• @psvrh@lemmy.ca
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    Ah, is this the excuse were going to use to dilute the real issue?. That it’s Iran. Not a gun-fetishizing mentally-ill right-wing Trump supporter radicalized by his eventual target?

    We’re really trying to ignore the leopard eating all those faces.

    • FiveMacs
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      Ignore the lepord so long as it’s ripping their faces off… normal people aren’t bothered too much.

      • So, absolutely.

        But also I’ve been to massive concerts in the USA and Canada, and 100% of the time people litter more at the USA based events.

        There’s always litter though one way or another.

        • @RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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          I’m not super-familiar with Canadian attitudes and social mores, but in the time I’ve spent there I get the impression that Canadians tend to feel more socially responsible as a whole. They also tend to expect those around them also conform to that social responsibility. Of course there are going to be those that don’t conform for whatever reason ans are just assholes the same as anyplace in the world. There’s never a shortage of them.

          In the US there’s more of a fuck you attitude based partially on the you can’t tell me what to do anti-authority attitude that perversely seems to filter all the way down to basic human decency issues like simply throwing away your trash, returning shopping carts, or even having blinding LED lights festooning your pickup truck. Additionally there’s the US attitude of people being “temporarily embarrassed millionaires” where picking up trash or being responsible about its disposal is beneath the litterer, and that job is left to those beneath them.

  • Deceptichum
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    71 year ago

    Second time this year I’ve been made to cheer for Iran. What a crazy world.

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      You’re operating under the assumption that this “intelligence” is legitimate or being provided in good faith.

      If we accept that this intelligence even exists, there is a big difference between a state sanctioned plot, and signal intercepts between a couple hard-line officers blowing smoke up each other’s asses.

      All recent events show that Iran has consistently acted with restraint and moderation when dealing the theat of American military escalation.

      Color me skeptical that they would blow past all other major escalation paths, and skip straight to one that guarantees a multi-month long air campaign to flatten their entire country, followed by a ground invasion, and occupation.

      Iraq may have worked out strategically for Iran because of the cluster fuck that the occupation was, but that doesn’t mean they want that for themselves.