• lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com
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    13 hours ago

    On the one hand: Trump did not do this to bring freedom there.

    On the other hand: Get fcked for killing Thousands of protesters during the last months!!

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      11 hours ago

      On the third hand: This is not paving the way for positive change in Iran, if anything Khamenei just became a martyr and his successor will be more powerful.

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        11 hours ago

        I mean, we will see about that. Maybe, that’s true, maybe not. There are huge protests in that country every few months. IMO, it’s a matter of time until it collapses.

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          It is, but not all change is positive change. The replacement could be fascism, or US vassals (setting the stage for Islamic Republic 2.0), or literally anything other than a healthy democracy, and a war of national survival does not at all bode well for the latter possibility. There is such a thing as good conditions and bad conditions for democracy.

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            7 hours ago

            I mean… We can guess around whether it gets better or worse. We don’t yet…

            Maybe, the replacement kills tens of thousands of protesters, too… Maybe, they won’t…

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    17 hours ago

    I’m glad he is dead, I hope the people of Iran can unite and topple the regime themselves and put the government of their own design in place.

    I’m getting word that the people celebrating his killing are being shot by Iranian military in the street, not sure how credible it is.

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      17 hours ago

      I’m getting word that the people celebrating his killing are being shot by Iranian military in the street, not sure how credible it is.

      I’d say it’s pretty credible, considering they’ve already been shot at for weeks.

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        16 hours ago

        Think about it this way.

        Imagine MAGA takes over, starts brutalizing civilians, and creates a loyalist paramilitary forcen that loves him. Then imagine someone kills Trump. Then imagine ICE agents shooting people celebrating Trumps death.

        Not saying the US is there but it’s not that much of s stretch and Christofascism has everything in common with fundamentalist Islam.

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          Think about it this way.

          Imagine MAGA takes over, starts brutalizing civilians, and creates a loyalist paramilitary forcen that loves him. Then imagine china also complicit in human right abuses that want to destroy the USA kills Trump and bomb an elementary school massacring over 100 poor little girls

          Would it be time to celebrate Trump death or the focus should be on the foreign agressor trying to destroy your country

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            6 hours ago

            Uh if China bombed the White House I’m pretty sure people would celebrate at this point.

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    13 hours ago

    Dumb question but if they killed the main guy, is that enough for them to stop performing any further violence in the region?

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      9 hours ago

      It’s aboyt crearing a failed stste and a civil war that eill kill millions so israel can start the grester israel project and the usa controlling the strsight of hormuz

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      13 hours ago

      No. It’s not about regime change, it’s about Israel using their epstein blackmail to get a forever war with Iran for domestic purposes.

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    17 hours ago

    This is gonna leave a Guinness World Record level of a power vacuum if the higher-ups continue to die at this rate. I wouldn’t gamble on any named successor still being alive, since this seems like a decapitation strike.

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      Of course there won’t be a named a successor. They’ve already openly discussed that the leadership would be shared by the highest ranking military, legislature and religious leaders until they defeat their enemy then they will hold an election.

      Or… It will just turn into another Libya and we see ISIS2.0 in a few months chopping off people’s heads on our social media. Fun times.

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    “Decapitation only works when you get all the leaders and I don’t think that we got all the leaders,” he said.

    Welp…