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Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush Jr, Obama, and Biden would also have done it if the opportunity presented itself. The US has wanted to do this since 1978, when its Iranian puppet regime was overthrown.

You just parroted the last 35 years of imperial core propaganda to a T 👍

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To be fair, it’s a winning strategy on Reddit and almost every other social media platform in the imperial core.

Probably because

1. The US mistakenly believed that China’s “reform and opening up” would lead to another neocolonial plundering, like with the former USSR.
2. Outsourcing to China was making US capitalists so much money that they didn’t want a war that would cut that off.

Holy fuck you don’t even know what a nation is lmfao

I do, actually, but since you were the one talking about nations’ flags, I assumed that you didn’t know the difference between a nation and a state. Israeli Zionists clearly do know the difference, and they want an ethnically-cleaned, “Greater Israel” nation-state. Because they’re settler-colonialists; they’re fascists.

Allies even stuck to day bombing to limit collateral damage.

No, they did it in order to hit their targets, which were often cities. The US also dropped two atomic bombs on city centers with no warning at all.

Isreal bombs a population center: bad. Iran bombs an Isreal population center: good.

Obviously neither one is “good.” You’re putting words in my mouth.

Here’s a fun fact, most Israelis—bourgeois and proletariat—approve of what the state of Israel is doing in Gaza.

These are fascists. If there’s anything to be learned from WWII, it’s that no one is more antifascist than communists.

If your empathy for the people crushed under the rubble of an apartment complex depends on the flag out front then just admit you’re a frothing nationalist and stop pretending.

Palestinians don’t have a nation. They’ve been under occupation by European settler-colonists for about 80 years.

Palestinians have the right under UN law to struggle against their occupiers by any means necessary, including armed struggle, while the State of Israel, as an occupier, has no right to “self defense.”

As for Iran, it is an anti-imperialist state retaliating against an unprovoked attack by an imperialist state, which it has the right to do by UN law. Marxist-Leninists give Iran our critical support[^1] in the struggle against imperialist states, not to mention the struggle against genocide.

[^1]: Critical support is supporting something while also being critical of its flaws.

Are you serious right now? Communism isn’t based on solidarity with settler-colonists who are genociding the people they locked into the Gaza prison-ghetto for a generation, for the crime of being indigenous. October 7th was a prison break, a Warsaw ghetto uprising.

I highly doubt anything will ever bring it peace

The death of the imperialist Great and Little Satans would go a long way toward bringing peace.

Previously. Previously. Previously.

Oh good, it will be in the public domain.

OpenAI, which is also fighting a string of copyright lawsuits, donated $50 million this year to a group of research institutions including Oxford University’s 400-year-old Bodleian Library, which is digitizing rare texts and using AI to help transcribe them.

When the company first reached out to the Boston Public Library, one of the biggest in the U.S., the library made clear that any information it digitized would be for everyone, said Jessica Chapel, its chief of digital and online services.

“OpenAI had this interest in massive amounts of training data. We have an interest in massive amounts of digital objects. So this is kind of just a case that things are aligning,” Chapel said.

it’s not like Iran isn’t known for authoritarianism and human rights abuses.

Iran certainly has its problems, but they don’t hold a candle to Israel’s (or the US’s) human rights abuses.

Meanwhile Iran has as much right to develop nukes as any country: precisely zero.

Okay? Iran isn’t even developing any, while Israel has had hundreds for decades, which they developed in secret as a rogue state.

they are responsible for the death of millions of innocent lives.

Take your bullshit to Reddit.

Incidentally, in 1981, Egyptian president Anwar Sadat was assassinated by his military parade, on live TV worldwide.

I have no idea what organizations were involved with this. But yes, it’s basically Hamilton the Musical Protest. Big American patriotism/exceptionalism vibe. In my area, anyway, it also has anti-fascist, pro-immigrant, and, to a much lesser extent, a pro-Palestinian components. I don’t think there’s any direct anti-capitalism/pro-socialism to be seen, nor any direct anti-imperialism. On the contrary, I saw a few Ukrainian flags, and I even saw one Taiwan flag.

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All three branches of government are corrupt. Since we know the Supreme Court is corrupt, I think it’s reasonable for us to assume that the lower courts are, too.

I didn’t know he went to Nicaragua. The less I know about that culty grifter, the better.