mathillMar 1
Alx 🐈

They killed Saddam, we got ISIS
They killed Bin Laden, we got the Taliban back and women being even more oppressed than before.

They killed Khamenei, and keep bombing schools and prisons were leftists and women are.

I mourn none of these men. But messianic narcissist self-appointed paladins aren't there to liberate anyone. They kill these dictators because they are competitors in the oppression game.

#Iran

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Show threadDisisdeguey🔻PalestineAction🇵🇸Mar 1
@alx Hear,hear
Show threaducape [uwe caspar]Mar 1
@alx 👍
Show threadDenis BuckleyMar 1
@alx
A well expressed truth!
Show threadTero HänninenMar 1
@alx Drill, baby drill.
Show threadMitex LeoMar 1
@alx 🎯
Show threadsortius Mar 1

@alx The Great Game never ended, it's just new actors, with more profits to be made.

Enslave the poor, kill your opponents, all for profit under the guise of "defending the world"

Show threadAlx 🐈Mar 1
@sortius we need an International global 1789.
Show threadsortius Mar 1
@alx I'll sharpen the guillotine
Show threadGeli Gak?Mar 1
@alx 💯 can not deny for last paragraph
Show threadhumourmetomMar 1
@alx Trump promises long, deadly game of whack-a-fundamentalist-mole. Will unveil Coalition of the Coerced within weeks.
Show threadWouter 🇳🇱🇧🇷🇧🇪Mar 1
@alx And one oppressor just wants to show that he can piss further than the other oppressor.
Show threadBarry Cook 🇨🇦Mar 1

@alx - The Art of Distraction.

Two wildly unpopular leaders - both facing political and legal malfeasance pressure - decide to get together and run the 'Wag the Dog' scenario to distract their constituents and - more importantly - the Media.
And is so often the case, the end result of such an action does not go so far as to discuss what happens afterwards. If the event achieves their goals, the rest is collateral damage.

See Iraq. Or Afghanistan. Or Gaza. Or Venezuela.

Show threadlucaMar 1

@alx Agree.
I think it's called by literate "geopolitics".

Being illiterate, I describe it as the law of the strongest. And it doesn't stop at the top level, there's always a lower level strongest, killing and oppressing, even in smaller human communities. Down to the two humans group, the couple.

It looks very hard to organize human species in groups, of two units and more, without one or more of these animals starting oppressing the others. Might help training them to sociality.

Show threadArchaeoIainMar 1
@alx they killed Rabin and they got Netanyahoo and the other racist murderers in his cabinet.
Show threadAlx 🐈Mar 1
@ArchaeoIain Interesting the framing of Rabin in the same list of Saddam and Bin Laden.
Show threadArchaeoIainMar 1
@alx he was the exact opposite, so far as we know, and was killed by his own. But he was one of the few hopes for peaceful lives which included both Palestinians and Jews.
Show threadGutmensch.Mar 1
@alx Gaddhafi --> war lords
Show threadNu ModularMar 1

@alx Keep in mind that armament production is rife with multiple fossil fuels processes, that create immense wealth - especially in persistent war. The fact that one of the largest origins of fossil fuels, subject to increased restrictions like The Strait of Hormuz is, and the profit margin multiplies. Add in the existing relationships the current US Administration has with campaign contributions, from said fossil fuels sources in that same region, and the profit margins can be exponential.

It's one of the biggest grifts in human history.

Show threadsneedy maccreedyMar 2
@alx they overthrew mosaddegh and installed the shah, who created the conditions for the theocratic revolution, etc