Yeah, got a comment removed as „islamophobic“, calling the regime islamofascists, while at the same time rooting for the people of Iran. Some people cannot comprehend, that the enemy of my enemy is sometimes just another dictatorial regime full of assholes.

For a lot of people on here, tankies especially, anyone that opposes the West is incapable of doing harm and must be defended at all costs. Human rights abuses are ignored so long as they can go "west bad". Like, yes, the West is indeed bad. That doesn't excuse the awful actions of the regimes that oppose them nor make it okay.

There is a lot to unpack here honestly. Let me say first that I support the Iranian people in their quest for reforms. For me the second thing is history.

The US has had its hand in regime change in Iran for a long time going back to the 1950s. They helped install a dictator and remove an elected democratic leader. This arguably lead to the revolution.

So people who know history are a little bit bitter with the US and allies bombing the fuck out of Iran while calling their people to rise up.

For me it's not so much supporting the Iranian regime but seriously doubting whether any outside interference will actually help the people. Because when has it ever done so?

It's ok they are a minority, hence the downvotes, I just wish Lemmy would auto hide/fold comments below -3.

Tankies are just nationalists for other countries, it's why they're so boring and predictable in their retoric and have no problem dehumanizing anyone they disagree with, especially women. They claim to be "socialist" or "communist", but really they're just MLs who worship Stalin (& other dictators) not because of any progress they achieved in the countries they dictated (it was often minimal beyond an initial boom due to getting rid of the previous dictator) but because they said cool rhetoric against the West (often while collaborating with Western capitalists or even Nazis).

They're also loud and unpopular, the way we beat them on Lemmy is simply to grow the userbase of normal users to the point where the tankies posting their insane takes is just background noise.