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Well, regardless of what you think of their politics, that’s a huge loss for a country with the position Iran is in right now. I hope they manage to keep calm and prevent foreign shit starting.

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It’s mind boggling to me that lemmygrad is the only place I’ve yet seen anyone show some sort of respect for a world leader dying in a violent accident. Everywhere in the media and online all I’m seeing is people glad he’s dead. As if he’s ever done anything to any of us to deserve that.

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41 points

There’s a pretty long list of other world leaders who if they went out violently like this, I’d be all ripbozo smoking on the prez pack. Unfortunately, Raeisi is not one of them.

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I likewise wouldn’t be too fussed over most other world leaders going out in a similar fashion, for sure. But not for ones that actually happen to be on the right side of history.

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Wasn’t he pretty involved in the suppression of women? All I’ve read is that he generally wasn’t well liked by any group of the citizenry of Iran

I can understand people feeling concern for Iran’s people and trajectory during a tumultuous time like this, but I don’t think anyone should feel bad he’s gone. He wasn’t a good person

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That an interesting way of looking at it. If you can find any purity argument for why a politician wasn’t progressive (he wasn’t btw) then it’s a good thing for them to just go up in a fireball. Politics by process of elimination! Say, Yemenis invited Jackson Hinkle to a Zoom conference. Maybe they should go die, too, because they’re more backward than you and the removeds got to them first! Hell, my favorite Burkina Faso reporting account randomly veers into Christian grimposting about gay people (me).

Just ignore all context for why people are nervous about this in the first place (Iran is playing a critical role in breaking the illusion of US hegemony and this could even be a pointless assassination)! Woo hoo! Billionaire down!

It’s not like this is going to make the political situation better in Iran if you view it that way. Now he will be memorialized for dying in the midst of a great struggle.

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All I’ve read is that he generally wasn’t well liked by any group of the citizenry of Iran

I don’t know where you’ve read that but i think you’re about to find out that that was a lie when you see the size of the crowds that will come out to mourn him.

Edit: And as i predicted: “Millions of Iranians rallied across the country to pay their final respects to the late President Raisi.”

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I don’t see any reason why Qassam soleimani would be more liked than Raeisi.

I think a similar sized crowd will be show up

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48 points

Interesting string of coincidences with a plot on Vucic, attempt on Fico, and now this.

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I didn’t want to put on my tinfoil hat and go all conspiracy theory on this but I was thinking the same

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25 points

lol right, like it’s just such a wild coincidence

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Vučić could go honestly ASAP… They also faked ‘‘assassination’’ attempts on him multiple times in media over the years to the point where it became a meme, examples include: alleged plan to snipe him where they put a cut photo of him visiting weapon exhibition, other one to allegedly blow him up with a rocket launcher, grenade launcher, mine etc etc.

You know scratch-that, just oof the entire Balkan political scene, this is 9th circle of hell.

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This hurts. I really wish the best for the iranian people. Even through this tough times, I hope they can come stronger from this.

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ارقد بسلام . 🌹

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31 points

The main purpose of a helicopter is to kill people.

Flying is a secondary feature.

Rip Kobe

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