Iran has been fucked over by the US/UK since the 50s. They are what they are now because of the US. They’re absolutely the victims of oppression. The argument about people not wanting to be perceived as pro-iran is real, but doesn’t fully explain it because zionists and US media have painted Palestinians and “hamas” with that same brush and fear of being perceived as being pro “terrorist” has also played a role there for decades.

In both cases, they’re simply defending themselves. They’re not doing anything the US wouldn’t do if it was being attacked and invaded. One man’s terrorist is another’s freedom fighter.

As far as why Americans suddenly care about ethnic cleansing and genocide in Palestine and are willing to be identified as supporting that struggle, despite it having been ongoing even longer than US meddling in Iran, is mostly due to decades of independent media strategies employed to force Americans to look at it. Famous mainstream people are finally behind it. It’s hip now.

Also Gaza is tiny so the concentration of crimes against humanity is denser. Iran being able to defend itself presents a real cost to attacking them, leading to this mostly being a stand-off, and 150 school girls getting blown up is a far cry from 20000 children in Gaza.

Hopefully he’ll be the one wearing a blindfold.

You know, if he’s willing to take a bullet for it I say give him the Kennedy center.

https://ethics.house.gov/publications/code-official-conduct/

It’s a violation of house ethics rules. Hypocrisy aside, its just simply against the rules of a body who’s purpose is to make the laws that govern the rest of us. No tolerance or excuses for that.

If this young man was in a rational state of mind he wouldn’t have thrown himself under a semi. It’s fine and correct to recognize the driver was a victim, but pointless to critique someone having a literally suicidal mental crisis.

Value and price are not the same thing. The president of the US is one of the biggest losers on the planet, yet he’s successful if you measure him only by vapid qualities such as his title and success as a Grifter. Elon Musk, literally the richest person alive, is also a major creep. Are people who don’t support them losers because they failed at fighting the good fight?

Say what you want about Roger, but he didn’t want to be an American. He left, he didn’t come back, and the rules for dealing with people who leave are very arguably unfair and unreasonable. The fact that the Trump regime is corrupt isn’t really his fault. He actually is a true believer in non-violence. If I were him, I’d have used the money to water the tree of liberty with the blood of tyrants.

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I think your response is only half right. To the extent the service you wish to access enforces location based rules, in some cases appearing to access from a different location where those rules do not apply, you may benefit.

But for services that are EU specific where ostensibly 100% enforcement of compliance exists, then it doesn’t matter where you appear to come from.

Trivial services like Facebook–you might be able to login from another venue. Important things like your bank, the tax authority, your healthcare, insurance and so forth will be largely domestic and therefore no benefit to VPN’ing.

Good riddance.

Trump whitewashed the President’s House site so thoroughly that he had to slap forced-labor tariffs on Switzerland just to balance the books. Looks like Barron’s lanky ass is spending his summer in Geneva, doing 14-hour shifts in the Swiss chocolate mines.

Bad news for you. USA has always been genocidal maniacs. Israel is simply the forward base of operations.