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Re: Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia

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Post by DoctorOetker » Sun, Mar 22, 2026, 4:27 PM UTC

lcnPylGDnU4H9OF wrote: post #528

DoctorOetker wrote: post #466

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> Wow, it is clear that you are trolling and acting as a propagandist. Asking a question about how Mahsa Amini died is not trolling or propaganda, its not even a statement, but a question. > You do know that you can be against violence, hatred and bigotry in general, and not just that of your ‘enemies’, right? I know that, but can you please answer the question, it is you who brought up the matter of critical thinkin…

> Asking a question about how Mahsa Amini died is not trolling or propaganda, its not even a statement, but a question. Indeed, it is trolling, even if you think it's not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning

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Re: Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia

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Post by g8oz » Sun, Mar 22, 2026, 4:33 PM UTC

alephnerd wrote: post #426

MagicMoonlight wrote: post #384

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I hope this the HN moderator team is actively looking at this. Based on the live HN dataset on HuggingFace [0], it confirms that much of HN's recent traffic doesn't align with American hours. I've also been noticing some unused and underused accounts suddenly becoming active, showing hallmarks of an LOTL attack. Given HN's unique characteristics it is actually significantly at risk for such tactics. I've also been me…

"People who don't agree with me must be foreign actors"

Or maybe you need a wider circle of friends.

Re: Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia

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Post by spaghetdefects » Sun, Mar 22, 2026, 4:33 PM UTC

rayiner wrote: post #563

spaghetdefects wrote: post #262

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> modern scholarship generally regards it as a historical novel with legendary elements, not a reliable account of Purim’s origins. It's fiction.

You're the one who brought up Purim!

Yes, that's the whole thing with theocracies, they base their decisions on fiction.

Re: Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia

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Post by DoctorOetker » Sun, Mar 22, 2026, 4:34 PM UTC

phs318u wrote: post #522

DoctorOetker wrote: post #412

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Maintaining peace is not the same as restoring peace. Perhaps the American executive should have extrapolated the consequences of their actions using a model of the real world and not the fever dream they seem to be in. I am all for the Europeans standing their ground and not letting themselves get dragged into a conflagration not of their desiring nor of their making. Trump and co are finding out that FAFO goes both…

When the Nazi regime proliferated, do you think the allies considered it of their own desire or their own making? Should they have prevented themselves from getting dragged into WW2? Or was it good they allowed themselves to get dragged into WW2 and disarm the Nazi regime?

Suppose the Allies just moved away and made "lebensraum" for the Nazi regime, would you have called it "standing their ground and not letting themselves get dragged into a conflagration not of their desiring nor of their making" ??

I think most people would understand a different course of action when reading "standing ground"...

Of course there are costs that come with peace, and if we postpone those costs for too long, the average expenditure can rise compared to timely intervention.

Re: Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia

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Post by amunozo » Sun, Mar 22, 2026, 4:42 PM UTC

UltraSane wrote: post #463

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That's horrible, but has nothing to do with this.

It really should make you want the Totalitarian Shia Theocracy running Iran to collapse.

And be substituted by what? The outcome can be worse for the Iranian people. Military foreign intervention rarely (never) manages to improve the situation, as it happened in Irak, Afghanistan, Lybia...

Re: Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia

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Post by donkeybeer » Sun, Mar 22, 2026, 4:58 PM UTC

DoctorOetker wrote: post #574

phs318u wrote: post #522

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Maintaining peace is not the same as restoring peace. Perhaps the American executive should have extrapolated the consequences of their actions using a model of the real world and not the fever dream they seem to be in. I am all for the Europeans standing their ground and not letting themselves get dragged into a conflagration not of their desiring nor of their making. Trump and co are finding out that FAFO goes both…

When the Nazi regime proliferated, do you think the allies considered it of their own desire or their own making? Should they have prevented themselves from getting dragged into WW2? Or was it good they allowed themselves to get dragged into WW2 and disarm the Nazi regime? Suppose the Allies just moved away and made "lebensraum" for the Nazi regime, would you have called it "standing their ground and not letting them…

WW2 had a clear bad side. This conflict doesn't have any clear good or bad sides. The only expansionist party in any case in this conflict is Israel.

Re: Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia

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Post by pphysch » Sun, Mar 22, 2026, 5:25 PM UTC

arbuge wrote: post #420

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Allegedly, according to the same political factions that aggressively bombed Iran just weeks later.

No, not just according to those factions. From the same CBS News article: > The U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency has recorded more than 7,000 killings, with the vast majority being protesters, while warning the toll could be far higher. Neither CBS News nor this agency are friends of the factions you mention. Facts are stubborn things.

Are you seriously suggesting that Ellison-owned CBS News and US-based "human rights" orgs are not geopolitically aligned with the US government? They are 100% in cahoots.

Re: Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia

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Post by DoctorOetker » Sun, Mar 22, 2026, 5:30 PM UTC

donkeybeer wrote: post #570

DoctorOetker wrote: post #569

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> I am not asking you if you condemn what happened to her, I think everyone condemns the fact she died in the hands of the regime, to which you respond: > Obviously, I heartily condemn all attempts by Iranian government to execute peaceful civilians in foreign countries So you change the question from "what actually happened to Mahsa Amini?" to "would you condemn?" even though I predict that any responder already agr…

That's nothing, Israelis happily kill their own Prime Ministers. But obviously I condemn Iran and I condemn Israel killing peaceful civilians, the law and the morality applies to all. I mentioned killing civilians in foreign countries as it is strictly worse, as bad as killing innocent people in your own country is, at least it also does not involve the violation of sovereignty and peace of random foreign countries.…

But what if the Mahsa Amini's case is not just a sad death in the hands of the regime, but also a violation of a treaty which Iran has signed?

Re: Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia

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Post by throwawayheui57 » Sun, Mar 22, 2026, 5:31 PM UTC

srean wrote: post #382

throwawayheui57 wrote: post #239

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In a war where Israel and US are literally bombing the hell out of Iran, fewer people have been killed than those two days of massacre. All according to the numbers confirmed by Iranian government. God, the moral depravity of defending the IRGC and islamic regime is mind boggling. You can still be against Mossad and what they do in Iran while holding the islamic regime accountable for its own atrocities.

> fewer people have been killed than those two days of massacre. So, how many have been killed in those two days of massacre exactly? A credible source please, and "killed", not "accused of killing", "allegedly killed" etc. I was following this news in real-time at that time. One thing I noticed was that media outlets started killing/withdrawing many of their stories. That made me mighty suspicious.

Here's (1) a reference from a relatively credible source with a lot of context. There's a section dedicated to the number you're looking for.

Worth adding that the regime claims around 3000 were killed while not allowing any independent investigation and also completely blocking the internet for days and arresting reporters. Mighty suspicious indeed.

But that is besides my point. Even if we go with the regime's number and compare it with the casualties of the war (2), you can get a picture of the scale of the massacre compared to an actual war against US freakin army!

1. https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2026/01/what-hap...

2. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/1/us-israel-attacks-on...

Re: Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia

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Post by user3939382 » Sun, Mar 22, 2026, 5:40 PM UTC

flyinglizard wrote: post #288

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Be serious, look at what has been done to Gaza. Israel absolutely sets out to murder civilians, en-masse.

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“ The bombing, combined with other simultaneous Israeli military actions in Gaza, killed at least 68,000 Palestinians (mostly civilians), which is between 3% and 4% of the total population of the territory, and damaged or destroyed Palestinian schools, hospitals, mosques, churches, and other civilian infrastructure including refugee camps.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_bombing_of_the_Gaza_St...

You can play word games all you like.