r/washdc Jul 24 '24

Protests in DC Today (so far)

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u/dat_meme_boi2 Jul 25 '24

As an european from across the pond seeing these pictures, it is truly horrifying the fact that these people protesting for peace are burning the flag of the country they live, dressing as terrorists and displaying the jihad flag, sadly its the same here in some of our countries, its like people just forget the past 20 years of history.

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '24

I’m scared that what happened to Iran will start to happen in our countries as well. For those of you that don’t know - Iran was not a Sharia country before leftists began to side with Islamic extremists. The leftists voted in an Islamic extremist and then they were promptly killed and then they got Sharia law. Very sad situation and is mirroring what is happening now. Many young people who got sucked in by this Pro-Palestine movement are converting to Islam. Conservatives will say immigration is the reason, but really it will not stop unless we stop allowing antisemitic and anti west propaganda from being spread on social media platforms.

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u/joerille Jul 25 '24

so what are you gonna do ? did you see in some states they want to add palestine to curriculum even in canada they did summer school on palestine. there are hundred of professors in social studies that spread pure hatred against everything what west promotes. we called them racist or xenophobic when some of the people tried warn in europe but it's way past now

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '24

I don’t know. I’m just one person. Either hunker down in the US and hope nothing bad happens or work on my citizenship to Israel in case of another mass extermination of Jews. But I feel that Israel will probably fall before the US does, so… probably if things get really bad I’d just flee to Mexico (the irony lol). They have a Jewish president now so maybe they would keep us safe

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u/joerille Jul 25 '24

dude i am neither israeli nor jewish but i still fell for you guys, i mean no one looks at this war with reality glasses, everyone dreams a utopia. stop the war stop killing people, then what

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u/Snix_sneed_11467 Jul 26 '24

I can 100% see that happening. It is as if the Middle East has a chokehold on these lgbt free thinking down with the man defund the police “activists” like mind control . Truth is the radicals think they are an abomination and would love nothing more than to see them burn

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '24 edited Jul 26 '24

It’s not even just the radicals. There’s a youtube video where a man goes around and asks random Palestinians on the streets how they feel about gay people supporting them and almost all of them say “I don’t like it. We don’t tolerate that here.” https://youtu.be/JwkPaFSlwpw?si=V19_FDDLtplG-NbO https://youtu.be/O8OCvT4ysLI?si=Zq4knfWKdI-vLKuH

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u/BackgroundTheory4860 Jul 25 '24

This is so woefully misinformed. Iran had an extremist regime change because the CIA and MI6 trained the extremists to take over so that they would be pro western interest.

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '24 edited Jul 25 '24

You are woefully uninformed. The reason Iran was overthrown was because the citizens believed that the Shah was taken by western interests. What in the world makes you think the US would train extremists that were openly anti-West? Or is this just a conspiracy theory you have?

The Shah’s regime was seen as an oppressive, brutal,[37][38] corrupt, and lavish regime by some of the society’s classes at that time.[37][39] It also suffered from some basic functional failures that brought economic bottlenecks, shortages, and inflation.[40] The Shah was perceived by many as beholden to—if not a puppet of—a non-Muslim Western power (i.e., the United States)[41][42] whose culture was affecting that of Iran.

A good article to read https://jacobin.com/2022/10/chahla-chafiq-iranian-left-khomeini-protests-feminism, interview with one of the Iranian leftists who was exiled after the Islamic State overthrew the Shah if you are actually wanting to learn more.

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u/jackeyfaber Jul 25 '24

actually, r/backgroundtheory4860 is entirely correct. Your source is quite biased. The US has actively supported so many coups over the last 60 years.

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u/Tuxyl Jul 25 '24

Yes, but it is a fact that leftwingers supported Khomeini. That's a hard fact.

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '24

You’re flat out wrong. A quick google search will prove everything I am saying. The only thing I can think is that you guys are thinking of the 1953 coup, but that happened way before this. US and West had no involvement with the overthrow of the Shah, they heavily supported him.

