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noosphrtoday at 2:51 AM8 repliesview on HN

This is the counter argument: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_massacres

Here's hoping the regime is destabilised enough to topple by itself.


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hrimfaxitoday at 2:55 AM

How is this in any way a counter argument to the US bombing a school? That their own government would stoop to such lengths gives free reign to foreign governments?

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stousettoday at 3:50 AM

The American commander in chief was, as of yesterday, vowing to end their entire civilization.

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KennyBlankentoday at 4:10 AM

Aside from the fact that the events you linked to have no connection whatsoever to why the US started attacking Iran, there is absolutely no reality or moral code in which "a government kills a couple hundred of its citizens" justifies another government on the other side of the world blowing up a hundred plus schoolchildren and other civilians.

mindslighttoday at 3:53 AM

> Here's hoping the regime is destabilised enough to topple by itself.

It's looking like this is the exact type of magical thinking of the most useless "president" ever. Meanwhile in the real world, such things take hard work.

lern_too_speltoday at 3:21 AM

The counter argument is missing some justification. Is it reasonable to go killing people on the hope that something good will come out of it? Is there no less violent way to achieve those objectives? Do we really think that people will organize a toppling while they're being bombed without Internet access? Do we think they'll topple the current regime for one that is less antagonistic to Israel and the US after the bombings?

JumpCrisscrosstoday at 2:53 AM

> This is the counter argument

When the French helped us during the Revolutionary War, they didn't shore bombard the colonists' kids because it would have been bad and counterproductive.

pphyschtoday at 3:42 AM

This is black propaganda, not a counterargument.

At most there were a couple thousand casualties from violent riots that involved armed gangs (or sleeper cells if you want to go that route).

There were not "60,000" peaceful protestors executed by the government, as Trump claimed yesterday without evidence. That is murderous propaganda, blood libel intended to deflect from the actual mass murder of civilians by American forces e.g. the Minab school.

It was a narrative specifically designed to induce comments like yours.

8notetoday at 3:30 AM

i dont imagine spending a bunch on the military and oil is nearly enough to topple the US government.

what case does it make that the constitution needs to be abandoned?