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So let me get this straight. Because one of the countries in this war is comitting genocide, the other country MUST be a victim of the war? Was the Soviet Union a victim when Germany attacked them?
No. Israel is committing genocide. We all fucking know this, no need to point it out. Iran is a theorcratic rule that tortures people for holding hands with the wrong sex. They regard women as household items. Iran is not a fucking victim. The iranian government needs to fucking suffer violently, preferably by the hands of their own people, but Israel will do.
...Really? That's the comparison you're gonna go with?
Yes. Were they?
Is that what I said?
Yes. You asked who is comitting genocide in an attempt to shut me up, because you thought the side that commits genocide must inherently be the bad person in any situation. Seen in the context that I said not to frame Iran as a victim, this attempt to contradict me must mean you think Iran IS the victim here. They aren't. Now pack up your bullshit attempt to backtrack, and try to argue like an adult.
Oh wow, I didn't even realize that I said all of that in my short comment 🙄.
I said nothing about Iran being a "victim," so please take your strawman elsewhere.
Israel is actively committing genocide, Iran is not. It's that fucking simple.
They're both bad, but one is clearly worse here.
Okay, well there's something called context. When you comment on something within a certain context appearing contradicting, it's reasonable to assume you're contradicting that certain context. My comment was only and completely about Iran not being a victim, when you comment something that appears to want to be contradicting, it would seem you're trying to prove that Iran is in fact a victim.
You must understand this is the zeitgeist. The entirety of the Middle East are victims, including mullahs, Taliban, autocrats and sheikhs. Crazy how people can't at least view it from two sides or in grey tones.
I won't disagree that the Western-led world order has created instability in the region and worldview, but I sincerely doubt that an Islamic world order would be in any way better. Most are just jealous that they don't get to do the exploitation
You guys just can't not strawman... Nobody here fucking said that (in this specific thread at least, can't speak to others).
Side note: As an American citizen, Iran has done nothing to harm me in any way, and has never been a legitimate threat to my safety for the entire time I've been alive. Aside from being told my entire life to hate them, I've seen no reason to.
On the other hand, Israel is literally committing a second Holocaust.
My parents are refugees from Iran. They've done us plenty. And now I see Westerners talking like Iran is the saviour of the Middle East and that the regime is a poor victim of Western imperialism. Israel is a terror state but so is Iran. No innocent people should ever be bombed, and every civilian is a victim of greedy old men getting young men murdered for resources or pride - but it does piss me off to continuously see people who don't understand the region whatsoever form strong opinions on it based on Tiktok and Gaza.
You need to stop putting words in people's mouths... I have seen nobody here with that view.
There's a thing called "nuance." Rarely, if ever, is anything on the world stage black and white.
So when I say Israel is worse than Iran, and that Iran has done nothing to me as an American, I'm not saying they're "the savior of the middle east." Not even close. Nothing I've said implies that in any way.
I'm not even talking about you, am I? This idea is literally everywhere I look by Westerners who can't find their own assholes. If calling these twisted points of view out is a problem for you then deal with that.
That they haven't done anything to you is irrelevant. Israel hasn't either. In fact no one has, since America is the global state supreme.