The… Iranian regime’s own claims are Mo/CIA slop? Or the (highly relevant) accurate reporting of what the wanna-be dictator of the US is saying while threatening vaguely about it?

oh nice it’s the community icon, but gun :3

Ah, that makes sense. Good point.

Thank god someone here gets it. That attitude is weirdly common here on lemmy and it serves as such a giant middle finger to the people fighting against the fascists every day, and especially vulnerable and oppressed groups who’ve been fighting with all we’ve got just for it all to fall apart anyways.

I know these people aren’t actually ops but it helps me sleep easier at night to assume they are.

I straight up referred to the entire situation as a shitshow. The tone indicator should’ve been wildly redundant.

Are you kidding me? Did you seriously not grasp the sarcasm of that comment?

As if I’m not fucking trying? They first came to power when I was a child, and I’ve been fighting them my entire adult life. Shut the fuck up about what my responsibility is, I’ve gone far and above that.

Yeah, cause we’re willingly in this shitshow

This particular case is nearly the perfect embodiment of the oft cited retort to this phrase, “The enemy of my enemy is my enemy’s enemy, nothing more, nothing less.” China is literally never your friend, even when your interests align nearly perfectly, because China works very hard to ensure it never bears the burden of friendship.

she’s literally me

Yeah, the whole army of me doesn’t show up, and them I’m fired (or take a reason sick day for no reason when I have a very, very limited number of those and get fired next time I’m sick).

Nobody else is willing to join this because some internet rando promised them it would work, and a solid chunk of the population would be unwilling to join even if there was no consequences because they generally back the regime and its warmongering. In the theoretical best case it’s the prisoners’ dilemma on a societal scale which is basically impossible to win without a larger national union syndicate to coordinate.

Unionize now, then we can actually make a general strike happen.

“Yuri is the right of all sentient beings” -Optimus Prime

Great news for Christianity in China (and terrible news for Christians), Christianity thrives in conditions where its practitioners are actively being oppressed. It’s almost like it’s their fantasy kink.

Just got banned from Reddit for suggesting we should be ready to kill our murderers if we’re going to be killed anyways. People are not ready to hear this, but they fucking need to.

It sounds like she may have attempted to take her own life but failed, and depending on the method (some meds in particular) it’s not impossible to mis-identify someone as being dead before realizing they still have faint signs of life on closer inspection. It’s disturbingly common that hospital patients wake up in a morgue.

manul

“I choose to believe the factually incorrect thing” I’m hoping this is a joke but it’s hard to tell on the internet

It’s socialism for ✨corporations✨

Oh, yeah, this comment right here is a pretty definitive tell. Of course I don’t wanna try to tell you what your gender is with more certainty than you or anything, but yeah, that’s an extremely egg thing to say. I’ve heard and seen some variation of it irl and online from no less than a fifty trans women early in the process of self-acceptance.

I strongly encourage you to look into it a bit deeper at the very least.

Well, two. Internally and externally.