Um, Bette Midler, I've got to tell you that pairing "All You Fascists Bound To Lose" with hopes for a Democratic victory in the midterms is really ridiculous.

Actually it's fucking embarrassing. Democrats winning is not a loss for fascism. You could hope for it for practical reasons perhaps, but what tf does voting the Blue fascists into power have to do with *all* the fascists losing?

Jesus Christ.

Democrats are desperate to co-opt people's rage against Trump's horrifyingly inhumane & violent administration to support their *less noticeably* horrifyingly inhumane & violent version of government.

It's really disturbing. They want everyone to close their eyes, cover their ears, & shout "LALALALALA!" to cover the screams of oppressed people like they previously had been doing.

We don't live in a just, equitable, or "decent" society.

Going back to the pretense would itself be violence.

Watch them complain about *how* & *why* the US government decided to start murdering Iranians instead of complaining that they are murdering people.

They talk like it was obviously inevitable that the US *would* eventually bomb Iran. It's so disgusting.

@artemis worse, there are quite a bunch of people who say that actually, iran should have been dealt with one way or another, completely disregarding that we're talking about humans altogether

@esoteric_programmer @artemis Absolutely they should have been dealt with, by not running coup against them in 1953 for a start.

Funny (read absolutely appalling) how so much of today's troubles were created by stuff we did a mere 3 score and ten ago.

@hypostase @artemis true! but also, what happened then? I think I'm missing some historical context around that time, and a quick web search doesn't reveal much

@esoteric_programmer @hypostase @artemis Iran was a relatively liberal democracy run by sane people who nationalised the oil.

Britain, France and the US did a coup and installed the ‘loyal’ Ayatollah regime which immediately went rogue. Iran has been preparing for this assault ever since

(Note: there was probably another coup that went just as well at some point)

@vasya @hypostase @artemis interesting! that's definitely something I didn't know. O well, then this is another plan which backfired horribly for the US, it's one of many after all