fuck you tankies

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mind you, this is the man who presided over the crackdown on the anti-regime protests and the massacre of tens of thousands of people at the hands of the IRGC.

you don’t have to agree with these strikes and executions. you also don’t have to mourn and wax poetic about and make martyrs out of brutal mass murders.

Ali Larijani, Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of the Islamic Republic, was eliminated this morning.

Let’s remember who Ali Larijani was. He wasn’t some harmless bureaucrat. He was a national security boss key architect of the brutal crackdown on Iran’s recent protests which resulted in the massacre of more than 32,000 unarmed Iranians. When someone responsible for that level of brutality is removed, it is not a tragedy, it is a sign of justice for defenseless victims.

In this photo he is next to Mojtaba, the regime’s new self-appointed “supreme leader.

The narrative that Israel killed Larijani because "he was the only one that could have sign an agreement with the US" is truly ludicrous.

The butcher from Tehran was not a "pragmatist" or a "peace loving" individual.

Amazing how some of those promoting this narrative are those that claim to care about the people of Iran

Israel says it has killed Ali Larijani, the de facto leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran and Gholamreza Soleimani, the head of the Basij, the infamous paramilitary force that the regime uses to suppress protests and control civilians.

In January, Larijani was said to have overseen the crackdown on protesters that resulted in many thousands of Iranians being killed in the streets by the regime and many more being imprisoned.

It isn't just the they're running defense for a barbaric mass-murderer. They don't actually know the one thing they're claiming -- that he was "a man you could maybe do business with."

He refused negotiations this very week. He was a core hardliner who just a month ago was masterminding a much bloodier crackdown than might have been.

Yes, he was a professor of Kant. He was also emphatically an ideological pillar of the regime's unique syncretism of Marxism and Shia eschatology articulated by Shariati and Khomeini.

He was a true believer willing to murder and burn to the ground anyone and anything that threatened the "revolution."

Teeth gnashing about Larijani ignores the biggest goddamn elephant bearing down on everyone in the room: The man was the chief architect of January's massacre, which killed an estimated 30,000 unarmed civilians in a few brief days. The idea that he could act as a pragmatic interlocutor after this is fanciful.

For years, Western officials called Ali Larijani a “pragmatist” and a “diplomat.”

In reality, he helped oversee one of the Islamic Republic’s most notorious propaganda operations — built on fear, coercion, and forced confessions.

In 1996, state TV aired Hoveyat (“Identity”) — an Orwellian smear campaign targeting Iran’s leading writers, historians, and intellectuals.

Week after week, they were branded traitors, Western agents, and enemies of the state.

Larijani was head of state broadcasting at the time.

This wasn’t incidental.

He defended the program publicly — accusing its targets of taking money from foreign embassies and justifying the campaign against them.

The show relied on forced confessions.

Ezzatollah Sahabi.

Gholamhossein Mirza Saleh.

Even Ali-Akbar Saeedi Sirjani — who died in custody — was made to “confess” on air after his death.

Behind Hoveyat was a coordinated system: state TV, intelligence services, and hardline media working together to crush dissent.

This is Larijani’s record.

Not a reformer. Not a centrist.

A key operator in the machinery of repression.

Obviously leftists talk about hating liberals all of the time

But when do they ally with fascists against liberals in the modern day?

this one from Toronto:

meanwhile, this is what they’re defending as “the right side of history.” the contents of this article are very graphic and triggering, please keep that in consideration before reading it.

“The delayed clarity on what exactly happened in Jersey City [2019 shooting] muted some of the public empathy that instantly followed the previous attacks. So did the identities of the attackers, both of whom were Black, and their targets, who were Hasidic Jews who, it has progressively become clear, many otherwise enlightened Americans view as absolutely fair game for bigotry.

This was obvious from reporting within hours of the attack, which gave surprising emphasis to the murdered Jews as "gentrifying" a "minority" neighborhood. This was remarkable, given that the tiny Hasidic community in question, highly visible members of the world's most consistently persecuted minority, in fact came to Jersey City fleeing gentrification, after being priced out of long-established Hasidic communities in Brooklyn. More tellingly, as the journalist Armin Rosen has pointed out, the apparently murderous rage against gentrification has yet to result in anyone using automatic weapons to blow away white hipsters at the newest Blue Bottle Coffee franchise. What was most remarkable about this angle, however, was how it was presented in media reports as providing "context."

