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Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?

Posted by Mitch45 on Sat Jan 10 19:08:05 2026

https://vinnews.com/2026/01/10/as-iran-protests-escalate-and-casualties-mount-security-forces-are-on-high-alert/

Iranian civilians who want freedom from tyranny are getting shot down in the streets like dogs by Revolutionary Guard snipers. Where are the freedom-loving lefties in this country? I guess Arab-on-Arab violence is okay with the left.

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Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?

Posted by LuchAAA on Sat Jan 10 19:27:44 2026, in response to Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?, posted by Mitch45 on Sat Jan 10 19:08:05 2026.

Men will never learn. The women will turn on them.

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Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?

Posted by Spider-Pig on Sat Jan 10 20:33:58 2026, in response to Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?, posted by Mitch45 on Sat Jan 10 19:08:05 2026.

What Arabs? What kind of ignorant fucking dumbass are you?

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Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?

Posted by Spider-Pig on Sat Jan 10 20:37:49 2026, in response to Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?, posted by LuchAAA on Sat Jan 10 19:27:44 2026.

What does that have to do with anything?

You support the Homomeini’s regime forcing their beautiful women into beekeeper suits?

مرگ بر خامنه‌ای

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Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?

Posted by TRAIN DUDE on Sat Jan 10 22:05:06 2026, in response to Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?, posted by Mitch45 on Sat Jan 10 19:08:05 2026.

In the late 1970s, leftist college students marched and rioted to rid their nation of the Shah. They succeeded in 1979 and have had to live under the brutal utopia that they sought. Now, nearly 50 years later their children and grandchildren are paying a very high price for what those fucking morons caused. When US liberals fuck things up here, hopefully their children and grandchildren won't suffer the same fate.

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Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?

Posted by TRAIN DUDE on Sat Jan 10 22:08:10 2026, in response to Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?, posted by Spider-Pig on Sat Jan 10 20:33:58 2026.

Much the same as you are. You think that you are more intelligent than you really are. You know things but don't understand texture.

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Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?

Posted by Spider-Pig on Sat Jan 10 22:21:02 2026, in response to Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?, posted by TRAIN DUDE on Sat Jan 10 22:05:06 2026.

It’s not liberals fucking things up here.

I agree with you about the leftists.

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Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?

Posted by Spider-Pig on Sat Jan 10 22:21:51 2026, in response to Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?, posted by TRAIN DUDE on Sat Jan 10 22:08:10 2026.

What?

I find his characterization of Persia ignorant and offensive.

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Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?

Posted by LuchAAA on Sat Jan 10 23:24:32 2026, in response to Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?, posted by Spider-Pig on Sat Jan 10 20:37:49 2026.

you don't understand the female collective.

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Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?

Posted by Train Dude on Sat Jan 10 23:40:00 2026, in response to Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?, posted by Spider-Pig on Sat Jan 10 22:21:02 2026.

You persist in splitting hairs.

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Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?

Posted by Train Dude on Sat Jan 10 23:46:02 2026, in response to Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?, posted by Spider-Pig on Sat Jan 10 22:21:51 2026.

While you find it incorrect, most people conflate Iran with middle east arabs rather than indo-european. What I don't understand is why you'd find the technical error offensive as I don't believe that you are of Persian descent.

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Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?

Posted by Orange Blossom Special on Sun Jan 11 00:50:01 2026, in response to Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?, posted by Mitch45 on Sat Jan 10 19:08:05 2026.

""Where are the freedom-loving lefties in this country?"

They are in mourning. They are the same ones who mourn and put up busts of General Solimani

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Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters—Where are the Demonstrations Here?

Posted by Olog-hai on Sun Jan 11 01:19:30 2026, in response to Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?, posted by Mitch45 on Sat Jan 10 19:08:05 2026.

Where are the freedom-loving lefties in this country?

Don't use oxymorons.

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Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?

Posted by Spider-Pig on Sun Jan 11 10:53:47 2026, in response to Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?, posted by Train Dude on Sat Jan 10 23:40:00 2026.

It’s an important hair to split. Liberals and leftists are NOT the same. Or would you be OK if I called you a fascist?

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Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?

Posted by Spider-Pig on Sun Jan 11 10:54:39 2026, in response to Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?, posted by LuchAAA on Sat Jan 10 23:24:32 2026.

Answer the question.

You think there is anything that justifies keeping the Homomeini regime alive?

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Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?

Posted by Spider-Pig on Sun Jan 11 11:00:46 2026, in response to Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?, posted by Train Dude on Sat Jan 10 23:46:02 2026.

