ITT: lemmites jumping through hopes to be contrarians
this post was submitted on 13 Jan 2026
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Or the admin is doing the Iraq WMD stuff to go to war. Something that the current admin did for months with Venezuela. Of course news agencies with goldfish memory will just repeat a whole lie. So whether its the boy crying wolf again or not its clearly a tragedy whether its 1% of a Gaza or 5% of a Gaza.
Jesus, I wish there was some kind of standard for freedom of speech and freedom of the press that could be applied globally...
But that would be inherently "evil" because global governments are supposed to be bad? Unless it's corporate globalism. Then it's ok, and we don't need standards or regulations because the values are just baked in since it's a private company...?
Still it does seems a bit hypocritical to point out how evil Iran is while Trump is threatening to invoke the insurrection act in Minnesota against protestors who are upset about Trump invading their home, tear gassing a high school, shooting one man, and murdering one woman (so far), and even though it hasn't gotten much press, for some reason the FBI just raided a journalists home yesterday and nobody really seems to know why.
Not trying to downplay Iran murdering so many citizens or give Trump brownie points just because he's pointing at the guy he's got a lot of catching up to do with when comparing violent crack downs on critics and the press.
Let's just focus on the guy in Iran bc Trump's mad at him, not the guy in Saudi Arabia bc we're frenz now... And maybe not the guy in Russia? Because I can't even keep up with what we're all supposed to believe re: Trump, Putin, and oil right now.
Tldr: Authoritarian dictators all suck no matter who they are, where they are, or how many innocent people they've murdered (so far)
From what I was told. We can’t trust info coming out of Iran right now. We don’t know if these are the Iranian government trying see who repeats info. But because internet is so limited. We don’t have our normal sources.
I'm seeing this wave of revolts and I'm still wondering when my compatriots back home in China will finally rise up against the government... 👀
What policies or factors do you think would animate people here? Youth unemployment? Hukou?
With trumps approval rating at all time lows, he’s going to need to invade a country to try to boost his support.
Aaaand here we go, off to bomb Iran to "save" all those civilians and "spread democracy" and conveniently take Iran's natural resources. #propoganda
Well, gotta pay for the help with oil, right? /s