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Democrats be like “look I may not agree with the war itself, but I agree with all of the objectives, justifications, and propaganda given for the war”blue__wave
dictator death = good. Trump not having coherent plan for country he’s destabilizing = bad.I don’t think you can endorse the killing of someone, and do so every fucking time, while also simultaneously condemning the pattern of how those people got killed. It’s literally the “I don’t think Iraq is a good idea, but you gotta admit Saddam’s pretty bad” type of spineless “anti-imperialism” that you fucking libs are always on
it’s not the same thing bc at the end of the day, the political action I’m doing is anti-imperialist. the main thing I’m saying is the war is bad. But if there’s *negative reaction* to saying the Iranian regime is bad, or people insinuating that the human rights abuses there aren’t bad, that actually makes it crucial to point out that the ayatollah isn’t a righteous actor when opposing military action there
Yeah I’m making a rhetorical criticism, they’re equivocating, which is fucking stupid. Here’s the line on the Iran War, if you wanna actually be oppositional to the current government: “The illegal Israeli-US action in Iran is unequivocally wrong” It’s literally that simple, and you guys can never muster it. Nuance is great in an academic paper, but you libs have nuance-poisoned yourselves to the point of never holding any real positions.
You’re right if I were talking to the govt. I’m not talking to the government right now, I’m talking to people who in theory should be able to understand nuance. In addition, my goal is never purely to be “oppositional to the govt”, it’s to be morally coherent. frequently those things align. but for me they don’t fully align without making it clear that I’m not pro-regime. I am anti US intervention. And I do not support the ayatollah’s regime. I am saying both things because they are both true
There’d have to be a multilateral approach to humanitarian intervention against Israel, more similar to the NATO bombings of Serbia when they were committing genocide under Milosevic. Since 9/11 we’ve been a lot fonder of these dumb ass unilateral interventions that never actually help anyone except defense contractors.
as for how that translates into policy positions, I only have power over one of those statements. So it starts and ends with me being against US intervention. but every fucking time this happens I see a chunk of folks simp for murder and torture and oppression just bc they’re nominally opposed to the aims of US imperialism. it’s a big problem. so when I talk to people, I’m gonna encourage the to not do that.
Russia is tied up in their own war in Ukraine, and not really able to prop up proxies in the Middle East, that’s exactly why Assad fell. And as for China, they’re all about making as many countries happy as possible, if the West abandoned Israel on moral grounds, why would China burn their bridge with every Arab state to be like “the genocide WILL continue” lmao