I find it offensive because I feel for the Iranians stuck under their 47 year nightmare.

The reason that people conflate Iran with the Arabs is because of Homomeini’s “Arabization” of their country. He took what was unique about them and subordinated it to an alien culture.

Look at recent protests in London, they flew the lion and sun flag with the Israeli flag. King Cyrus is the one who let my ancestors rebuild the Temple.

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Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?

Posted by Mitch45 on Sun Jan 11 11:12:07 2026, in response to Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?, posted by Train Dude on Sat Jan 10 23:40:00 2026.

As my Contracts professor in law school used to say “you are making a distinction without a difference.”

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Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?

Posted by Mitch45 on Sun Jan 11 11:15:53 2026, in response to Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?, posted by Spider-Pig on Sun Jan 11 10:53:47 2026.

The day the Democratic Party formally disavows the liberals, I will agree with you. But they never will and you know it.

Today, with very few exceptions, in 2026, the Democratic Party, liberals and leftists are all in the same basket of deplorables, to quote Mrs. Clinton.

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Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?

Posted by Spider-Pig on Sun Jan 11 11:29:31 2026, in response to Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?, posted by Mitch45 on Sun Jan 11 11:15:53 2026.

Why would they disavow the liberals? You’re baffled.

I would actually like to see the Democrats finally disavow Bernie Sanders and end the nightmare he started.

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Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?

Posted by Mitch45 on Sun Jan 11 12:45:47 2026, in response to Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?, posted by Spider-Pig on Sun Jan 11 11:29:31 2026.

Is Bernie not a liberal?

Why don’t you explain what you believe to be the difference between liberals and leftists in today’s society?

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Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?

Posted by Spider-Pig on Sun Jan 11 13:24:50 2026, in response to Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?, posted by Mitch45 on Sun Jan 11 12:45:47 2026.

No, he’s not. He’s not for liberty, he’s a socialist. Socialism is an inherently coercive ideology.

That’s the difference right there. If you’re a socialist, you’re not a liberal. Democrats during the First Cold War understood this distinction.

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Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?

Posted by AlM on Sun Jan 11 14:30:34 2026, in response to Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?, posted by Spider-Pig on Sun Jan 11 13:24:50 2026.

Socialism is an inherently coercive ideology.

Every ideology except pure libertarianism (which is a disaster for other reasons) is inherently at least somewhat coercive.

Liberals (and conservatives too) support zoning, income tax, restrictions on drugs, the regulatory state in general, etc. It's all just a matter of degree and emphasis.



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Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?

Posted by Spider-Pig on Sun Jan 11 17:01:59 2026, in response to Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?, posted by AlM on Sun Jan 11 14:30:34 2026.

There’s a major difference of scale.

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Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?

Posted by Spider-Pig on Sun Jan 11 17:05:12 2026, in response to Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?, posted by Mitch45 on Sat Jan 10 19:08:05 2026.

It was always about hating the Jews.

FREE IRAN!

FUCK GAZA!

FUCK “PALESTINE!”

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Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?

Posted by Mitch45 on Sun Jan 11 21:48:20 2026, in response to Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?, posted by Spider-Pig on Sun Jan 11 13:24:50 2026.

That isn't what I asked you. I asked you for the difference between liberals and leftists.

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Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?

Posted by Spider-Pig on Mon Jan 12 00:10:47 2026, in response to Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?, posted by Mitch45 on Sun Jan 11 21:48:20 2026.

WTF? I answered your question precisely.

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Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters—Where are the Demonstrations Here?

Posted by Olog-hai on Mon Jan 12 00:24:46 2026, in response to Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?, posted by Mitch45 on Sun Jan 11 21:48:20 2026.

There is none.

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Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?

Posted by LuchAAA on Mon Jan 12 01:28:55 2026, in response to Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?, posted by Spider-Pig on Sun Jan 11 10:54:39 2026.

you don't understand female nature. Women are behind this unrest.

As for the current regime, I'm not defending them. Just stating who is behind the organized unrest.

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Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?

Posted by LuchAAA on Mon Jan 12 01:30:25 2026, in response to Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?, posted by Spider-Pig on Sun Jan 11 10:53:47 2026.

Liberals and leftists

Thanks for posting here.

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Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?

Posted by BILLBKLYN on Mon Jan 12 02:58:54 2026, in response to Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?, posted by Mitch45 on Sun Jan 11 21:48:20 2026.

