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[–] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 9 points 5 days ago (7 children)

How is this propaganda? The iranian government literally killed thousands of students who were protesting in the streets only a few weeks ago.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 41 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Guys, guys. Chill.

Both of these countries are killing their own civilian population. But now one of them is also killing the other country's population as well. Probably soon to be joined by the other doing the same in return.

Let me just be the anarchist in the room and say fuck both of these countries. Fuck every country. We shouldn't have countries. And we especially shouldn't have countries that kill people, no matter which side of an imaginary line they're killing people on.

[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz -1 points 5 days ago (2 children)

One of these countries is defending its civilian population against US bombs, the other is dropping them, don't both sides this shit because Iran isn't perfect.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'm not trying to 'both sides' this shit as much as I'm trying to 'no sides' this shit.

[–] Damionsipher@lemmy.world 26 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Israel has murdered at least 21,000 CHILDREN over the past 30 months. To think that they have any moral standing is moronic at best, but more likely pure evil.

[–] Riverside@reddthat.com 21 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You're referring to confirmed violent deaths. The number of victims including food deprivation, lack of medicine and sanitation and consequent diseases since Oct 7th is above half a million, about half of them children.

[–] Damionsipher@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yes, I'm only referencing deaths attributed to direct military action - or the IDF's direct murder of children with bullets and bombs. This is not to minimize the horror they have inflicted through genocidal policy.

[–] Riverside@reddthat.com 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, I wasn't trying to be belligerent or anything, just wanted to bring attention to it. Thanks for your reminder of the violence of the Zionist entity, we will not forget this

[–] Damionsipher@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

Nope, I didn't take it as belligerence either, just wanted to confirm I agree.

[–] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works -2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

...and the sky is blue. But how is this propaganda? How is invading another country, propaganda for zionists?

[–] MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 days ago

I think they mean that you can't fully trust the narrative about protests you read in the Western media. There is Israeli and US involvement in those protests trying to instigate regime change.

So the OP above is parroting Israeli/US propaganda by saying the protests are a justification for the latest military action.

[–] Damionsipher@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Making a statement that minimizes state violence because it's against a state that undertakes state violence is still minimizing state violence. In this instance it is minimizing the violence of a genocidal state that is far more violent than the state it is attacking for undertaking state violence.

[–] Sharkticon@lemmy.zip 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

So Israel and the United States are going to respond by murdering the rest of them? You do know that they bomb indiscriminately correct? I just don't understand your argument here. If you're concerned about civilian deaths how could you be supportive of this. They literally bomb hospitals.

[–] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works -4 points 5 days ago

Cool your tits. I didn't say any of that.

[–] Riverside@reddthat.com 6 points 5 days ago

Literal "Hamas is hiding in hospitals" levels of hasbara

[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Well in this case, Casey is literally an LLM bot so it's probably propaganda. Check their modlog.

[–] clot27@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 days ago

And your source for that is CIA, right