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> The people who had been called ‘rioters’ the day before were now labelled ‘terrorists’.

A familiar tactic to many governments around the world.

Iran is operating in at a scale so far beyond anything ever seen in the US that it's completely dishonest to compare the two.

> indoordin0saur

> Iran is operating in at a scale so far beyond anything ever seen in the US that it's completely dishonest to compare the two.

The person you're responding to didn't mention the US, but it's telling that that's where your mind goes to.

As someone else pointed out, the comment originally said that the US was doing the same thing as Iran before it was edited.

Ok, when you edit your comment I'll edit mine.

The original read "Spine-chillingly familiar" verbatim. I did not claim that the US was doing the same thing as Iran, and I changed it to make that even more clear after you tried boxing me into your interpretation.

No comparison was made, you're just reading a lot into one sentence.

The top-level comment was edited. It originally said that it was chillingly familiar to us or something along those lines.

Ah, thanks for pointing this out.

I mean, that's because the US and UK are doing that right now. I don't agree they cannot be compared

No they are not. Neither the UK nor the US are murdering protestors at any comparable scale at this point in time.

Do UK and the US import Iraqi militias to suppress local unrest?

As technologists, we're used to envisioning what things are like when they are scaled up.

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