• Gorilladrums@lemmy.world
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      23 天前

      No dude, you’re underestimating Iran’s regime. When I still lived in Iraq, they would literally pay school children pocket change so they could stand around and manufacture a crowd while their propped up proxy politicians give a pro-Iranian speech. This is their genuis idea to convince Iraqis that they’re actually popular in our communities.

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            23 天前

            And im saying i don’t see a huuuuuge difference.

            The americans are a bit better on balance right now, but trying their best to be much much worse. So im considering the two about even.

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              22 天前

              And I’m telling you that you lack perspective. I actually lived in both regions. I’ve seen this first hand. Trump is trying to speed run us into an autocracy, but Iran is way past that point. If a regime change happened and the current theocracy was replaced by a flawed autocracy, that would still be seen as a big improvement by many Iranians.

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                  22 天前

                  Why dream about being a genocidal pos when you’re already there? You should see what the current regime has done to the Kurds and Baha’is in the 80s and what they’ve been doing to the Balochis over the past decade or so.

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        23 天前

        Do you think that America doesn’t do similar shit on an infinitely larger scale? Because we do. Fuck paying for a crowd, WE OVERTHROW DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED LEADERS.

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          22 天前

          I literally lived in two countries that experienced both, and I’m telling you that Iran has been worse in both countries for far longer. Maybe America is worse elsewhere, but in Iraq and Syria? Iran is very hard to top. In Syria’s case, there’s more competition for that top spot because Turkey, Israel, and Russia all have really good cases for being the worst imperialist force in the country’s recent history because they’ve all done just so much damage.