Imagine if some foreign country was giving weapons to Americans protesting ICE, and said here's a bunch of guns, go kill your Federal agents?
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americans have guns already and it evidently doesn't seem to work that way. only someone with a death wish would use a gun against the government
Less than half of Americans own guns, it's some of the people who do own guns that own an armory worth of weapons that throws the stats off.
32% own a gun, 42% live in a household with a gun
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/07/24/key-facts-about-americans-and-guns/
There are more guns than people in the US.
Yeah that's the stat that made me think they were much more common, but the third who do own guns tend to own more than one, and a few own way more than one.
Correct, with some of the more prolific owners having as many as 30 or more.
wtf why would you ever need that many guns? i could rationalize one of each type per adult but even with a generous loadout (rifle, shotgun, and sidearm) and little Tina trained to dual-wield 9mm pistols while she does drive-by attacks from her tricycle, they still wouldn't equip half of these. this is just begging to get "lost" or stolen by a roving biker gang during a Mad Max type event.
Still an insane stat seen from the outside, 42% of households is wild.
I live around the kind of people that want guns, as a result I need guns. To protect myself from the fucking psychos.
He loves their protesters, hates ours.
I think they could do without his brand of love. Especially if they are minors.
A journalist asked Iranian Kurdish parties. Nobody could confirm receiving any weapons.
Let's not assume something is true because Trump says it it. He has a long track record of lying about every issue and changing his words daily.
Kurdish Iranian opposition groups deny claims of receiving weapons from US
Mohammed Nazif Qaderi, a senior official from the opposition Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI), told Rudaw that “those statements made are baseless and we haven't received any weapons.
/.../
Kako Aliyar, a member of the leadership committee of the Kurdish Iranian opposition party Komala, told Rudaw that "as our own party, no weapons have come to us and we haven't received anything, we're not even aware of the matter.
/.../
Amjad Hussein Panahi, head of communications for Komala of the Toilers of Kurdistan, also told Rudaw, “We assure you we haven't received a single bullet or weapon from any country or place, and we're not aware of the existence of such a thing; what we have is our own.”
/.../
Hamno Naqshbandi, a member of the general command of the Kurdistan National Army affiliated with the Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK), said that “Donald Trump's message is unclear to us. What is there is that we as our army have in no way received weapons from the US or any other country, not even a single bullet."
If your perspective on international anti-government protests is seriously challenged by the involvement of clandestine CIA support, I have really bad news for you
Arming oppositional forces of our foreign adversaries is possibly the most consistent function of the CIA, and yet im supposed to doubt their involvement in the violent outbreak in Iran that happened just as the US was planning to start a war?
Nevermind how untrustworthy Trump is as a messenger - i would be surprised if we weren't
Has anyone checked if Iran has a Four Seasons Landscaping company they might have accidentally given the weapons to?
Or perhaps a diary farm in Wisconsin? Maybe they didn't know Kurds was spelled with a "k" and not a "c".
This is beautiful - thank you.
It's weird on a lot of levels. If it was true. Turkey would be furious that the US is arming kurds. From their perspective, a fellow NATO member just armed one of their enemies.
They're probably furious regardless if true, because it's such an outrageous thing to admit to.
And I don't know which part of "secretly arming" Trump is confused about but since he just told the world, it's obviously not secret enough.
The US (and international coalition) very openly arms the Kurds in Northern Iraq, and through the SDF (YPG and YPJ are DTOs so they can't technically send to them) in Syria while Turkey shells the aid workers responding to earthquakes. To assume they stop arming the Kurds at the border implies Iran has excellent border security.
An armed Kurdish population gives Turkey something to play strongman against. They know it's happening.
The guy that wants to destroy your bridges, schools, orphanages, and power stations thinks you should do him a solid. 🤨
1980s Trump: let's train the Mujahadeen. What could possibly go wrong?!
Just posting here to let Iran know I can totally be trusted with a Shahed drone, pls send to Antifa HQ, 420 Lenin ave, apt 69.
Ah man you got assigned to the Lenin Ave HQ? I got the one on Soros Lane which is fine I guess if you don't mind small talk with Hillary Clinton
She's so angry all the time. Chill, babe.
Who will train them? Trump's bombing could also move Iranians to support their government.
Already does.
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Sure and you are totally winning the war.
Are you sure it was after they opened fire on the protesters, because it would be so much worse if it was before?
It was before.
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