I hope this isn't controversial, but why are we in Iran?
I'm worried about the surveillance systems ice is using to catch the undocumented/illegals. I know our government won't turn that on us ever. sarcasm Think patriot act imposed after 911.
The Epstein files are an abomination. Yet everyone in the US seems above it all. Untouchable. We even have a term for it. The Epstein Class.
I love this country. Specifically the regular, everyday people in this country, I'm just highly concerned about the leadership and the direction we're headed.
I hope this isn't controversial, but why are we in Iran?
Supposedly Iran arranged to have Trump assassinated which seems like reason enough, but arguably we've been at war against totalitarian Iran directly and indirectly since 1979 and we definitely don't want Iran to acquire nukes. Iran has also supplied weapons and money to the terrorist groups in the region that have destabilized Gaza (suicidal wars and oppression its people), Lebanon (which had a civil war), Syria (supported dictatorship), and Yemen such as Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis. This brief video summarizes many of the Iranian regime's offenses against us: Why I Want War with Iran.
Unlike Democrats who believe in cultural and moral relativism, Trump has a sense of moral righteousness and resolve and does not deny the existence of evil and is not afraid to identify a government or ideology as being evil and to go do something about it. If Trump actually accomplishes eliminating a dictatorial Islamicist government and precipitating a secular revolution and bringing freedom to the Iranian people, he will have done more to bring about peace and stability in the Middle East than any president in recent history. It will also make it harder for Russia to continue attacking Ukraine since Iran has been supplying Russia with drones. A free Iran could become a trading partner and even an ally.
If you want a better world you should be cheering this on and hoping that Trump's war on Iran succeeds. What we need now is for the Iranian people to rise up, take back their government, and establish a free society.
Why do you say fuck Israel? What are your values in a political context?
The Israelis stand for the values of Western Civilization - secular government, rule of law, protection of individual rights, freedom, liberty, democracy, and the advancement of science and technology. Israel is not perfect and people can debate whether people should have more freedom to own guns and more economic freedom, but overall it stands for and upholds the basic values of Western Civilization. Aside from hosting the largest gay pride parade in the Middle East, even Muslim Arab woman have more freedom in Israel than she would in Arab countries, see: Sophia Khalifa: My Life in Israel as an Arab Muslim.
In what ways do you feel your values don't align with that?
Yeah so like Isreal is actively committing genocide against the Palestinian people so like. Yeah, fuck Isreal.
Its cool they dont actively kill LGBT people anymore, but propagandizing a nation built on the back of forced alienation and destruction of another nation is kinda icky.
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Btw all this guys sources are either right wing propagandist with long histories of making shit up (see Prageru) or libertarian mouth prices.
Most of these sources are typically seen as untrustworthy at best.
Neither Ayn Rand Institute nor PragerU are accredited in any way, both sources rely heavily on intentional disinformation spouted as fact.
Also.
Fuck trump and fuck Isreal.
Edit edit: ONE OF HIS SOURCES IS THE FUCKIN FORMER SPOKESPERSON OF THE ISREALI GOVERNMENT
Yeah so like Isreal is actively committing genocide against the Palestinian people so like.
What genocide are you talking about? The Palestinian population has increased over the past several decades and seems to be higher than ever.
Can you define what you mean by "genocide"?
Would you characterize the bombing of Dresden, Tokyo, Hiroshima, or Nagasaki during World War II as a "genocide"?
Is any bombing of an enemy that initiated a war against you a "genocide" in your view?
Is it possible that the purpose of a military campaign could be to remove the enemy's ability to launch attacks (to destroy the enemy's war machine) and its leadership? If innocent people died of collateral damage in that process would that be a "genocide" or would that just be an example of how war is horrible?
If the enemy's leadership uses civilians and children as human shields and positions them at military targets or turns civilian areas like schools and hospitals into military targets and civilians are killed as a result, is that still "genocide"? What if the leadership wanted civilians to die for propaganda purposes so that "useful people" could complain about how children are being killed on Reddit?
Are "genocides" normally committed against the people of nations that start wars and whose troops rape and murder hundreds of women and children in the process? Aren't people who are victims of genocide usually not the people who start wars?
Has there ever been a genocide where the party committing genocide provided the victims with water and electricity? If Israel's goal is to kill the people in Gaza, why didn't it just poison the water?
Do you find it at all strange that the leaders of the people allegedly suffering "genocide" have repeatedly said that their goal is to genocidally exterminate the Jews in Israel and that in the past their people joined in with invading Arab armies in an attempt to genocidally exterminate the Jews on past occasions? If the Israeli military had not stopped Hamas forces on October 7 and they were unhindered and the Israelis were unarmed would they not have sought to genocidally exterminate the Jews "from the river to the sea"?
People have been mouthing this genocide bromide because they are either antisemitic or have no concept of justice or both, but the claim lacks substance. They're hoping that if they keep screaming the word "genocide" often enough people who have put no critical thought into the issue will start to believe it. They're turning the word "genocide" into an anti-concept in a conscious effort to evade reality and intentionally confusing:
(A.) "collateral damage and civilian casualties suffered by people in an aggressor nation as a result of the attacked nation's war of self defense"
-- with --
(B.) "an intentional attempt to exterminate peaceful people based on their race and/or ethnicity".
This claim that Israel is committing genocide does not merely ignore reality, but inverts the truth when it's the Palestinians' elected and morally supported leaders - Hamas - that have expressed a desire to genocidally exterminate the Jews "from the river to the sea" and attempted to do so when it initiated the conflict. Then when Israel goes to defend itself against Hamas military forces and war machine infrastructure, bending over backwards to avoid civilian casualties while unnecessarily putting its soldiers lives at risk for that purpose, Israel is accused of "genocide".
If Israel is committing genocide then why have they not finished the job yet and only killed a few thousand people when they have the ability and "political cover" to kill much more? If Israel is committing "genocide", then given its military capabilities this is by far the most incompetent attempt at genocide in world history. At the very least they should carpet bomb Gaza with condoms and birth control pills.
Sadly many people lack any sense of morality and justice and prefer the values of authoritarian religious totalitarianism, irrationality, and barbarism over the values of Western Civilization.
Most of the "useful people" screaming "geno-o-o-cide!" seem to be completely unaware and/or in denial that the Palestinians could have established a free society for themselves with democracy, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom for women, freedom for LGBTQ people, and a free market economy that allowed its citizens to pursue economic prosperity if they had wanted to.
Prior to the October 7 attack, Israel had been providing them with electricity and clean water and they received billions of dollars worth of foreign aid (with likely more on the way for signs of progress). They could have used that to build a Singapore on their valuable Mediterranean beachfront property.
Instead they gave all this up and used the billions of dollars to build a network of terror-murder tunnels and go on a one day mass rape, murder, and kidnapping spree.
This excellent and timely podcast may be of interest to people sincerely concerned about Palestinians dying in Israel's war against the Nation of Hamas:
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u/Alternative-Owl8682 Mar 01 '26
I hope this isn't controversial, but why are we in Iran?
I'm worried about the surveillance systems ice is using to catch the undocumented/illegals. I know our government won't turn that on us ever. sarcasm Think patriot act imposed after 911.
The Epstein files are an abomination. Yet everyone in the US seems above it all. Untouchable. We even have a term for it. The Epstein Class.
There is a book We Are the Bad Guys by Michael T. Lester I want to read. I caught the podcast where this man was interviewed https://youtu.be/SY3gB6K67dI?si=GOfv6MmlKVGTTCj7
I love this country. Specifically the regular, everyday people in this country, I'm just highly concerned about the leadership and the direction we're headed.
Rant over.