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.Iran confirms the killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in the US and Israel’s ongoing attacks on the country.
Iranian media say Khamenei’s daughter, son-in-law, and grandson were also killed.

www.aljazeera.com

IRAN CONFIRMS KHAMENEI’S KILLING IN US-ISRAEL STRIKES

Explosions heard in Tehran, elsewhere, as Israel and US launch attacks; Iran retaliates, blasts across region.
www.aljazeera.com www.aljazeera.com
 
Sharkman84 said:
Ayatollah Khamenei, reported killed by US-Israeli airstrikes, embodied fearsome anti-Western rule -

www.reuters.com

Ayatollah Khamenei, reported killed by US-Israeli airstrikes, embodied fearsome anti-Western rule

Khamenei's death would represent a massive blow to the Islamic Republic that he had led since 1989.
www.reuters.com www.reuters.com
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Reddit is fuming because "West bad, Muslim good". While I’m against strikes on civilians like what happened in Venezuela, I do think dictators (like Nicolás Maduro) need to be ousted. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was a terrible leader and a suppressive dictator who ruined Iran and treated Iranians like shit, especially minorities, women and the LGBT community.
 
HonestSpursFan said:
Reddit is fuming because "West bad, Muslim good". While I’m against strikes on civilians like what happened in Venezuela, I do think dictators (like Nicolás Maduro) need to be ousted. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was a terrible leader and a suppressive dictator who ruined Iran and treated Iranians like shit, especially minorities, women and the LGBT community.
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Reddit/BlueSky are full of mentally ill, batshit crazy people.
 
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HonestSpursFan said:
Identity politics and wedge issues at their finest. Wars are bad but they’re not a priority issue.
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If a political party that puts environmental and ecological issues at the heart of their platform then I can, perhaps get with that.

But of course, they also have to have a policies in geo-poltical, economic, social and cultural matters too.

But it's becoming apparent that in some cases party's such as The Greens are far more invested in cherry-picking contentious subjects that generate headlines, rather than focusing on long-term structural reform within their political remit and what needs to happen, in the communities they are supposed to be representing. Or wanting to represent....

They don't seem to build coalitions with their communities, they're more interested in chasing outrage. Thriving on flashpoints and not foundations.

I mean, who needs boring policy detail when there’s a perfectly good culture war to join?

This is a problem with political entities on the hard right too, as well as the hard left...
 
Football us life said:
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If a political party that puts environmental and ecological issues at the heart of their platform then I can, perhaps get with that.

But of course, they also have to have a policies in geo-poltical, economic, social and cultural matters too.

But it's becoming apparent that in some cases party's such as The Greens are far more invested in cherry-picking contentious subjects that generate headlines, rather than focusing on long-term structural reform within their political remit and what needs to happen, in the communities they are supposed to be representing. Or wanting to represent....

They don't seem to build coalitions with their communities, they're more interested in chasing outrage. Thriving on flashpoints and not foundations.

I mean, who needs boring policy detail when there’s a perfectly good culture war to join?

This is a problem with political entities on the hard right too, as well as the hard left...
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I think they left the environment stuff behind a long time ago. Look at the Australian Greens, at the last election Aussie lefties and protest voters turned their backs on them in key seats and they ended up winning one seat marginally on preferences (Ryan, which realistically Labor should’ve won and the LNP normally hold it but the federal party is too right-wing for city voters at the moment). This also disputes the argument some make that quote “LGBT people are stupid and support Palestine even though Palestine hates them” (Zionist forums seem to post this a lot and claim that LGBT Jews are “regularly harassed” by LGBT non-Jews). A lot of the voters that left the Greens were LGBT.
 
HonestSpursFan said:
A lot of the voters that left the Greens were LGBT.
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When two worlds collide....

The LGBTQI+ communities would normally be unconditionally nailed on Greens.

But if the Greens are outwardly supportive of a particular ideology that criminalises same-sex relationships, opposes same-sex marriage, restricts gender expression and frame's LGBTQI+ identities as incompatible with their religious doctrine, then that unconditional support could well be tested....
 
Football us life said:
The LGBTQI+ communities would normally be unconditionally nailed on Greens.
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Most LGBT people haven’t ever voted Greens. They have a higher rate of doing so but typically they’ll also vote Labor, teal or for moderate Liberals/Nationals in Australia. In the US queer people seem to be quite a solidly Democratic voting bloc but that’s because moderate Republicans are unfortunately hard to come across these days, otherwise even if the Democrats were still the party of choice it’d be closer like in Australia.

Football us life said:
But if the Greens are outwardly supportive of a particular ideology that criminalises same-sex relationships, opposes same-sex marriage, restricts gender expression and frame's LGBTQI+ identities as incompatible with their religious doctrine, then that unconditional support could well be tested....
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I have friends who are LGB, some vote Labor, some Liberal, some teal. All of them agree with this though and some are afraid to even go to any Islamic areas because of discrimination.
 
Football us life said:
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If a political party that puts environmental and ecological issues at the heart of their platform then I can, perhaps get with that.

But of course, they also have to have a policies in geo-poltical, economic, social and cultural matters too.

But it's becoming apparent that in some cases party's such as The Greens are far more invested in cherry-picking contentious subjects that generate headlines, rather than focusing on long-term structural reform within their political remit and what needs to happen, in the communities they are supposed to be representing. Or wanting to represent....

They don't seem to build coalitions with their communities, they're more interested in chasing outrage. Thriving on flashpoints and not foundations.

I mean, who needs boring policy detail when there’s a perfectly good culture war to join?

This is a problem with political entities on the hard right too, as well as the hard left...
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Almost like a party can have more than one policy, but people don't realise that because they don't do their research.

Sounds far better to spout media sound bites and cliches than get involved in education
 
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