alt Hacker NewsOne person dies to ICE, the whole country is in outrage; 37k people massacred in cold blood - barely a peep.
I hate how irrational our species is and how unempathetic we are to situations not immediately in front of us.
And Trump should not have promised assistance. How many more people are dead because they were encouraged by said promise? Some of these deaths can surely be attributed to him.
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"Help is on the way" from the US is often not a great propositon. Doubly so today.
https://reason.com/2026/01/23/the-trump-administration-plans...
The US shipped the carrier battle group in the region out to support the Venezuela operations, and is deporting asylum seekers back to their deaths this week.
Nobody in the US has any idea what is happening in Iran. Judging by the weird, not very HN like threads on this post, sounds like we are going to.
The fact that he said that and then DID NOT topple the government in Iran is insane.. completely irresponsible, or rather responsible.. for those deaths.
The irony is that now those who are still alive in Iran might remember this and update their notion of US trustworthiness accordingly.
Do you think that the people encouraging ice protests share some culpability in the deaths of the other protesters?
1 person gets an abortion, the whole country is in outrage. Millions of young men get mutilated at birth - barely a peep.
Funny you whine about irrationality while ignoring the very clear rational reason why Americans are outraged over government agents executing a random civilian in their own supposedly free country over what's happening in another country that is known for being violently oppressive.