The "context" supplied by news outlets after this attack was breathtaking in its cruelty. As the Associated Press explained in a news report about the Jersey City murders that was picked up by NBC and many other outlets, "The slayings happened in a neighborhood where Hasidic families had recently been relocating, amid pushback from some local officials who complained about representatives of the community going door to door, offering to buy homes at Brooklyn prices."

…New Jersey's state newspaper, the Star-Ledger, helpfully pointed out that "the attack that killed two Orthodox Jews, an Ecuadorian immigrant and a Jersey City police detective has highlighted racial tension that had been simmering ever since ultra-Orthodox Jews began moving to a lower-income community"—even though the assailants never lived in Jersey City, and apparently chose their target simply through internet searches for Jewish institutions in the New York area. The Washington Post began its analysis of the murders by announcing that Jersey City "is grappling with whether the attack reflects underlying ethnic tensions locally and fears that it could spark new ones" even though the rest of the article described in detail how "longtime black residents and ultra-Orthodox implants alike say that they haven't experienced significant ethnic tensions here." Nonetheless, readers were informed, "the influx of Hasidic residents comes as many of the longtime black residents feel increasingly squeezed." This was all about gentrification, the public learned. The assailants, who wore socially acceptable clothing, were expressing an understandable communal sentiment. The newly dead Jews, on the other hand, were members of the unharassed majority, despite being the country's top hate-crime target according to the FBI. They were also rich, despite experiencing the same poverty rate as the rest of New York and New Jersey. On top of that, they wore unfashionable hats. So it kind of made sense that people wanted to murder their children with high impact explosives.

I was not able to find any similar "context" in media reports after the 2015 massacre at a Black church in Charleston, South Carolina, or the 2016 massacre at an LGBTQ nightclub in Orlando, Florida, or the 2019 massacre at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas frequented by Latino shoppers—all hate-crime attacks that unambiguously targeted minority groups. In each of those cases, as was true in Jersey City, media coverage included sympathetic pieces about the victims, along with investigative pieces about the perpetrators, the latter focused on how perpetrators were drawn into violent irrational hatred… No one covered [the] "context," because doing that would be bonkers. It would be hateful victim-blaming, the equivalent of analyzing the flattering selfies of a rape victim in lurid detail in order to provide "context" for a sexual assault.”

Fuck Orban.

First billboard: "Don't let Zelensky have the last laugh!" *depicts Zelensky as The Laughing Jew*

Second billboard: "Let's send a message to Brussels: WE WILL NOT PAY!" *depicts a smirking Zelensky holding out his hand as if demanding money from Ursula von der Leyen and Manfred Weber*

Its almost like the issue was never excessive force or violence in general, the issue was that jews were at the wrong end of the violence.

How the New York Times covers terrorists:

He targeted a Jewish preschool while children were inside, for fuck sake.

-The Columbia chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine was shut down after an investigation into their funding under the Biden administration found that they were being partially funded by Hamas.

-This resulted in no arrests or expulsions, and the organization was allowed to rebrand as CUAD under the same leadership.

-Student organizers from the Columbia branches of SJP, CUAD, JVP, WoL, and other organizations are currently being sued in federal court for allegedly knowing about the Oct 7th terror attacks in advance.

-Court documents show that these student leaders had produced propaganda supporting the Oct 7th attacks before they had occurred, and were using Hamas's code name for the attacks before it was made public.

-THREE separate hostages have now gone on legal record stating that Columbia students were extensively coordinating with at least one member of Hamas who kept them captive, and that this member of Hamas told them that their coordination with Columbia University student leaders (and other student leaders) is/was extensive.

-The Columbia student defendants in this lawsuit have not denied that they coordinated with members of Hamas, only claiming that they were "unaware" he was a member of Hamas. This is despite the fact that the Hamas member who kept the hostages captive, Abdallah Aljamal, was completely open about his affiliation on social media.

This does not even scratch the surface of the raging antisemitism, overt Hamas support, and felony level hate crimes that Columbia University students have engaged in en mass over the past year and a half. It's also not even scratching the surface of the broader connections many of the parent organizations of Columbia "activist" branches have to terrorist organizations (nearly all of them have been caught funneling money into terrorist organizations.) This is just focusing on the direct involvement of Columbia student leaders specifically, with Hamas and the Oct 7th attacks.

Genuinely, what is going on right now? All of this is public information and yet it isn't being reported on at all? A lot of these students should be in federal prison, and yet they're not even being suspended, and the media consistently presents them as peaceful protesters who are being unfairly called antisemitic.

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