You are blaming the victim of US imperialism.

I’m just wondering if they contracted the statue out to some artist without sharing their plans.

I think the first part is a safe assumption, but I can I can’t imagine any reason for secrecy. It may have been state or community or corporate funding.

Missiles and anti-Israeli chants: Iran marks the 47th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution

One of the most striking scenes involved protesters setting fire to a sculpture representing Baal, an ancient Canaanite deity often invoked as a symbol of evil. The figure was depicted with a Star of David and an image of U.S. President Donald Trump, as crowds chanted “Death to Israel.”

If I learned anything from Burning Man it’s that, in order to burn something in effigy, you first need to construct a combustible effigy.

It’s in reference to the late George Carlin’s masterful bit.

It’s simple. We kill the groundhog.

You don’t have to be a pederast to join the big club, but it helps.

Can’t viable organs only be harvested from living bodies?

No. How long after death they can be usefully harvested for tranpslant very much depends on the organ. Not long, though. Within hours in most cases, and more than a day in some. https://www.blade.com/how-long-are-organs-viable-after-death

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Curate your own feed, patriot.

This is the first time in my adult life that I’ve even considered an invasion to be in any way beneficial

Liberals oppose every war but the current one.

But the Iranians around me are telling me

They’re expats or n generations removed. They’re not in Iran, don’t know what’s really going on there and don’t speak for those who are and do.

Please tell me what you think the international community should be doing?

The international community:

After Russia it’s already the most sanctioned country in the world, and those sanctions have contributed to the discontent that fuels these protests.

Correct, and that’s exactly why the “international community” shouldn’t be imposing illegal sanctions in the first place. They’re not imposing collective punishment on the Iranian people out of the goodness of their hearts. They care about Iranians exactly as much as they care about Palestinians, namely: not a rat’s ass. Despite the bleeding heart rhetoric, the sanctions are for furthering imperialist interests, predominantly those of the US and Israel. They want regime change that vassalizes Iran.

Jeffrey Sachs: Engineering Iran’s Unrest

It’s certainly not diplomacy and it’s not coercion. It is war conducted by economic means, all designed to produce an economic crisis and social unrest leading to a fall of the government.

That’s the same reason. The “pro-monarchy insurrection” isn’t organic. It’s another facet of the imperialist hybrid war to vassalize Iran.

“War crimes on brown people are just a distraction from rape crimes on white people.”

Ultimately the problem is that the mods for the communities they frequently post to have allowed this to go on for years. They have to know by now what’s going on, and by doing nothing they tacitly endorse it.

For a hot minute that ICE agent was a US “illegal” in Ecuadorian territory.

It’s widely-know.

Anything even remotely pertaining to China is flooded with the Chinese state actors reply guys and bots.