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In reply to the discussion: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran President, Slams Homosexuality As An 'Ugly Behavior' [View all]Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)173. You're not terribly good at this.
You have been critical of comments made by Netanyahu. That doesn't mean you want to bomb Israel over them or think Israel is full of barbarians.
No, it doesn't. But then - maybe you haven't noticed - but there's no coordinated effort to propagandize Americans about the eminent and existential threat to the entire world that Israel poses for its nuclear program, there are no other nations literally campaigning in the United States to win our government's support for the mass murder of Israelis, nor does every scrap of shit that falls out of that fascist fuckwidget Avigdor Lieberman's mouth end up smeared across every news site by a media eager to justify going to war against Israel.
Now, what i'm thinking... I'm thinking that someone who is "one hundred percent opposed to war with Iran" would logically have posted things critical of those who actually want such a war. Not unreasonable, right? I mean if you oppose the war, you would oppose the warmongers. I could also reasonably expect someone who is "one hundred percent opposed to war with Iran" to not spend a lot of time posting stuff intended to damn the nation in question.
Similarly, I would expect someone who is "deeply committed to LGBT rights" to chime in on the subject pretty frequently. I mean hey, right over there, is a whole group dedicated to the subject. And it pops up pretty much everywhere else, too.
Funny how neither of these seem to be the case with regards to your posting habits.
I would think that any liberal/progressive would agree with that.
I think liberals and progressives would have stuff to say about liberal / progressive issues. You don't, yet you seem pretty quick on the draw on setting rules for us to play by. You're just an awfully complicated fellow, aren't you?
Has there been a point in the last six years where Ahmedinejad has said something that didn't make him a giant asshole? Honestly, has there? Or for that matter, has he said anything in the last five years, that he hadn't already said in that first one?
Yes, there is justification for dismissing and ignoring it. it's the same justification for dismissing and ignoring Fred Phelps or Rush Limbaugh when they do the exact same asshole act. You know it's coming, you know they've got nothing else, and you know that it's a grab for your attention. "Ahmedinejad said something assholish" isn't news, it's just a bland statement of accepted fact. Yet, you seem compelled to give us minute-by-minute updates on what an asshole he is.
I suppose that much like another poster, and their constant posts about what a steaming heap of absolute shit Julian Assange is, you have absolutely no agenda, no ulterior motive, and are just a dispassionate, uninterested informant.
My advice? Go pad your post count in the LGBT forum before heaping praise on yourself for how committed to the cause you are. Post some shit critical of the warmongers screaming for war against Iran, before clapping your own back about how much you are against the idea of such a war. And make some input on actual progressive issues before you try to set rules for progressives to follow.
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran President, Slams Homosexuality As An 'Ugly Behavior' [View all]
oberliner
Sep 2012
OP
You should start a thread about that then, instead of engaging in false comparisons and
MADem
Sep 2012
#55
perhaps the question of why these other leaders are not being interviewed on CNN
azurnoir
Sep 2012
#126
The more isolated and threatened the regime, the worse things are for normal people, including gays.
leveymg
Sep 2012
#84
The Iranian regime, whatever you may think of it, has a much broader base of support than any
leveymg
Sep 2012
#117
That's been the working consensus for a long time, which is why Hillary didn't push regime change
leveymg
Sep 2012
#142
ROFL. Same reason the US didn't hold a national referendum in 1955 on adopting Communism.
leveymg
Sep 2012
#149
Why don't we worry about our OWN human rights record first, Zippy?
self-realized sadge
Sep 2012
#106
Well said--I love the Iranian people, I just don't think much of their unfortunate dictatorship. nt
MADem
Sep 2012
#59
WTF??? "Imo, preventing another unecessery war is more important than lgbt rights in Iran."
MADem
Sep 2012
#58
That was an amazing statement. I had to read it three times to make sure I wasn't...
Bad_Ronald
Sep 2012
#141
Oberliner posts a lot on the I/P forum; that's why many of his posts relate to Israel
LeftishBrit
Sep 2012
#122
"Imo, preventing another unecessery war is more important than lgbt rights in Iran"
Bad_Ronald
Sep 2012
#139
I think it's an okay country (landscape/cities) with shitty ass stupid fundie government
snooper2
Sep 2012
#85
That is false, she said IF Iran nuked another nation, we'd respond without quarter.
Bluenorthwest
Sep 2012
#64
Do you have a quote from her? I don't. The other poster was lying about what she
Bluenorthwest
Sep 2012
#79
I have your quote "she said IF Iran nuked another nation, we'd respond without quarter"
bahrbearian
Sep 2012
#83
I don't know, dear, I'm not talking about Israel as you want to for some reason
Bluenorthwest
Sep 2012
#91
Start with specifics. If you condemn 'most' of the anti gay rhetoric, which parts do
Bluenorthwest
Sep 2012
#75
Ah, so you still refuse to specify which parts of their rhetoric you agree with. Got it.
Bluenorthwest
Sep 2012
#92
The same 'leader' said much of the same stuff last time he came to the UN
Bluenorthwest
Sep 2012
#78
Fail. The Americans pounding the war drum hold the same bigoted, anti- values as the Iranian leader.
Viking12
Sep 2012
#171
The American hawks want to invade Iran because its government persecutes gays?
LeftishBrit
Sep 2012
#189
"Frankly most if not all Muslims, Christians and Jews are against Homosexuality"
oberliner
Sep 2012
#45
well "lapsed and /or recovering" can have a very differnt meaning from atheist
azurnoir
Sep 2012
#158
Yes - and he ought to be rhetorically savaged as brutally as far RW Republicans
oberliner
Sep 2012
#48
Religious fundamentalists do sound a lot alike even when they hate each other as enemies.
pampango
Sep 2012
#70
All authoritarian extremists sound like that, regardless of where they are politically
slackmaster
Sep 2012
#71
I have read that homosexuality is prevalent in Islamic countries, especially among young males.
olegramps
Sep 2012
#95
Back in the 1980s I had a job with several gay male co-workers who had worked for EDS in Iran...
slackmaster
Sep 2012
#113
Tell me again why condemning this man's homophobia & bigotry is tantamount to advocating war with...
Bad_Ronald
Sep 2012
#120
The band who Rocked The Ayatollahs with Pink Floyd, Now Take On Romney With Simon and Garfunkel
BVM
Sep 2012
#127
He's just like the religious right in the U.S., except he is not constrained by the Consitution.
SunSeeker
Sep 2012
#128
Any other world leader makes these comments - and the reaction would be condemnation
oberliner
Sep 2012
#145
Did I somehow miss the bit in this thread that calls for bombing or invading Iran?
ButterflyBlood
Sep 2012
#186
If a leader of US/France/Canada/Germany/UK/Japan/ETC said this in an interview, it would
octothorpe
Sep 2012
#199