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> By the fact that Trump hasn't killed thousands of people to stay in power.

Oh? How many do you think he has killed?

How many people have died so far because of Trump's aid to Israel?

How many people have died because of the cuts to USAID?

How many Iranians has Trump killed? How many Iranian children? ... Compare to, how many Americans did the Iranian government kill?

How certain are you that the conditions in the Iran protests weren't provoked by US and Israeli provocateurs? ... Why?

What's your explanation for Trump directing Lockheed Martin to ramp up production of interceptor missiles months before assassinating Iran's leader during negotiations? Months before the protests used as a fig leaf of justification?

> Pretty simple really.

Idk man. Is it? Maybe thinking Trump is a better person than the leader he helped assassinate is too simple.

> Protesting the US government is still legal. Protesting the Iranian government in Iran will get you killed.

Protesting the Israeli government in the US can get you thrown in a concentration camp and deported. That's pretty weird, no?

Even during the last admin, protesting the Israeli government could get you fired, or attacked by riot police.

Does the moral high ground of not murdering protesters give you the right to arm and enable genocide? To murder leaders while pretending to negotiate with them? To bomb schools?

Thanks for this comment, really. I always found it weird that people care so much about internal repression of some random countries (not Saudi Arabia, close ally of the US and one of the instigators of this war), but not military actions in third countries of its own (nor again repression by countries which solely exist because the US keeps their leaders in power like, again, Saudi Arabia).

It's very weird indeed - and yet, it always seems to match with whatever 'random' country the latest shows and news reports have been demonizing.

It reminds me of that old joke:

> A KGB spy and a CIA agent meet up in a bar for a friendly drink. "I have to admit, I'm always so impressed by Soviet propaganda. You really know how to get people worked up," the CIA agent says. "Thank you," the KGB says. "We do our best but truly, it's nothing compared to American propaganda. Your people believe everything your state media tells them." The CIA agent drops his drink in shock and disgust. "Thank you friend, but you must be confused... There's no propaganda in America."

And that's only gotten more true every decade since. I don't see the US ever reaching the level of discourse where we question our 'allies' atrocities the same as [latest boogeyman]'s. And taking any accountability for our own war crimes? Not a chance. We'll invade anyone who tries (see the Hague Invasion Act).

At least when it comes to politics, the vast majority of the US lives on the Dunning-Kruger "Peak of Mount Stupid"; failing to clear the lowest possible bar while pointing fingers and laughing at everyone else.

All the money, all the access to information, and still that's where we're at. Weird af.

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