Because Iran wasn't a dictatorship.
It had factions.
You know how Iran was always months away from nukes? It was. That was the hard liner faction who believed that only nukes would ensure Iran's safety wanting to be able to quickly have one if the fatwa was removed.
Did you not know this? If not, you should stop watching/reading the new sources that didn't tell you this widely available information. They're not new sources but propaganda sources.
Viceversa@lemmy.world · -5 pts · 174d
Isn't ayatollah the supreme leader?
Count042@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 174d
Isn't the president the executive branch?
Jesus Christ, do you have any critical thinking skills?
Viceversa@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 174d
As far as I know, ayatollah is entitled to command all leaders of all branches.
That's why he's called the supreme leader.
It's not true?
frippa@lemmy.ml · 66 pts · 175d
Results of the imperialist aggression:
An 86 year old dead
150 school children vaporized
Regime is still there
American bases in the zone turned to rubble
Strait of hormuz closed
frisbird@lemmy.ml · 26 pts · 174d
86 year old AND 2 subsequent generations of his bloodline - his daughter and his granddaughter
anotherspinelessdem@lemmy.ml · 14 pts · 174d
Will the americans ever tire of all this winning?
selokichtli@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 174d
Not dead, martyrized.
davel@lemmy.ml · 40 pts · 175d
Whelp.
He was 86. I don’t know to what extent he was still in charge. It may have been anywhere from still fully in charge to just a figurehead.
Mrkawfee@feddit.uk · 36 pts · 175d
That psychotic demon netanyahu needs to be sent back to Lucifer.
Count042@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 174d
Seeing rumors that he is. The hypersonic missile wave was targetting a bunker he was believed to be in.
Still just rumors though.
EDIT: sadly, he is alive.
Cowbee@lemmy.ml · 36 pts · 175d
Rest in peace. May the US Empire and its dogs crumble.
hoch@lemmy.world · -19 pts · 175d
He's probably resting in pieces, not peace.
BrainInABox@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 174d
Go back to reddit
SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml · 30 pts · 175d
The first thing to die in war is the truth.
floofloof@lemmy.ca · 32 pts · 175d
Truth and more than 80 elementary school girls.
Pissed@lemmy.ml · 13 pts · 175d
SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml · 15 pts · 175d
That regime has been practicing for this very day for DECADES. They have plans B, C, D, E, F, and G on the books.
tastemyglaive@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 175d
In this case, truth primarily in the form of marriage advice. Have you seen his actual posts?
Maeve@kbin.earth · 5 pts · 175d
No. Enlighten me, please.
tastemyglaive@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 175d
Hard to grab good examples in the current state of his Telegram/Twitter/etc. apart from the famous ones like "woman is a flower" and the ones about never ever being mean to your wife (man was a great strategist). This is the vibe though:
I have some older articles saved regarding misconceptions about Iranians having the ISIS misogyny thing going on. Great examples in there. I will dig those up and ping you when I post them. Also should repost stuff like Booker Omole's thoughts on their revolution.
Maeve@kbin.earth · 6 pts · 175d
Those are really sweet spirited. I wonder how he was IRL.
Edit also thank you. Sorry. They made me want to cry.
tastemyglaive@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 175d
They really are, when I checked out the discussion group for his official Telegram chat, the stuff people were posting surprised me because it was all flower-themed, intensely so. Pink and red petals everywhere. Of course currently it is very death to America but the aesthetic for that is on point as well:
Maeve@kbin.earth · 5 pts · 175d
I saw that. Extremely appropos.
Pissed@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 175d
tastemyglaive@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 175d
Bad things like delaying the development of a thermonuclear anti-Tel Aviv device. For sure for sure
Pissed@lemmy.ml · -3 pts · 175d
Pissed@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 175d
tastemyglaive@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 175d
No I mean the cleric
TheOubliette@lemmy.ml · 29 pts · 174d
Liberals truly believe Great Man Theory
QinShiHuangsShlong@lemmy.ml · 30 pts · 174d
It's sort of a core part of their shield, if great man theory wasn't true they'd have to reckon with the global structures of terror they support instead of just blaming putler and the orange man while screaming vote blue no matter who.
veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 26 pts · 175d
So the US has taken action against two heads of state in two months, and the rest of the world is not at all worried?
