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Sorry. What am I supposed to be doing?
Fly to Iran? Get killed or arrested?
What are you looking for, here? Posts of solidarity with the Iranian protests? Seems like you could have just made one. Be the change.
Because their oppressors are in opposition to the United States, alot of so called revolutionaries on Lemmy have sided with the oppressors. Many Leftist on this site express more solidarity with "the enemy of my enemy" than they do with workers internationally and they'll happily abandon the Iranian people rather then risk a new Iranian government that's less hostile to the West.
Remember folks, even the unproven allegation that Mossad paid off someone in those protests means that you have ideological cover to oppose the whole thing. Peak tankie logic .
They're not revolutionizing in the correct revolutionary way, which makes them bourgeoise agents of Western Imperialism.
Yes, but you see, the US is on their side, which means they're the bad guys.
On the one hand, sure, the people there should watch out for the possibility that the US or similar tries to get a government satisfactory to them installed if the current one falls.
But on the other hand, it's not like there's any mechanism, in a revolution, to collectively declare "you're not allowed to support us" and have it stick. So if all it takes for a revolution to be illegitimate is the US to declare itself in favor, then the US has the power to delegitimize any revolution it wishes without recourse, which doesn't make much sense.
Its funny since lots of revolutions only really succeeded due to another state actor involved. Imagine being against the Haitian revolution because you think its just some psyop by the Americans to harm the French
edit: To clarify the I don't know if the Haitians NEEDED the US, but the US did help
The Hatian revolution didn't really succeed either. Dessalines basically just re-enslaved everyone but they all started to slowly starve because nobody would trade with them after the rampage.
Its funny since lots of revolutions only really succeeded due to another state actor involved.
Everyone give it up for America's favorite fighting Frenchman!
Immigrants get the job done. As an aside though Lafayette was kind of badass.
I like how you conflate three very different groups of users together and smear half of them as something they're not.
By all means, inform us of all you are doing to help so we can also support things.
Otherwise you're just trying to feel morally superior
Speaking up is a good start. Having infinite energy for condemnation of every misstep of a bourgeois liberal regime but not a single moment for the condemnation of repression in an authoritarian theocratic regime because it's "Anti-West" is suspect.
Luckily(/s) many of the usual suspects on here have shown that they have plenty of energy... for condemning the Iranian protests.
"ICE officers roam the streets and kill innocent civilians but 3%er, patriot front, nra and proud boys are silent"
I'm not sure what youre looking for here, validation? Fanfare? Anger?
Good for them. They died fighting for what they believed in and history will remember them kindly. Should we all be so lucky.
Yeah it's hard for me to do anything from my couch in Nova Scotia.
The "Everything America supports" is bad virus, many such cases. I think Foucoult wrote a bunch of papers in support of the Iran regime when they got rid of the Western backed government (Not to say I support that government). Did not age well..
Because its a Mossad/CIA operation and part of a campaign of a several decade long regime change attempt by israel.
PS: trump is Netanyahu's bitch
I'll take things that never happened for 10 bucks.
In this very fucking thread.
Tankies are gonna tankie, that's nothing new. There are plenty of leftists siding with the Iranian revolutionaries on Lemmy, so what the OP says (that leftists in general are silent on Iran) is false. Unless they're specifically talking about tankies, but nowhere do I see them making that distinction.
Tankies give us leftists a bad name sadly.