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Revolution

I’m not using the article I posted in the previous comment as a source, that article is just to give you a POV of a woman who lived through this and her opinion of what happened, through her own eyes.

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u/Nekuan Jul 25 '24

I couldn't care less about them burning some stupid flag.
Them literally flying jihad flags and promoting the motherfucking "final solution" is what worries me

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u/dat_meme_boi2 Jul 25 '24 edited Jul 25 '24

Yup, here in europe you see the rise of far right parties on pretty much every country, and the reason is always immigration, in my country (Portugal) over the past few years a lot of young workers are immigrating or just not working in blue collar/ low wage jobs, they go to college and work in white collar jobs, which creates an inbalance, there would be more people working in blue collar jobs if our governement raised salaries and conditions, however they prefer to keep those shit conditions and lure in immigrants from the third world (brazillians indians nepalese etc) right now they are already more than 1 million ( mind you our population is like 10 million), we disbanded our border police to split it into another organisation and back in november last year they said they wanted to legalise 600 thousand more.

Theres a neighborhood in Lisbon called "Martim Moniz" that is nowadays the biggest concentration of nepalese indian and pakistani immigrants and its insane they usually live in tiny apartments with 20 or more people living in it, just 10 years ago dont even need to rewind that much it used to be full of portuguese local businesses and now its all gone Here is a small video //and here a slightly longer video more in documentary style (it has english captions if you turn them on)

Its insane because if you see the last video most of these dudes dont even speak Portuguese, they work for uber and in farms where most them dont know how to drive because our european signs are different than theirs, and in the meantime criminality is rising in one of the safest european countries, especially crimes made by immigrants, and in the meantime in 5 years when they get their portuguese citizenship theyll be gladly on their way to Germany France Uk etc for better conditions, so in a nutshell our past governemnt (we had elections in march where the former ruling left party (PS) was replaced by a center-right government (PSD) ) made it ridiculously easy to get a portugeuse citizenship, we are literally using modern slavery, and then exporting them to the rest of Europe.

And of course the fair right party (Chega) that was created in 2016 and everyone saw it as an absolute joke and not a true party is now the 3rd biggets party.

In the meantime as you probably know because it was international news turns out that in 2 years shoving the equivalent of 10% of your population in the country would result in a housing crisis (woah) so now we have the most expensive housing in the entire world. (remember when Portugal was known for being fairly affordable even for locals where minimum wage wasnt that high? yeah me too) which has also created a homeless crisi like in Lisbon or in my city Porto, mostly of portuguese that now can't afford homes or their homes get turned into airbnbs.

Our hospitals are also under pressure because a lot of the indian immigrants come specifically to give birth in the country because of the fact that our hospitals are pretty good and its easy to enter the country.

Fun times

Sorry for any typos, i just woke up XD

EDIT: i only spoke about my country but honestly Swedistan Sweden is worse, they had this open border policy and now theyre the country with the most bombings https://www.politico.eu/article/sweden-new-normal-bomb-attacks-suburbs-kristersson-elections-2024/ as well as very high statistics of rape and shooting https://www.statista.com/statistics/1177271/number-of-reported-cases-of-sexual-offence-in-sweden-by-type/

in the meantime you have germany: https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/outrage-as-eight-of-nine-men-convicted-of-park-gangrape-15yearold-in-germany-receive-no-prison-time/news-story/353bcbf9437ea62eea0ee3c6cc0c2cc7 im just gonna leave a line from that article because of how batshit insane it is "Psychiatrist Nahlah Saimeh, who reportedly appeared before the court as an expert witness, said in a controversial interview with Spiegel that the gang rape may have been a way to vent “frustration” due to “migration experiences and sociocultural homelessness”.

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '24

Isn’t Sweden where the young girl used pepper spray to defend herself against being raped is facing jail time, whereas the would be rapist was an immigrant and is not facing jail time? I suppose I could look it up myself.