A volunteer member of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard was killed in a western province during widening demonstrations sparked by the Islamic Republic’s ailing economy, authorities said Thursday, marking the first fatality among security forces during the protests.
Spontaneous protests, driven by dissatisfaction at Iran’s economic stagnation, began on Sunday in Tehran’s largest mobile phone market, where shopkeepers shuttered their businesses, and have since drawn in students across the country.
It says “One of the worst fascist regimes on the planet” in the comment
One of the worst, not the worst.
Good catch, thought technically the worst is also one of the worst :-)
But there can be multiple that we refer to as “one of the worst” so in a thread about Iran there’s no need to bring up the US which already gets plenty of attention
The original comment was kind of a joke on phrasing, but I see that here we are dead serious. So I humbly apologize to all deeply offended and I also take back comment that worst is technically one of the worst as according to downvotes it isn’t. 🤷♂️
For what it’s worth, I didn’t downvote you.
There’s just so much anti-US sentiment around these parts that it’s hard to even take it as a joke, the default assumption is that everyone’s got such a stick up their arse about the US that they HAVE to make everything about the US and some people actually seem to pretend that the US is the ONLY horrible dictatorship on the planet.
The same joke might’ve worked on another platform, but here the environment itself isn’t conducive to it working as a joke IMO.
A simple /s tag might’ve helped also because at this point we’re all so poe’s law’d up that it’s impossible to tell who’s being serious and who’s joking sometimes. Yes, I hate that it’s necessary sometimes. Yes, I’ve also made plenty of jokes that got taken seriously because online discourse and the world itself is so fucked up.