wonderingwanderer

They also didn’t bother to consider maybe they might need some anti-drone technology before invading the country that manufacturers russia’s drones. You know, like that laser in arizona that shot down a party balloon or something…

and said the combined US-Israeli air campaign had hit more than 15,000 targets since the war began.

How many of those targets were schools, hospitals, cultural heritage sites, bazaars, cafes, and/or residential districts?

Those missiles could have gone to Ukraine to defend against russian tanks, but for some reason the current US administration said we couldn’t afford it…

Weird…

That’s great and all, but anyone in the Middle-class or above tend to be complacent with capitalist systems even when most of the value they produce by their labor gets syphoned and hoarded by the owner-class, and doled out to the c-suite in huge bonuses, while your pay and benefits packages stagnate.

Also ignoring constantly rising prices and enshittification due to corporate greed and “infinite growth” mentality, constantly trying to maximize profits and never accepting a stable system as “good enough.”

There are a lot of problems with capitalism when you really dig into it, and not all of its problems are limited to only effecting the poor.

But if you live in a nation with public healthcare and education funded by taxpayer dollars, congratulations! You’re benefiting from elements of socialism.

Under a purely capitalist system, those things would be privatized and commodified like they are in the US. You know, that renowned american healthcare and education… that’s capitalism in a nutshell.

Every implementation of “communism” back to lenin, stalin, and mao has been “communism in name only.”

Lenin literally instructed the bolsheviks to kill all the soviets after he lost an election to them, so that he could seize power and install puppets in their positions.

If you actually read marx, communism was supposed to be a democratic system governed by what are essentially workers unions. Lenin and trotsky are where it veered off course.

And I’m not just blowing smoke up your ass. When I argue with tankies they call me a capitalist simply because I reject their bolshevism. Believe it or not, nuanced and well-informed takes are allowed on the internet.

If they were communist in more than name, their proletariat wouldn’t be starving to death while their rulers get fat.

I wasn’t trying to say you in particular are choosing a side. Just venting about how on lemmy in general, a lot of people overreact if I say anything even slightly critical of the Iranian regime.

Even before this US/Israeli invasion, on a post about iranian student protesters, people were accusing me of being a zionist because it expressed support for the Iranian students who were protesting…

Yes, the current regime in the US is deplorable. The regime in the Knesset is also deplorable. But the Iranian regime is deplorable too. Like, it’s entirely possible for all those things to be true, and they are…

Communist in name only

Sure, but that doesn’t mean we have to choose one to support. Saying the IRGC is evil doesn’t imply support for the US invasion, and saying the US invasion is evil doesn’t imply support for the IRGC.

It’s like sanity has gone out there window. Let’s not forget that not supporting either side is always an option.

That depends on the molecular composition of the sand at Mar-a-lago

No, that would be the square root of a negative number plus or minus a real number

Deal!

It’s an expansion of the theater of war. Virtually all of modern warfare has taken place on the land and in the air. There haven’t been true naval battles in a long time.

Side note: I like how they dress like Obi-wan

…so do all the worst countries in the world. In fact, all the countries have it. That’s the problem.

iran is a piece of shit but they’re not a worldwide imperialist terrorist organization actively invading other nations.

But they have been supplying drones to a worldwide imperialist terrorist organization actively invading other nations…

We can say both sides are evil, it’s okay. Nuance is rare enough already as it is without needing to discourage it when we see it.

But high chance of retaliation, which is why cowards target civilians…

Wow, I didn’t know sane takes were still allowed on the internet…

Or a glass museum

I learned that the US has anti-drone lasers but instead of sending them where they’re needed like Ukraine and Kuwait, they send them to… Arizona… to hunt birthday balloons…