• eldavi@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    ever heard of saudi arabia?

    they too give gay people the death sentence and murder protestor and they’re allies of the united state.

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      2 months ago

      Who said I support the US? Also whataboutism doesn’t excuse killing queer people, regardless if it is Saudi Arabia or Iran.

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        2 months ago

        It’s not a standard, it’s the West’s double standard. It’s obvious that the Westerners absolutely do not give a shit about human rights whatsoever.

        It’s all just a cover up for stealing Iran’s resources. Because if they actually gave a shit, they wouldn’t be best pals with Saudi Arabia.

        Anything a Western county says about human rights should be immediately discarded as propaganda

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        2 months ago

        it proves that you only give af when this double standard is applied to our political enemies, but don’t care when it’s an ally.

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          2 months ago

          It proves you don’t give a shit about queer people and think it’s okay for Iran to kill queer people just because Saudi Arabia does it. Both countries governments suck.

          And when did I ever say I support the US or Israel even though I don’t.

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            2 months ago

            i’m a queer that cares about queer people everywhere.

            if you truly dont support the US, then you need to stop spreading support for an attack on iran. it’s easy to see that you did so unwittingly, but that is the impact is the same intentional or not and pink washing is a favorite tool that the US & isreal uses to manufacture support for regime change.

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              2 months ago

              Also I never wrote that I support a US attack on Iran. Please quote me where I supposedly said that.

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                the US attack in stages and the first two stages are always manufacturing consent within the US (which includes pink washing and labeling the target regime as authoritarian) and fostering civil unrest (usually through sanctions & helping the target regime’s opposition).

                these protests are the first stages of a US attack and supporting these protests is supporting the US in it’s goal to force a regime change.

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              I support the protests in Iran, not a US intervention in Iran. I support regime change in Iran since an Islamic theocracy will always victimize queer people, but without US intervention.

              How about you stop jumping to conclusions?

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                the protests are the start of the US intervention and there is no conclusion jumping here.

                the US has been using this same playbook for the last century. it only works because people chose to be willfully ignorant about it and falls apart at the slightly critical thought.