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jckahntoday at 6:12 PM5 repliesview on HN

Do you believe that "death to America" chants should not be taken seriously?


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dofmtoday at 7:35 PM

In short, yes. They should not be taken seriously. You should take Iranian actions on the ground seriously, and ignore that which is essentially compelled political theatre.

culitoday at 6:48 PM

I'm saying it is foolish and historically uninformed to hold a blind faith that everyone that the US labels an "adversary" is evil.

Would you like to engage with the comment I left?

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Planktonnetoday at 9:17 PM

If they have no practical way of acting on the chant, then it's just bluster.

throw310822today at 7:44 PM

No they shouldn't because "death to" is simply a mistranslation. "Death to" is an idiom in Persian that means approximately "down with"- and in fact the official translation by the Iranian government itself is "Down with the USA". But I'm curious what you thought it meant.

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mx7zysuj4xewtoday at 7:18 PM

Yeah

To the younger generations it's just political theatre and gets laughed at as being the equivalent of boomer cringe

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