• geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOP
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        19 hours ago

        Watch out, the enlightened centrist has arrived!

        Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler, well, they are both bad people. Let’s root for neither of them.

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          19 hours ago

          I get what you’re saying but you couldn’t have chosen a worse example… Like yeah absolutely fuck Churchill lol, he’s a huge part of the reason why we’re in this mess with Israel now

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            Still I would have rooted for Churchill when it comes to the conflict of Nazi Germany versus Britain because I am able to separate actions from blindly supporting everything.

            Iran to9lo did absolutely horrible things in the past They sent a lot of children to die during their war with Iraq. The Mahsa Amani stuff everyone keeps bringing up is so lightweight but Western propagaganda is the dumbest stuff.

            However, currently Iran is aiding Palestine and fighting Israel and they are not sending children to die for it. So I support that action.

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            17 hours ago

            It’s still a good example because as bad as Churchill was he was better than Hitler.

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                I’m not denying Churchills crimes or painting him as good.

                How many would Hitler have murdered if he had similar control over the region? Just look at General plan Ost…

                There’s a reason the USSR tried to ally with Churchill against Hitler before hostilities even started.

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                  16 hours ago

                  Sure, you have a point, just wanted to remind people that western European countries enacted many genocides to similar scale than Nazi Germany (or greater)

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        24 hours ago

        Most of the allies in world war 2 were horrible, repressive regimes. I would still support them.

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            Iran ranks 3rd in the world in numbers of engineers. 70% of them are women.
            ‘The second class citizens’ is exagerated, and often simply lies for propaganda purposes, like the Mahsa Amini case.
            The last execution of homosexuals was 20 years ago, and this was for rape, not bcs homosexuality.

            Yes many islamic countries have issues, and these are the typical hasbara machine’s ammo:
            “Let us genocide the Palestinians bcs they hate the gays!”

            Also your WW2 ‘democracies’ were - and still are in many cases - colonisers and looters of a large part of the world.

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              15 hours ago

              Do you have a particular source on modern LGBT realities in Iran you could recommend?

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                No sorry, LGBT is not particularly my interest.
                Maybe go on Lemmygrad and ask them directly.
                A few hours ago there were some discussing the attacks.

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            That’s hardly a reasonable comparison though is it?

            It’s entirely reasonable, you just have a white supremacist double standard.

            The allies during WW2 were mostly functioning democracies.

            The vast majority of the British Empire couldn’t vote and were considered lesser beings. The US had racial inequality inshrined into law and a habit of murdering minorities. The USSR I leave as an exercise to the reader.

            This conflict is a theocratic dictatorship

            I assume you mean Israel.

            which treats women as second class citizens

            Lol, the WW2 allies absolutely treated women as second class citizens, and criminalised homosexuality. Its also ghoulish the way westerners go "these countries treat minorities badly, so it’s ok to kill them (including the minorities). Ukraine isn’t perfect about minorities either, do you use that to say they deserve to get invaded? Oh wait, Ukraine in white.

            Both sides are fucking evil and to celebrate one over the other is ignorant.

            The British Empire was more evil than Iran by multiple orders of magnitude, yet for some reason (white supremacy) you don’t take this stance on WW2

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              Churchill voted greatest Briton of all times in 2016.
              A white supremacist who used the slogan ‘keep Britain white’.
              Called Jews ‘hebrew bloodsuckers’ and has murdered millions

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                And it’s the same people who voted him that who are now condemning Iran and defending Israel. Whatever ideology they claim to possess, the one they actually practice is white supremacy.