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Iran school bombing: grounds to believe US was behind atrocity, UN finds

354 points · 307 comments · hebelehubele

jackmott42 · 1789646623 · focus · HN ↗
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1. zzgo · 1789647115 · focus · HN ↗
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  1. toasty228 · 1789647263 · focus · HN ↗
    That's his half brother Obamna, Trump made the same mistake
  2. FlockIsYC · 1789666768 · focus · HN ↗
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2. tokai · 1789649777 · focus · HN ↗
  the classic gotcha that doesn't work on outsiders that don't care about the partisan devide. All US presidents going back for quite a while are war criminals.
3. _menelaus · 1789654420 · focus · HN ↗
  Christians aren't bad people. Its just that the older ones (and a few young ones) get their information from terrible sources. They watch Fox News, where every day Trump is presented as the hero fighting against the evil democrats. They don't notice the propaganda like a fish doesn't notice water. Bad inputs bad outputs.
  1. krapp · 1789655161 · focus · HN ↗
    Christians aren't bad people, but it's undeniable that the one demographic that supports Trump more than any other are Christians. Trump is the face, heart and soul of American Christianity. Where else are Christians arguing that genocide on behalf of Israel is a moral imperative, or that empathy is a sin?
    If so many Christians were so easily swayed by hateful propaganda then that's still a fault and failure of the religion, as is the utter failure of the "good" Christians to do anything about it. People aren't machines that blindly process inputs into outputs, at least not in any useful sense that takes morality and ethics into account. People have agency, they're responsible for their own decisions. And these people have a Bible probably at arms reach at all times and they know what it says.
    ramesh31 · 1789658211 · focus · HN ↗
    >"Christians aren't bad people, but it's undeniable that the one demographic that supports Trump more than any other are Christians."
    Christianity itself really has little to do with it. I think it's more so that "Christian" is just the default cultural identity and worldview of native born Americans who have zero self awareness, thoughtfulness, or perspective on the world. Almost none of them actually believe anything really when you start to ask questions about it. It's just the in-group that they latch on to because they've never had an independent thought in their lives.
    SV_BubbleTime · 1789658867 · focus · HN ↗
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4. dang · 1789663361 · focus · HN ↗
  Can you please not post in the flamewar style to HN, no matter how right you are or feel you are? we're trying for something different here. We've had to ask you this before (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35718735">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35718735), and you've been breaking the site guidelines repeatedly lately (e.g. <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49355271">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49355271 and <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49154963">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49154963, in addition to here).
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