Mikado
@mikadoe.eth
Iran's president: "We ask the people to put aside any differences and disagreements in these sensitive times" Meaning that if you lost an eye in 2022 when the IRGC shot hundreds of the protestors in the eye (580 confirmed), if the Islamic republic hanged your loved ones or if you've been feeling oppressed since birth please foget all that for a sec and help them keep their power so they can keep killing and hurting their own people later. Link to the Wikipedia page of eye injuries in 2022 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_injuries_during_2022_Iranian_protests
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Renée Campbell
@reneecampbell
I don’t understand why anyone would want that regime to stay in power.
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logonaut.eth 🎩🍖↑
@logonaut.eth
There are plenty of Iranians who hate Khamenei and his autocratic security apparatus AND love their homeland and remain deeply proud of their Persian culture and history. Likewise, I imagine plenty of people who loathe Trump nevertheless would take up arms for the national defense if a foreign state launched a major attack on American soil during his presidency and killed growing numbers of civilians. Think about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Republicans, who had been the primary opposition to Democrat FDR and his policies, rallied to support the war effort in massive numbers. Many prominent Republicans immediately endorsed the war declaration. Senator Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan, who had been a leading isolationist, famously said that Pearl Harbor ended isolationism for any realist. Republican leaders like Wendell Willkie (who had been Roosevelt’s bitter opponent in 1940) publicly supported the president and the war effort. Military service wasn’t divided along party lines — some of the war’s most celebrated military leaders were Republicans, and Republican-led states often exceeded their quotas for enlistments and war bond purchases.
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