A bombshell new report from CBS News suggests that the Iranian Government has murdered between 12,000 and 20,000 protesters since the ongoing, national revolt against it began.
“Information trickling out of Iran on Tuesday suggests that a crackdown by authorities to end more than two weeks of widespread anti-government protests has likely been far more deadly than activists outside the country have reported,”
Jesus, I wish there was some kind of standard for freedom of speech and freedom of the press that could be applied globally…
But that would be inherently “evil” because global governments are supposed to be bad? Unless it’s corporate globalism. Then it’s ok, and we don’t need standards or regulations because the values are just baked in since it’s a private company…?
Still it does seems a bit hypocritical to point out how evil Iran is while Trump is threatening to invoke the insurrection act in Minnesota against protestors who are upset about Trump invading their home, tear gassing a high school, shooting one man, and murdering one woman (so far), and even though it hasn’t gotten much press, for some reason the FBI just raided a journalists home yesterday and nobody really seems to know why.
Not trying to downplay Iran murdering so many citizens or give Trump brownie points just because he’s pointing at the guy he’s got a lot of catching up to do with when comparing violent crack downs on critics and the press.
Let’s just focus on the guy in Iran bc Trump’s mad at him, not the guy in Saudi Arabia bc we’re frenz now… And maybe not the guy in Russia? Because I can’t even keep up with what we’re all supposed to believe re: Trump, Putin, and oil right now.
Tldr: Authoritarian dictators all suck no matter who they are, where they are, or how many innocent people they’ve murdered (so far)