Iranian state media has confirmed that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed during the strikes the United States and Israel conducted on the country. NBC News' Gabe Gutierrez reports from the White House on what impact the leader's death could have on the country and region.

Feel free to use this a megathread for the US/Israeli war on Iran.

    • A🔻atar of 🔻engeance@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Hard to grab good examples in the current state of his Telegram/Twitter/etc. apart from the famous ones like “woman is a flower” and the ones about never ever being mean to your wife (man was a great strategist). This is the vibe though:

      I have some older articles saved regarding misconceptions about Iranians having the ISIS misogyny thing going on. Great examples in there. I will dig those up and ping you when I post them. Also should repost stuff like Booker Omole’s thoughts on their revolution.

      • Maeve@kbin.earth
        111·
        4 months ago

        Those are really sweet spirited. I wonder how he was IRL.

        Edit also thank you. Sorry. They made me want to cry.

        • A🔻atar of 🔻engeance@lemmy.mlEnglish
          211·
          4 months ago

          They really are, when I checked out the discussion group for his official Telegram chat, the stuff people were posting surprised me because it was all flower-themed, intensely so. Pink and red petals everywhere. Of course currently it is very death to America but the aesthetic for that is on point as well:

              • A🔻atar of 🔻engeance@lemmy.mlEnglish
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                4 months ago

                This is antiquated cold war nuke mysticism. We have seen with the Ukraine conflict that both sides having nukes closes off higher escalation options (which is good because the conflict is more contained and the U.S. is afraid to do quite as much direct, open terrorism not under Ukraine’s own flag). We have seen the DPRK stay safe and snug while RoK repeatedly tears their pedophile dictators apart in the streets for sport. Why shouldn’t we all have nukes? I can make a better argument to my government than you can make to me. 😁

                You want to denuclearize. Okay, I want a classless society. You want to know how we get there? Global one party nuclearized state.

                  • A🔻atar of 🔻engeance@lemmy.mlEnglish
                    11·
                    4 months ago

                    Under the current circumstances encouraging people to get nukes should be a priority for their survival, since the US is not going to let them develop a civilian nuclear program anyways! Whether or not this is “bad” morally to you or it makes you scared is frankly irrelevant to me so I’m sorry if I didn’t respond on exactly the same terms. I’m trying to be constructive I promise mostly kinda and a little joking around. Let off some steam. Bro thinks he is Hegel

                    I will add you probably live in a country with nukes and I don’t, which might explain my sense of urgency here! Maybe not just going based off fediverse stats

                    Do I need to add why countries nuclearizing is important for dealing with climate change?

                  • orc girly@lemmy.ml
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                    4 months ago

                    Dialectical materialism is unconcerned with morality, I don’t like nukes either, they freak me out, but if having some is necessary for people to not be terrorized then my feelings don’t matter.