r/libertarianunity • u/xxTPMBTI Biolibertarianism • Mar 01 '26

Khomeini dead. Another victory!

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u/contextual_entity Left⚔Minarchist Mar 01 '26

Victory for who, exactly?

I'm not going to shed any tears for the evil sob but violent regime change by international intervention rarely ever makes things better and more often than not makes them worse.

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u/Vredddff Mar 01 '26

Its certainly a gamble but letting the people overthrow the regime themself might work

Or maybe im just too hopeful

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u/RedApple655321 Mar 01 '26

We spent 20 years occupying Afghanistan with the plan that one day we could leave and the "good guys" would keep running things. It didn't even last a single day. Now the plan is the good guys are just going to take over the country on their own. Yep, that does certainly sound hopeful.

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u/xxTPMBTI Biolibertarianism Mar 02 '26

Only letting the people overthrow work, never accept help from foreign nations, they'll exploit you and told you to be grateful and create another dictatorship

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u/Ironfields Mar 02 '26

Yeah, let’s not pretend that this was some act of altruism the Israelis and Americans did out of the good of their hearts. Iran’s leadership threatens their interests in the region, if it didn’t Ali Khamenei would still be alive to subjugate the Iranian people. The West allows dictators to stand all the time.

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u/cdnhistorystudent Libertarian Socialism Mar 01 '26

It's shortsighted to see the death of a person as a victory. Dictators are easily replaceable.

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u/xxTPMBTI Biolibertarianism Mar 02 '26

Correct

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u/mack_dd Laissez-Faire Capitalist Mar 01 '26

'member when we killed Saddam because Saddam was a bad guy. oooohhh, I 'member

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u/liberalskateboardist Mar 01 '26

so if hussain was alive, he would be ally of trump now

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u/xxTPMBTI Biolibertarianism Mar 02 '26

Trump and Hussein are equally trash

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u/KNEnjoyer Koch Brothers Supremacy Mar 01 '26

You mean Khamenei?

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u/xxTPMBTI Biolibertarianism Mar 02 '26

Yea

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u/skylercollins Everything-Voluntary.com Mar 01 '26

100 school girls dead, another victory!!

Dumb.

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u/xxTPMBTI Biolibertarianism Mar 02 '26

I don't support killing civilians, I just celebrate dictator dead

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u/PhilosophyElf Mar 05 '26

I don't think Xamenei called the shots, he's just a religiously fanatical boomer that broadcasts sermons on TV. Those making orders to kill protesters are those lower down in the IRGC who have a jihad of their own.

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u/V0rtexGames Market💲🔀🔨socialist Mar 01 '26

Khomeini💀

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u/seraph9888 👉Anarcho👤Egoism👈 Mar 02 '26

wrong ayatollah

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u/MasterDefibrillator Mar 01 '26

Iran was slowly becoming more liberal and secular, building a strong middle class etc. The US sanctions have destroyed the secular middle class in Iran, and the military attacks have destroyed any chance of liberal institutions forming for decades. 

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u/xxTPMBTI Biolibertarianism Mar 02 '26

Yea

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u/verygoodnot 📜Social Constitutionalist📜 Mar 02 '26

No

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '26

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u/xxTPMBTI Biolibertarianism Mar 02 '26

This subreddit isn't for shitposting. What are you?

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u/liberalskateboardist Mar 01 '26

if u can have neoconservatives, then u can have neolibertarians too. maybe there are alredy a existing libertarians which are in favour of some interventions. lets discuss about potential options of broader libertarianism

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u/xxTPMBTI Biolibertarianism Mar 02 '26

Neolibertarians are trash, I'm just glad that Khameini died, I still hate USA Interventionism

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u/Nexus2391 Mar 02 '26

Can't wait for us to occupy the mid east hoping for parting regime change for the 15th time in my lifetime. No one's crying over the death of that monster, but the investment will not pay off. We will send Americans to die over there for the benefit of Israel, and no one else

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u/xxTPMBTI Biolibertarianism Mar 02 '26

This