Video verified by AP shows Iranians taking to Tehran’s streets in large numbers to celebrate the death of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
When you say things like “state controlled media” you need to clarify if you’re referring to Iran or the US.
I remember once seeing the BBC referred to as “UK state media” and boy were people angry
Huh? No one is angry about that. It is state media. But it’s independent even if the Tories did try and make it less so.
The issue is that most people associate “state media” with it being controlled by the state.
Oh come on that’s not fair… Ellison who now owns CNN, CBS, TimeWarner HBO… Whelp nvm.
The US has too many of them to use a generic description like that.
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Har, har. False equivalence let’s us pretend there is no difference between Hitler and Churchill.
Trump and Netanyahu are Hitler in this situation
He is quite close though https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943
There weren’t.
You didn’t disappoint.
There are literal street parties that have broken out in my city. It’s mostly Iranian flags, but there’s a few US and Israeli flags in the crowd. They are all friends tonight.
Yeah! Sadly Lemmy users are downvoting Iranians being happy, for them this is a sign that America did something right which is wrong and can’t be allowed to be seen
They killed 85 children
Iranian government killed thousands last month
TENs of thousands
Tankies are out in force, most other people don’t seem to care.
Also, how are Trump, Starmer, and others still trying to make this about nuclear weapons? Nuclear weapons are state insurance. Their only use is to prevent a foreign power from using force to destroy or control a state. Kind of like what Trump is doing to Iran right now. This latest foreign intervention will only encourage whoever takes over to develop nuclear weapons faster, to avoid exactly this scenario in the future.
What makes you think all evil regimes that Lemmy loves like North Korea etc aren’t doing this already?
This never would have happened if Iran had nuclear weapons
Which is nice given that even without nukes they showed that they’re more than happy to kill thousands of protesters and, well, generally make everyone’s life miserable.
more than happy to kill thousands of protesters
Stop falling for ameriKKKan propaganda.
Ah yes, AmeriKKKan propaganda, made by Iranian officials
The US brutally represses protests just like the Iranians. US police just have more money for less lethal weapons.
figure A. Whataboutism.
This is a dumb take, this happened in part because Iran was pursuing nuclear weapons. Not just giving the US and Israel a casus belli but also the amount of resources pumped into the program was a major contributor to the economic issues behind the protests.
They shoulda gotten them a long time ago. And Ukraine shouldn’t have given up theirs when the US pressured them to.
Ukraine had physical possession of nukes but no ability to use them. The Russians never let them have the launch codes.
Ukrainian officials knew they weren’t getting anything worthwhile in the Budapest memorandum because they weren’t giving anything up besides a headache.
South Africa gave up their nukes and decommissioned their nuclear program. Ukraine just formalized what was already true, the nukes were not usable for them.
It’s a good thing they don’t have nuclear weapons then yeah?
Are yo saying it’s good they don’t have because that way US could attack or because they didn’t use them to retaliate?
I understand you mean the former.
Donald Trump tells the truth. I didn’t think he had it in him.
I was so doubtful when he said it before Iran confirmed it.