I mean, if fair is fair, this should be a free-for-all, so I'd be all for Netanyahu, Bbukele and Putin going up in smoke next.
tastemyglaive@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 175d
They are worried, but most of them are maintaining tenuous comprador regimes where their ruling classes' finances are firmly linked to the imperial core
selokichtli@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 175d
Trump's safe in your book?
veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 175d
He has to at least answer for his pedophilia before he goes up in smoke. And besides, forget the smoke, I want to see him under the guillotine, his head framed as an example of What Not To Do.
wurzelgummidge@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 175d
His owners will get rid of him when he is no longer useful. At the moment he is the clown face emoji they all sign themselves off with
geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml · 18 pts · 175d
They actually let him stay in his house? Did they want him as a martyr or something?
hamid@crazypeople.online · 37 pts · 175d
He was 86 years old and dying. I'd want to stay in my own house too
anotherspinelessdem@lemmy.ml · 31 pts · 175d
At that point he might have just wanted to go out on his own terms, and martyred by the USA are great terms to go out on by his ideology. I wouldn't be surprised if this strengthens the resolve of the true believers.
tastemyglaive@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 171d
He was just chilling and celebrating Ramadan with his family and did not allow them to interrupt him with mere words, this was his choice.
njm1314@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 175d
Well war over now right? Trump said the goal was regime change. We'll mission accomplished. Right?
Zaktor@sopuli.xyz · 13 pts · 175d
In the model of Venezuela as long as the actual top leader isn't in charge anymore, it's regime change.
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club · 2 pts · 175d
It's a "win" & a "peace".
mrdown@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 175d
The regime is not one person not to say that trump would not find more excuses if the regime really fall
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 174d
If it is in Venezuela why not Iran?
mrdown@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 174d
what do you mean. Venezuela regime is still in place
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 174d
Exactly, so what would be different about Iran is what I mean
mrdown@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 174d
because Iran is the biggest threat to Israel colonial ambition and they do not want another 1979
3abas@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 174d
They are not still in place, they buckled and gave America huge concessions that will not serve them long term.
If Iran's new leadership says "we won't attack Israel again, we'll stop developing weapons to protect ourselves and will only purchase American weapons from now on" that's when you know the regime changed.
mrdown@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 174d
Iran is like syria not Venezuela. If the regime ever change they will destroy all what is left of the Iranian military capability, arms more iranians factions to fight other factions and occupy part of Iran
3abas@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 174d
Yes, I agree totally. I wasn't saying that's likely to happen in Iran, I was simply pointing out that Venezuela did have a regime change, a silent coup. The vice president publicly took over and released political prisoners and started cooperating with the CIA and with the US on Venezuela's energy.
SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 175d
Americans love bravado. This will be millions of Republican votes.
st3ph3n@midwest.social · 15 pts · 175d
Watch them lose their fucking minds when the price of gas goes up.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 175d
Gas is expensive. Life is cheap.
tastemyglaive@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 175d
Wait for the market to open
Maeve@kbin.earth · 9 pts · 175d
I made the mistake of flipping through MSN headlines last night when I went to bed. The first mention if USA invasion of Iran was a Barrons article about what it meant for energy portfolios.
Pissed@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 175d
F_State@midwest.social · 13 pts · 175d
They're wrong with regularity
Pissed@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 175d
orc_princess@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 175d
They lied several times about just this with a previous leader lol
tastemyglaive@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 175d
There was enough confusion that Reuters initially walked it back while the death of his family members was confirmed.
Pissed@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 175d
tastemyglaive@lemmy.ml · 15 pts · 175d
Pissed@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 175d
ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca · 1 pts · 175d
PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 175d
Furbag@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 173d
Xorg_Broke_Again@sh.itjust.works · -2 pts · 175d
This is literally fascism.
flying_sheep@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 175d
I have no idea what you're talking about. The Iran? USA? Israel?
And why is it fascism? Like a lot of what has happened in the USA was pretty fascist, but starting a war isn't part of the list. There are a few definitions of fascism (e.g. by Adorno), so which one are you using here?
What do you mean, I'm really confused here.
tastemyglaive@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 175d
Define fascism
umbrella@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 175d
tastemyglaive@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 175d
Oh true I'm so aggro rn. I was thinking like the lib conception of having a charismatic leader = personality cult = fascism. I really do love having that argument too much
umbrella@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 174d
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · -5 pts · 175d
Humanity
tastemyglaive@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 175d
Naw it's more fun to get historical with it
Cowbee@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 175d
Iran, or the US and Israel killing Khamenei?
super_user_do@feddit.it · -7 pts · 174d
Cowbee@lemmy.ml · 17 pts · 174d
The people of Iran are rallying around Khamenei for being martyred, and Maduro was democratically elected and supported by the majority. You have a very western viewpoint.
VinnyDaCat@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 174d
Forgive my ignorance, but didn't Maduro ban opposition party leaders from campaigning against him?
I'm not saying or agreeing with the orange man, what he did was wrong. It's not our place to intervene in other countries, but this is what I've heard everywhere.
Cowbee@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 174d
Haven't seen anything like that, but it wouldn't surprise me if western-backed orgs were targeted.