Ay yes, Iran, so progressive
Yes this is what the Iranian government y'all god-damn mental broads are cheering on does
Disgusting
this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2025
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I don't think people are cheering on Iran, I think they're cheering for Israel to be on the receiving side of violence for once.
So.. all the other times Israel has been on the receiving end of violence are what exactly? Not worth it? Why, pray tell, those times do not count specifically?
Is there a particular characteristic of the Israeli population that makes those times not count for your metrics?
And theyre also cheering on Iran, hence the meme.
If a country that was more progressive than the US (not hard to find one) started bombing the shit out of New York City, would you be like “well, they deserve it for their transphobia”?
Do you realize that Orthodox Jews consider women to be inferior to men? Like, they won’t even shake a woman’s hand.
Sacha Baron Cohen, Zionist shithead though he is, actually got chased down the street in Israel by an angry mob for playing his flamboyant gay character Bruno. He had to yell “I’m a Jew I’m a Jew” to keep from getting the shit kicked out of him.
Israel is literally committing genocide RIGHT NOW. I’m sure there are plenty of gay, trans, nonbinary Palestinians who have head their limbs blown off, if that’s really what upsets you.
The genocide apologism is so obvious it’s sad. You point to one issue that will make liberals go “oh no, scary Muslims!” and you run with that. Fix your heart.
I'm not "apologizing for genocide", I'm pointing out that people cheering on a state that tortures atheists and LGBT people is wrong. Fix your head.
It's useless. Lemmy is full of these self righteous shitheads and they'll neve stop constructing fake arguments so they can be condescending d*cks about it.
You guys also realize gay people in Gaza are also persecuted, right?
Purity politics needs to end. Some of you MFs need to learn strategy, and play a game like Civ. If Iran harasses Israel, bully for us. Two of the worst people we know are now fighting, we should celebrate this reprieve.
Exactly. It's possible to see a fight between two drunk idiots and just hope that they both get hurt and nobody else does.
We don't have to take sides unless you know one of them personally.
And I don't know either of these cunts.
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Purity politics is the only kind some people understand.
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No one is cheering for "Iran". They are cheering for a country standing up for itself against an aggressive colonizing force bent on expansionism through violent actions currently engaged in unwarranted genocide.
Yeah no, I've seen people are cheering for Iran, hence the meme.
A country which happens to be Iran, another perpetuator of genocides
Someone can be an ally of circumstances, it doesn't mean we don't oppose them anymore. It just means we have a common enemy
Currently? Does one genocide beget another? Is one more okay than another? Is Iran running around trying to take over it's neighbours? Sit down.
Iran literally funded, trained and protected the Taliban for years so they could take over Afghanistan as soon as the Western troops left. So yes, Iran is running around trying to take over its neighbours!
yeah yeah let's go war! morons. USA executes poor people, gay or not. how is that for equality and representation?
Is the Iran regime bad? Yes. Are they colonial outpost that is actively committing genocide? No. Are the Iranian people settlers like the Israelis? No.
Who is dragging the US into war with Iran and potentially WW3? Israel.
Does this help maybe?
But Israel is not expanding into Iran or bombing civilian areas (yet). If we're purely talking about Israel - Iran conflict, you have to do some serious brain gymnastics to wish for IRGC to win. Best outcome here is the fall of Iranian islamic regime and people can take back their freedom
I have no clue how much this will hurt Israel, but I have my doubts the pain will be big.
If we’re purely talking about Israel - Iran conflict, you have to do some serious brain gymnastics
You have to do at least as much gymnastics to ignore the context surrounding this conflict though.
Nuclear weapons?
You can be gay in Iran you just need to register as a tranny
It’s called critical support. I can support both Iran’s self-defense from genocidal maniacs while simultaneously criticizing them for their human rights abuses. It’s something that people with a functioning brain can do - hold two ideas in their head at once.
Besides, Israel has killed more gay people in the last year just through sheer numbers of the people they’ve exterminated than Iran has ever.
There's a difference between carpet bombing an entire country (also not defensible) and deliberately removing gay people from your population using the legal system.
Yes, and carpet bombing is entirely more evil. Iran is the lesser of two evils here. Isn’t that what liberals said we should always strive for? The lesser of two evils?
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i find a lot of queer people have the same issues as feminist white women, “which is how can i make this about me?”
What about Israel, a country that literally executes an entire nation of people, the Palestinians?
Is OP saying "support Israël instead" ?
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In this conflict I learned to take no side, except the one of the victims who didn't ask to be involved.
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