• doubtingtammy@lemmy.ml
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    7 hours ago

    Democrats did all that talk about how troops shouldn’t follow “illegal orders,” then are totally silent when these brave officers and enlisted follow blatantly illegal orders. But they don’t want the president to lose that power for their dream blue maga presidential candidate.

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    Their misguided religion was maybe going to lead them to attack Isreal and the US someday, so Isreal and the US preemptively attacked them unprovoked instead, guided by our superior religions. The hypocrisy is completely lost on me, as well as the irony of, again, justifying their antagonism towards Isreal and the US in the first place for the umpteenth time.

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    Yeah… Probably nothing to do with the fact we’ve been fucking with them since we helped to overthrow their Shah…

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      It was the CIA who put the “Shah” into power in the 1953 coup. Before this Iran had a democratically elected prime minister who nationalised the country’s oil, his name was Mohammad Mosaddegh. The USA have never been big fans of middle Eastern countries controlling their own oil.

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      For anyone else who never heard the term before: In political theory and theology, to immanentize the eschaton is a generally pejorative phrase referring to attempts to bring about utopian conditions in the world, and to effectively create heaven on earth. Theologically, the belief is akin to postmillennialism as reflected in the Social Gospel of the 1880–1930 era, as well as Protestant reform movements during the Second Great Awakening in the 1830s and 1840s such as abolitionism

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    18 hours ago

    All religions are misguided. People, in this situation, just use them as an excuse to kill each other.

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    18 hours ago

    this is poor writing, highly ambiguous, there’s no way to tell from context which country “its” is supposed to refer to

    edit for those apparently not getting it: there is, but only because we know he’s a hypocrite