Delete FROM users WHERE location = 'Iran';

Re:Delete FROM users WHERE location = 'Iran'; by smcl on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @05:56AM (#45344908)

From our perspective common people aren't responsible. But from the perspective of the person who wrote the "your decision to arm Russia" on their website it is.

So what is interesting is that this person is fully able to assign blame to individual Iranians for their government's actions but, one would imagine, is able to separate themselves from the actions of the US government.

I wrote "one would imagine" because there was no reply so we cannot say for sure. But my experience with Americans who do this "all Iranians/North Koreans/Syrians/Iraqis etc are bad!" thing is that they carve out little exceptions for themselves and the USA so that their reasons to hate others never seem to apply to themselves.

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Re:Delete FROM users WHERE location = 'Iran'; by drstewart on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @07:42AM (#45345604)

Ironic that you're blaming all Americans but then claim no other country has any agency

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Re:Delete FROM users WHERE location = 'Iran'; by smcl on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @07:52AM (#45345686)

I think you'd do well to re-read my comments because that's not what I'm saying at all. I suspect you're more upset because I've touched a nerve. Because this is something that many Americans (and fellow Brits, I might add) are guilty of, and cannot really provide a proper justification for other than "but we're the good guys". They will often try to derail the discussion or argue to avoid confronting the uncomfortable truth

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Re:Delete FROM users WHERE location = 'Iran'; by deanishe on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @02:25PM (#45350914)

There's a certain irony in holding North Koreans or Chinese responsible for their governments' actions, but denying any responsibility for your own democratically-elected government's.

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