Falling for CIA propaganda in 2026 is a skill issue 😬

https://lemmy.zip/post/60508929

I mean I get the point but it’s kinda pointless to quibble about numbers when the regime itself acknowledges they killed thousands. The meme implies this is made up but that’s not so.

The Iranian people deserve help but I don’t know what could actually help them. Not what Trump is doing certainly.

Ending the decades of trade sanctions might be a good step forward. Sanctions punish the poorest, the wealthy and powerful in any nation subject to sanctions miraculously find a way to maintain their lifestyles.
Oppressively authoritarian nations stay like that even without sanctions. Just look at places like Turkmenistan. It’s has similar levels of oppression to North Korea and isn’t on a sanction list. Or hell, just Saudi Arabia. The sanctions aren’t the issue, the shitty dictators are and the only solution is to stop funding their regimes… but the oil is too good