The Luberal doesn't have the stomach for violence. The Leftist is all about violence and vandalism. The Liberal secretly or not so secretly approves of the Leftist tactics as most (not all) of their agendas align.

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Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters—Where are the Demonstrations Here?

Posted by Olog-hai on Mon Jan 12 04:29:59 2026, in response to Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?, posted by BILLBKLYN on Mon Jan 12 02:58:54 2026.

In that case, a "liberal" is a leftist who's waiting to get paid to get violent.

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Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?

Posted by Spider-Pig on Mon Jan 12 09:54:11 2026, in response to Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?, posted by BILLBKLYN on Mon Jan 12 02:58:54 2026.

The first part is correct, the second part is not.

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Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?

Posted by Spider-Pig on Mon Jan 12 09:55:36 2026, in response to Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?, posted by LuchAAA on Mon Jan 12 01:28:55 2026.

Well then, good for women. They are helping save humanity.

The fall of the Mullahs would be a major victory on the level of 1989.

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Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?

Posted by Spider-Pig on Mon Jan 12 09:56:12 2026, in response to Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?, posted by LuchAAA on Mon Jan 12 01:30:25 2026.

You’re welcome. I embiggen this board with my cromulent observations.

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Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?

Posted by Mitch45 on Mon Jan 12 11:17:55 2026, in response to Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?, posted by Spider-Pig on Mon Jan 12 00:10:47 2026.

No you did not. I asked for your interpretation of the difference between liberals and leftists, not liberals and socialists.

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Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?

Posted by Spider-Pig on Mon Jan 12 11:19:53 2026, in response to Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?, posted by Mitch45 on Mon Jan 12 11:17:55 2026.

Leftists are socialists, or communists.

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Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?

Posted by AlM on Mon Jan 12 11:51:55 2026, in response to Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?, posted by Mitch45 on Mon Jan 12 11:17:55 2026.

What on earth do you think is the difference between "leftist" and "socialist" in the United States?

(I specify "in the United States" to rule out historical leftists like Lenin.)





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Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?

Posted by Orange Blossom Special on Mon Jan 12 12:43:51 2026, in response to Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?, posted by Mitch45 on Sat Jan 10 19:08:05 2026.

They're all too busy and don't have the IQ to care.



Most people (or myself) will think of "student" protestors and 5 people pouring ketchup on themselves disrupting Amtrak service. Don't forget in the terror hotbeds of London and Sydney, they have entire city-population sized groups marching carrying terror flags.

Soon they'll be back, holding Iranian flags if that regime falls.

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Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?

Posted by Spider-Pig on Mon Jan 12 13:27:10 2026, in response to Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?, posted by AlM on Mon Jan 12 11:51:55 2026.

I mean Lenin was a socialist. Communists are a kind of socialist but of course not all socialists are communists.

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Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?

Posted by AlM on Mon Jan 12 16:58:29 2026, in response to Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?, posted by Spider-Pig on Mon Jan 12 13:27:10 2026.

Bernie Sanders and Lenin are both socialists. But even ignoring Lenin's authoritarianism, there are vast differences between the two. Sanders advocates a much weaker form of government ownership of the means of production.



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Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?

Posted by Spider-Pig on Mon Jan 12 17:20:26 2026, in response to Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?, posted by AlM on Mon Jan 12 16:58:29 2026.

That's no consolation. It's not like the choice is between Sanders and Lenin, it's between Sanders and free markets.

Nowadays the erstwhile Republican Party is anti-markets too. This is what poopulism does to an economy.

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Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?

Posted by TRAIN DUDE on Mon Jan 12 19:12:24 2026, in response to Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?, posted by AlM on Mon Jan 12 16:58:29 2026.

Pretty lame even for you@

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Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?

Posted by Orange Blossom Special on Mon Jan 12 21:49:23 2026, in response to Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?, posted by BILLBKLYN on Mon Jan 12 02:58:54 2026.

Thank you for this concise and excellent explanation of the difference. I understand the slight variation between the two now.

It's like when a muzzie kidnaps a joo and brings them to their highrise home (in Paris or Rafah) and tortures them for weeks. The other muzzies aren't prone to violence, they just accept and enable it. It's the "few radicalized ones" that will do the act.

Much like those fish that follow sharks, they will always be found together, so there are no peaceful majorities in real life.

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Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?

Posted by Olog-hai on Mon Jan 12 22:37:48 2026, in response to Re: Tehran Killing Dozens of Civilian Protesters: Where are the Demonstrations Here?, posted by Mitch45 on Mon Jan 12 11:17:55 2026.

All three words are synonyms.

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