Violent clashes between protesters and security forces in Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi and in the country’s north left at least 22 people dead and more than 120 others injured as demonstrators supportive of the Iranian government attempted to storm a U.S. Consulate on Sunday, authorities said.

In the north of the country, demonstrators attacked U.N. and government offices.

The violence came after the United States and Israel attacked Iran, killing its Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Police and officials at a hospital in Karachi said that at least 50 people were also wounded in the clashes and some of them were in critical condition.

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[–] 73 points 8 months ago (40 children)

The president of peace ladies and gentlemen

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  • [–] 20 points 8 months ago (26 children)

    Lol. People thought the dem candidate was somehow a worse prospect.

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  • [–] 26 points 8 months ago (14 children)

    But she was a lady, and black, and laughed, how could that have gone well...

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (13 children)

    If Democrats want to win elections, they need to run candidates that care about the working class.

    Running on a platform of "deficit spending" is not enough. They need to raise taxes on the people taking us for a ride.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (12 children)

    Of course! She would have started a war for greenland, hunted lgbt people and immigrants, and annexed mexico too! Without congessional approval!

    Waiter! Ill have what the other guy is smoking!

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (9 children)

    If that stuff really matters to you, then you should encourage Democrats to support the working class so they don't lose elections.

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  • [–] 0 points 8 months ago (8 children)

    Ya. You said that to the other guy too.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (7 children)

    Yes. Most of you still don't get it which is why Democrats keep losing to Donald Trump.

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  • [–] -3 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    Because trump cares so much about the working class. Right. Way to explain your point.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    You can keep repeating the same mistakes expecting different results and Republicans will continue to win elections. Or, you can learn from your mistakes and do something differently. Democrats use social issues to distract from fiscal ones, and people like you fall for it consistently.

    Stop being part of the problem if you genuinely want to stop Republicans. What you're currently doing is not working.

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  • [–] -2 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    I dont have to repeat shit. It took just one bad move on the part of the sitouts to get us here. So while youre waiting on your ideal progressive candidate, the adults are trying to get things back to a manageable state. Then youre welcome to talk to me about changing stuff. Otherwise stfu or bend over and take trump like everyone else.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Ok. Hope you like JD Vance as president.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    How much you wanna bet that guy will vote for Gavin Newsom.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    I wouldn't vote for him in the primary. But if Newsome wins the primary, I will absolutely hold my nose and vote for him, just like I did with Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden. To vote any other way, come Nov 2028, is to guarantee 4 more R years, and if you would do differently you're not a serious person.

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  • [+] 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)
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  • [–] -3 points 8 months ago (10 children)

    In this case, it doesn't really matter.

    Kamala is an Israeli puppet as well.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (9 children)

    You're fucking delusional if you think she would have just randomly bombed Iran too

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  • [–] -2 points 8 months ago (7 children)

    How so?

    Biden and Harris went along with child genocide and a state-engineered famine. They would 100% bomb Iran if Benny told them to.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    No they didn't. They still supported Israel, but they were making statements about tempering Israel's approach. As Israel got worse and worse under trump's encouragement, I'm pretty sure a democrat (or anyone sane) would have pushed back a lot more on Israel. Not enough, probably. But better is better.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    they were making statements about tempering Israel’s approach.

    Actions speak louder than words.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    Absolutely. But diplomacy starts with words and it sometimes works. We don't know what would have happened next if trump hadn't fucked everything ten times over. We know trump actively encouraged the genocide, so it's a significant difference.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago* (3 children)

    they were making statements about tempering Israel’s approach

    LOL, they made statements about Israel's approach for four years... but supported every single thing those murderers did. Their words are meaningless because when Benny tells them to jump, they jump.

    And when Benny told them to bomb Iran, they'd have done it.

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  • [–] 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Obviously, you can't know that, so you are just making things up to fit your world view. But whatever, if you're happy with the destruction trump allowed on Gaza, I can't help you. Good luck.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    I love how Democrats suddenly pretend to care about these things once leadership changes.

    All I heard from you for four years were excuses for genocide.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    I haven't seen anything like the current actions before in Israel. Previous to the Oct attack response, the only significant calls for genocide in the area came from Muslims. Israel treated people in Gaza terribly, and illegally kept expanding their settlements. But it was nothing like any conventional use of the word 'genocide' would be. Things changes throughout '24, but it was a slow transition and with all the lies on both sides, it wasn't clear until the end of December how much Isreal had gone off the deep end. And then trump came into power and encouraged them and it got significantly worse. So I'm not sure where your 'years of excuses' comes from because it doesn't fit the actual timeline.

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  • [+] -28 points 8 months ago (11 children)

    at least 22 people dead and more than 120 others injured as demonstrators supportive of the Iranian government

    nothing of value lost

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  • [–] 27 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    People should have a right to protest - even if they're dumbasses protesting for idiotic things. Devaluing a life just because the person behind it is a dumbass is very much a Nazi tactic. You don't dehumanise stupid. You help it realise and reconcile it's stupidity.

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  • [+] -6 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

    People should have a right to protest

    Sure?

    You help it realise and reconcile it’s stupidity

    What level of management speak is this?

    I also like how you jumped from violent mobs tries to burn US consulate staff alive to: you need to have a calm moment with them, sit them down, have a chat, maybe some tea and talk it over? 🤣

    I'm not sure you'd be quite so forgiving if you were inside the embassy about to be gang raped and beheaded

    This is still my favourite violent mob:

    Kumara, who was an ethnic Sinhalese and a Buddhist by faith[7] and had lived and worked in Pakistan for eleven years,[8] was beaten, killed and later set on fire by a mob in Sialkot. He had been accused of blasphemy for removing a poster featuring religious content. It was later revealed that Kumara had removed the poster due to pending renovation work in the building, and was falsely accused of blasphemy by workers of the factory.[9

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Priyantha_Kumara

    Youch!

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I'd like to know how you jumped from "demonstrators in support of the Iranian government" to "deserves to die."

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  • [–] -2 points 8 months ago

    I didn't say that, I said I don't give a shit that they died

    They violently attacked the US embassy hoping to kill everyone inside because they're upset their evil dictator who last month murdered upwards of 30,000 people died.

    See if I give a shit

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    People you don’t like are dead and you’re devaluing their lives. What makes you different from them?

    Please learn from this.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Absolutely. I devalue the lives of people hellbent on ending other people's lives.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    I'm not sure I'd phrase it as a celebration, but the media referring to this as a protest is disingenuous at best. The number of videos I've seen of dudes shooting guns at the embassy is enough for me to come to my own conclusions about this "protest."

    And if you're going to shoot at a building filled with American appointed officials, guarded by Marine Security Guards, you're probably going to die doing so.

    Ideally, this all could have been avoided by not starting another war, but here we are.

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  • [+] -7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    How about this: I hope they died slowly, painfully, the same way Iranian protesters are when they're tortured for days on end by the Iranian government those same people support

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