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Re:Department of State advises Americans worldwide to exerci... by jghn on Sunday March 22, 2026 @09:54PM (#47484613)
I honestly thought you were talking about the US in your first paragraph.
Re:Department of State advises Americans worldwide to exerci... by JPKab on Sunday March 22, 2026 @10:05PM (#47484705)
The narcissism of small differences on full display here.

There isn't a single "red state" in the US that requires women to cover their heads and bodies in public or executes people for speaking out against the "regime".

But you pretend like that's the case, while acting like Iran was just minding their own business when they have exported terror for decades, along with drones being used to murder Ukrainian civilians. I mean, I guess supporting Ukraine was soooo 2022-23, and now we're on to the new fashion trend of supporting the people helping to murder them because "orange man bad."

Re:Department of State advises Americans worldwide to exerci... by awnird on Sunday March 22, 2026 @10:18PM (#47484776)
Israel has killed more civilians than Russia and Iran combined.

I don’t think your concern for civilian casualties is genuine.

Re:Department of State advises Americans worldwide to exerci... by jghn on Monday March 23, 2026 @11:38AM (#47490990)
I did assume you were being hyperbolic when writing it, but yes. I would think that anyone looking at the state of the US right now may see "A totalitarian theocratic regime with long range ballistic missiles and nukes" as referring to it.

Totalitarian: hyperbolic, but the state of the executive branch over the last couple of decades is moving things in that direction. And clearly one could say this to make a point.

Theocratic: A slight stretch, but mostly yes.

Long range ballistic missiles: check

Nukes: check

Re:Department of State advises Americans worldwide to exerci... by keybored on Monday March 23, 2026 @01:17PM (#47492356)
The kind of whacky religiousness that you find in the US matters because of foreign policy, among other things. (There are also domestic things like right to abortion.) The US ambassador to Israel is a Zionist that talks about the Bible with Tucker Carlson as if should have any policy weight, because he believes so. There are other (Republican) politicians that say something like the US having a Biblical responsibility to support Israel.

> The narcissism of small differences on full display here.

And what is your pose, here? The selfishness of implicitly dismissing the foreign policy implications of American religious n*jobs because you don’t live in the affected countries?