Comment by theultdev
8 hours ago
Terrorists will generally target anything of opportunity.
It was also perplexing when Iran was shooting missiles at their allies, until you realize they aren't rational humans.
8 hours ago
Terrorists will generally target anything of opportunity.
It was also perplexing when Iran was shooting missiles at their allies, until you realize they aren't rational humans.
Which allies are you talking about? Gulf nations with US bases actively being used to kill their children?
You say "actively" as if it wasn'y a one-off event... maybe because Iran is forcing children to sit at IRGC checkpoints or other military targets?
None of the gulf countries allowed offensive US strikes to occur from their territory. Its all used to defend against attacks from Iran trying to kill Gulf country children.
> None of the gulf countries allowed offensive US strikes to occur from their territory.
Saudi Arabia did after Iran bombed their residential buildings and civilian airports.
UAE doesn't have any US bases but they got hit anyway.
> maybe because Iran is forcing children to sit at IRGC checkpoints or other military targets?
The school that the US hit on the first day of the war had been a school, visibly and physically separated from the military base next to it: https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/a43bac...
> they aren't rational humans.
Would you be able to point to any rational humans?
Maybe ones who don't follow supreme religious leaders that called for the gunning down of 3000 men, women, and children in the streets. And then approve beatings/the murder of doctors that treated them.
Imagine that being your moral leadership. And 3000 is the official Iranian number. Some claim as high as 30,000. Those religious leaders are calling for more murder/death in todays Friday prayers. I don't know how anyone who calls for (or especially signs off on in a religious theocracy) murder can be called spiritual leaders or anyone could follow their 'teachings' .
Edit: Just highlighting the horrors/behaviors you are normalizing/waive away as 'shared by everyone' with your statement 'but what humans aren't like this'.
> Maybe ones who ...
Ok but could you point to anyone or any people and tell me that they're rational? I didn't just ask for a possible condition of rationality and "maybe" feels like a very flimsy foundation for the acidity of what you're saying.
I think you're conflating "rational" with "moral". The question was about rationality, and from their POV (given the goal of keeping the regime going) everything was rational.
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> until you realize they aren't rational humans
How did you get to that realization?
> It was also perplexing when Iran was shooting missiles at their allies, until you realize they aren't rational humans.
Ah yes, the classic “my enemies are ontologically evil” gambit.
I'm not sure dismissing the people who invented the term "checkmate" as a bunch of irrational terrorists really works. They stared down Saddam Hussein, so how hard can it be to stare down Donald Trump?
Bombing Iran is like nuking an asteroid. Now, instead of one giant asteroid on a collision course with Earth, there are a half-dozen medium-sized radioactive asteroids on a collision course with Earth.
was iran a muslim theocracy when they invented the word “checkmate”?
congrats on the glorious past or whatever, in the actual present iran is a failed state ran and supported by loons
Similar arguments could be made about the US republic. The land of Washington, Jefferson, Franklin and Lincoln, now also speed running its way to failed state status and being run and supported by loons.