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Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) threatened to target American tech companies on Tuesday, claiming they are involved in strikes against Iran.

In a statement published by Tasnim News Agency, one of the Islamic Republic’s state media agencies, the IRGC claimed the companies were “involved in terrorist operations” against Iran. The statement listed 18 companies including Tesla, Palantir, and Microsoft.

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[–] mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 hour ago

well, i guess 30.000 oracle employees caught a lucky break..

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago

Oh no! Please don't do it! fingers crossed

[–] daannii@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Good luck, have fun, don't die.

[–] G3NI5Y5@europe.pub 23 points 9 hours ago
[–] 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 9 hours ago

Is there a gofundme?

[–] mellowistheyellow@lemmy.zip 8 points 9 hours ago
[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 6 points 9 hours ago

I double dog dare you!

[–] finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 39 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Oh, no! Not Palantir! Oh, please don't hurt them! They're just a harmless data processing company run by a devout Christian!

[–] amorangi@lemmy.nz 1 points 3 minutes ago

If by Christian you mean literally Satan.

[–] bigFab@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

No need to worry man. Palantir is not listed. It's Plantir that will blow up.

[–] zergtoshi@lemmy.world 30 points 14 hours ago

Strange to see something good coming off a war.

[–] natecox@programming.dev 23 points 16 hours ago

No. Stop. Don't.

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.org 7 points 13 hours ago
[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 19 hours ago

Do it do it do it do it do it do it do it do it do it do it

[–] furzegulo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 156 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] tidderuuf@lemmy.world 55 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Whoa! There are some innocent and hard working people at those work sites. Some people even live nearby and their lives shouldn't be in danger.

There's nice long lists of CEOs, board executives and lobbying firms out there... And if their lives were somehow impacted by this needless war then that would have a much quicker response to this war.

They don't even need to hurt any of them but just target their megayachts that are very easily tracked and this war would end in a heartbeat.

[–] Chivera@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

Yeah but Iran is letting them know in advance that way they can stop going there.

[–] tehn00bi@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Sooo kill a few hard working people on boats instead?

[–] Goldmage263@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago

Poisidon demands more sacrifices!

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 63 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

It's too bad you don't get to choose how the people you attack retaliate. We probably should not have attacked them in the first place

[–] tidderuuf@lemmy.world 9 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Exactly, go after the assholes who chose to go to war and actually doing the killing.

[–] mellowistheyellow@lemmy.zip 7 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Tell that to America, not Iran. America is blowing up school children.

[–] sik0fewl@piefed.ca 10 points 17 hours ago

If you believe Iran, that’s what they are doing.

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[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 17 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

To be clear: I hope no innocent people die.

but also: Innocent people in Iran have certainly died by our choice not to update target info (killing school children with a direct hit we should have known better) and by our inaccurate weapons (we're killing lots of civilians).

So it's hard to argue if Iran strikes these tech companies, especially if they time it to, say, the middle of the night when there would be just a few people there.

Basically, I can't condone or support innocent people dying, but it's hard to argue that it would be a war crime for them if it's not a war crime when we hit civilians.

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[–] Leather@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago
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[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Friendly reminder:

You don't know the admins of any of the lemmy instances you interact with or how likely they are to "have your back" if they get a Letter. Or if they might even report you themselves.

Not sure why I bring that up.

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[–] xSikes@feddit.online 39 points 21 hours ago

Bomb data centers not people

[–] IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.wtf 32 points 21 hours ago

Have they considered starting a GoFundMe?

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 59 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Just so everyone is aware:

This is a Daily Caller article that OP went thru AOL to hide the source.

If it's real, a non-fascist source will report it.

[–] finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

The only time you see aol/yahoo links is when the OP wants to hide where the article comes from.

It's crazy consistent.

You'll never see an aol/yahoo link but rehosted from a reasonable source

[–] lena@gregtech.eu 13 points 1 day ago

Bruhhh it was founded my Tucker Carlson. This article is not worth my attention, or anyone's for that matter.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

It does cite a post by Iranian State media on X, though. So it seems more real than just something the Daily Caller made up.

(interesting how X isn't on their naughty list. I wonder why....)

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[–] Didntdoit71@feddit.online 24 points 21 hours ago

Anything Musk- related, please. Enjoy yourselves.

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 50 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Saapas@piefed.zip 6 points 23 hours ago

I love the lunacy, but hated every moment of using it

[–] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Smart move.

Attack the money that actually runs this country and they might get their dog to heel.

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 day ago

The federal government will just "bail them out".

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Cmon pull a fight club and blow up the student loan centers.

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago

Or a Mr Robot

[–] Reygle@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago
[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

What day? I need to work from home that day

[–] AlexLost@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

If they aren't directly responsible, they funded and supported this regime all the way through. Death by proxy!

[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Worst April Fool's prank ever :(

but on a serious note, it's a bit difficult to completely argue against their logic. :/

[–] maplesaga@lemmy.world 5 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Trump is controlled by the S&P500, it is pretty smart.

[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago

Trump is not very much controlled by anything beyond the last person that spoke with him. Maybe Putin. He's certainly easily manipulated, but the problem is that it doesn't stick because he is an idiot.

[–] homes@piefed.world 5 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Wouldn’t all of those billionaire mega yachts be much easier targets?

Aren’t they already shooting at Dubai?

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