And less desire to own nuclear bombs. Can't blame them if they want nukea that can reach the fatland now

But hey, at least the agreement preventing them from having a nuclear weapon is no longer under Obama's name! Ain't that great?

Not that USA has any more of a justified reason to have nukes vs Iran especially after threatening to exterminate them.

This is basically the dumbest way imaginable to move away from oil though.

Oil getting expensive makes everything expensive. If it was just the price at the pump I might agree with you.

Saaaaaame

Don’t worry, it’ll come down miraculously just in time for major midterm elections.

CHILDREN, not students.

Children attending a girl's school at the time of the bombing. The iconic photo of the incident was blood-splattered backpacks. I'd say "student" is spot on.

Also kinda flies in the face of the endless White Nationalist propaganda, insisting women in Iran are all prisoners in their own homes and treated as chattel to be sold off for profit by their parents. These girls were slaughtered, in no small part, because the American military feared that they would grow up to join the Iranian professional class. By becoming doctors and teachers and engineers - perhaps even nuclear scientists - they posed the same existential risk to American Hegemony that Cuban doctors and South African teachers and Chinese engineers present.

It was 168 little kids.

It was 168 future Iranian adults. Future patriots who might continue the project of the 1979 Revolution in defiance of a Global US Hegemony. Future members of the intelligensia who might contribute to the Iranian economy and polity. Future mothers to the next generation of Iranians.

Just like with Palestine, the murder of kids is paramount to the project of ethnically cleansing a nation. Especially if the children are in a position to one day become peers of and competitors to your nation's own children.

I won't pretend Iran is the beginning, but I predict that the American embrace of genocidal policy will continue to spread - west and south of Syria and Libya, north and east of Iran - until every member of the Global South is once again put into their place or exterminated.

Yeah, Biden had the files too. It’s not like there’s any shortage of Israel worshipping Iran warhawks on the dem side, either.

Things might have been a little different but I doubt they’d be as different as OP thinks.

I still think trump did more than any other president last 20 years. By making it clear for those who doubted the illusion of choice

I know that historically we have done some really evil things, but I'd thought we were past that.

The whole point of "Never Forget" was to remind us that we can never be passed that. The Nazis weren't monsters, they were human beings. Human beings are capable of incredible atrocities, and we need to constantly remind ourselves of that. Make it the foundation of our whole society. But unfortunately the average person in unable to see past their own lifetime, and therefore sees no point in doing anything that could affect real change for future generations.

I know that historically we have done some really evil things, but I'd thought we were past that.

Why? At what point was the US not doing horrible things?

I keep thinking even the republicans have to admit it’s gone too far, but no, they are okay with it.

That's because they are fascists. There is no end game with fascism. It's a mad dash for more and more control until the situation implodes in upon itself.

Republicans are fascists. By definition.

And a child to believe society is not exhausted by endless overuse/abuse of character assassinations.

At this point puff daddy and r Kelly could team up and take on all of a high whole schools prom dates (boys and girls) and ppl would ignore it.

Don't believe me? Then explain why Cosby is free and on the streets, and Clinton, and trump, and putin, and worst of alll all..rhiana.

Agreed. This war happened because Iran supplies a large quantity of oil to China, and the oligarchs are fucking terrified of the rise of communism and the implications it has for their way of life. This war and the attack on Venezuela are both part of the encirclement strategy that capitalists are employing in an attempt to choke China’s economy before the west is eclipsed.

They’ve left it too late though, China’s green revolution will soon free them and the global south from the capitalist oil hegemony.

really we never had a choice.

We did, actually. Her name was Jill Stein.

Or if zionism was actively resisted as a genocidal ideology.

We haven't even gotten to the part with the thoughts.

I liked a facebook post, that's worth one love&prayer

Prosecute. Persecute is what he does to his enemies, which at this point is any that disagrees with his insane reality.

Tell me again, who’s fault is it?

Where to even begin? I guess you could start by reading Settlers.

probably other locations with others we don’t hear about as much.

In other words, the brown people ICE killed.

It was called Epic Fury.

Not all, but how bad policy affects your pocket drives (pun intended) home a point to people who lack empathy.

I just filled up my 25 year old Subaru and spent $55. That's a significant percentage of the value of the car at this point in its life. Some people can't do that once or twice a week, and in a country that basically mandates you drive, outside of major metropolitan centers, it sucks.

Democrats forget who was president when the genocide started

They didn't forget; they're in denial. The left was pretty vocal at the time about how Biden was bending over backwards to assist Netanyahu in his war crimes. They should be sharing a cell right now.

Israel had attempted to goad the U.S. into going to war with Iran since G.W. Bush was president by using the "We are going to strike with or without you" excuse. Bush knew it was a trick. Obama knew it was a trick. Trump's people in the first admin knew it was a trick. Biden knew it was a trick.

Only an unrestrained Trump surrounded by evangelical warhawks who believe in starting a holy war to bring about the end times would be dumb enough to take Israel's bait. It was a complete unforced error.

Kamala couldn't possibly be described as tough on Israel, but I doubt she would have surrounded herself with Fox News sycophants who could possibly convince her to jump at the chance to begin a new protracted war in the Middle East. Only Trump is uniquely unqualified enough to do such a thing.

If you think President Harris doesn't follow Israel into war with Iran, you are dumb

I guess we will never know and are stuck with the hundreds of dead on our hands (so far).

I wonder 🤔 will independents remember who allowed a dictator to install themselves because they decided to gamble at the worst time?

oh that's right, independent voters have an aversion to reality and refuse to accept any responsibility for the outcome of the 2024 election results.

that sounds oddly familiar...

Democrats forget who was president when the genocide started

Joseph Biden wasn't president of Israel.

If you think President Harris doesn’t follow Israel into war with Iran

Mmm, useless speculation. Tastes like shit.