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minus-squareAtomic@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down6·17 hours agoNo, you guys just execute people for being black, assuming you don’t put them in modern slave camps. Iran is a shithole. The US is a shithole. I wouldn’t throw stones if I lived in a house of glass, but you do you.
minus-squareStarryPhoenix97@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·edit-214 hours agoInjustice is Injustice and shifting the conversation from one injustice to another is just deflection. Like a drunk pilot raving about substance abuse issues in the trucking industry at his trial. The post is about Iran. The line that sticks with me, always: “You’re not wrong, you’re just an asshole.”
minus-squareAtomic@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·12 hours agoYes, injustice is injustice. But there’s something to be said about the pot calling the kettle black. Like a robber telling the pickpocket he’s wrong for stealing.
minus-squareMoogleMaestro@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 hours agoExcept, in this case, it’s more like the pickpocket calling the murderer wrong. Which is appropriate, in this circumstance.
minus-squareAtomic@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 hours agoNo. It’s like the torturer calling the murderer wrong. And you sit here being like “well, at least the torturer didn’t kill anyone”.
No, you guys just execute people for being black, assuming you don’t put them in modern slave camps.
Iran is a shithole. The US is a shithole. I wouldn’t throw stones if I lived in a house of glass, but you do you.
Injustice is Injustice and shifting the conversation from one injustice to another is just deflection.
Like a drunk pilot raving about substance abuse issues in the trucking industry at his trial.
The post is about Iran.
The line that sticks with me, always: “You’re not wrong, you’re just an asshole.”
Yes, injustice is injustice. But there’s something to be said about the pot calling the kettle black.
Like a robber telling the pickpocket he’s wrong for stealing.
Except, in this case, it’s more like the pickpocket calling the murderer wrong. Which is appropriate, in this circumstance.
No. It’s like the torturer calling the murderer wrong.
And you sit here being like “well, at least the torturer didn’t kill anyone”.