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I'm sure this won't drive the people of Iran right into the arms of new leader once he is picked. /s
I wanted to upvote this but then saw it already has 666..
yes let's make a meme joke on a serious post what are you like 14
Remember when we all condemned Russia for hitting those schools in Ukraine? And, of course, they're still doing it.
I guess not all of us did.
At one elementary school, according to Iran’s state-controlled media, they arrived to find devastation. At least 80 children had been killed in the strike on Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ school in Minab, southern Iran, the IRNA news agency reported, with dozens more unaccounted for.
Why are you believing the state media of an authoritarian extremist state?
Why are you not quoting the part where they say they cross-checked that the videos were real and the building was correctly identified ?
Because there is video evidence of it...? I saw a tiny pink backpack with bloody handprints on it as soon as I saw the video of people screaming outside the school
Do you have a link to that video?
For anyone else reading this, FG_3479 has other posts promoting deportation and suggesting some immigrants are simply "wired for crime".
I don't think there's any need to engage with someone who has such a clear absence of compassion or humanity.
I do not think you should simply pick random people off the street and deport them.
I think that illegal immigrants should be given a chance to go through the process to become legal, and that process should be cheaper and faster than it is now.
The people I want deported are those such as drug dealers and terrorists.
Also, my "wired for crime" comment was not targeted towards immigrants but instead criminals. It was in a thread about police.
I have said all of this before in a earlier comment:
The people I'm worried about are criminals who are not caught at the border and that the government doesn't know about.
We need to both get rid of them and make the legal routes faster and cheaper to isolate criminals from innocent people.
Currently illegal immigrants should be given a path to legallity if they are willing to provide the documents and have done nothing wrong in both the UK and their home countries.
I hope you understand my views now.
No one is illegal on stolen land. The United States has no actual right to exist, and therefore has no actual right to deport people.
Drug dealers are supplying a demand created by citizens and governments have no right to tell people what substances they may or may not put in their own bodies. You address harmful drug use by providing people with a life they don't feel a desperate need to escape from, not by taking anyone's freedom.
I understand your views just as I understood them before. I understand that you're attempting to downplay the murder of children by imperialists and probably have a biased or vested interest in doing so.
Do you have working eyes?
Exporting Trump Sponsored Terrorism and GOP war on women and children to the whole world.
Well it wouldn't be an Israeli strike without at least one school being blown to bits.
God fucking damnit, so fucking frustrating. Another 30+ years of "terrorists" because people will avenge war crimes committed by the US. This is maddening.
And terrorist attacks on Americans ensures more supposed "strong man" presidents. It's all part of the plan.
Yes, this is exactly what I was thinking. All suicide bombers need to do is say "this was for those schoolgirls" and it's kind of hard to disagree with them.
The problem is that the people committing these atrocities face no legal justice, so it's up to vigilantes to do it instead.
Another 30+ years of “terrorists”
We were never going to hear the end of "Muslim Terrorist" rhetoric, because it was instrumental in justifying our dominion over the region.
There isn't going to be another 9/11. We're well past the point of needing a causa belli for this kind of war. It'll just be ICE goons murdering parents in front of crying children and CNN talking heads explaining how we're safer because of it.
causa belli
It's "casus" belli
Israelis and americans expanding and practicing their genocide tactics to see what they can get away with. I dont understand how murdering junior school girls is a legitimate target. Unfortunately western governments are all supporting this despite is blatant illegality. I am ashamed of my government for coming out in support of this. Anthony Albanese is Prime Minister of Australia. Shame on you.
because the military convinced everyone their bombs are super precise, but in reality they have a 20% hit rate on average where a "hit" is within the radius of 250 yards (~230 meters)
So this could've been a "direct accurate hit", statistically speaking, on the actual target which was as far away as being on the other side of the Golden Gate Bridge or a "very near miss" at a distance of laying the empire state building on its side
Americans are so used to school killings that they don't blink an eye at this.
How can you live with such a callous disregard for childs lives? What has become of your country?
Become?
We're talking about the only UN member that hasn't ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child, because they don't want to have to stop executing children.
Hurting children has always been a core value of the USA, up there with shooting each other, rampant egoism, and their twisted version of christian fundamentalism.
I wonder how you will feel after you realize you and your allies have been a big part of the American empire, too?
See history of the US dollar and international trade.
Your country likely contributes a significant amount to the US economy, and we go to war together, too.
how do you live with that?
Ok, so in essence you are saying the person who sold shoes to a murderer is equally guilty of the crime committed?
No, I'm in essence saying that the person who murders with the murderer is equally guilty of murder.
You should look up who arms Australia, by the way. Can you guess who?
We live with it by having gun laws which have prevented the rash of mass shootings you've had, and maintaining foreign aid programs to the countries around us, and many further away.
Yes, we trade with you, and China, and Israel, and everyone we can, because trade historically opens up opportunities for diplomacy and allows leverage for achieving human rights goals. We are part of the greater US empire, yes indeed, we've been too close to the US in the past. But when we found that our special forces had killed civilians in Afghanistan, for example, it resulted in national scandal and ongoing reform, inquiry, etc. In the US that's just the norm.
We do not participate in US military actions that may result in civilian deaths. We do not refuel your planes when they do that, for example.
We are sitting over here, trying to be friends, while being ever more horrified with your country and trying to remember the good times.
What are your gun laws that have prevented mass shootings? Genuine question.
Well, one aspect of the recent mass shooting in Sydney that was remarkable compared to ones in the US or Europe was that the shooters used long guns that could not fire very fast. Australian laws introduced after the Port Arthur massacre focused on preventing rate of fire and ammo capacity, because it literally slows down the rate at which a shooter can kill people, especially in a crowd. We also do not allow handguns, even though we allow quite powerful long arms.
If the Bondi shooters had simple trigger-pull semi-automatic ARs, they would likely have killed a lot more people.
We also have much stricter registration laws, without the loopholes you get in the States, so police generally know who has guns, where they are stored, etc, to a much greater extent, and can check up on gun owners if they want, any time. There are far fewer crazy people with guns, because you can get your license and guns taken away for being crazy, or committing violent crimes, etc.
Now, the advantage we have over the EU and the USA is a harder border to cross, fewer people crossing it, only eight state/territories to worry about, and uniform federal legislation about what guns are allowed. It makes it easier to restrict the supply of easily obtainable illegal weapons.
Sure, criminal gangs can get them, but mass shootings are bad for business, so the loners and freaks who typically do mass shootings can't easily get them.
What's that thing when people are killed for no real strategic purpose? 🤔
Pretty sure targeting children's schools breaches the Geneva Convention rules of war. Although Israel will say they're a cover for a military base