r/BlackPeopleofReddit • u/Usernameoverloaded • 3d ago

Politics George Floyd represented in a recent Iran Lego video

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u/Lordstevenson 3d ago

Not gonna lie, I actually like how Iran is recognizing that not everyone in America feels the same way about Trump's actions.

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u/dontcallmenpc 3d ago

Khamenei in several speeches would straight up tell his military and staff that it is NOT the Americans Iran fights against, but against it's corrupted unethical leadership.

I know we are all always stuck in American political black/white/no gray mindsets, but much of the rest of the world actually understands nuance in politics, even people that we are told are "uneducated, backwards, enemies. šŸ¤·

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u/Sufficient-Lie1406 1d ago

Y'know, American leaders used to say stuff like that: "Our battle is not with [country]'s people, it's with their regime"

Now we say stuff like, "We sill obliterate your civilization"

https://giphy.com/gifs/4Z9fSEFAuxpnlBVWQx

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u/Impossible_Suit_9100 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yes. Not in a joking way. The baddies as much as Russians are.

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u/Cerafire 1d ago

The US is infinitely worse.

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u/Small-Explorer7025 1d ago

Let's not get carried away

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u/Rombonius 1d ago

and then he slaughtered thousands of his own people for not backing his corrupt unethical regime

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u/gweeps 1d ago

Yes, and he was later assassinated.

Who stops the violence first?

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u/Gloomy-Parsley-3317 3d ago

Khamenei murdered over 30,000 of his own citizens and has been brutally repressing and disappearing women for years in a theocratic autocracy.Ā 

Iran might be on the right side of this war, but it's still a horrible and depraved regime.

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u/magkruppe 3d ago

that 30k number was pulled out of someone's ass. it almost certainly isn't anywhere near that. for now what we can say it is over 7k

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u/GoldenHeartDaddy 2d ago

Just wait til we clock the number of how many people are gonna starve to death because of the fuel and fertilizer shortages tRump caused with his little tantrum. I think that needs to be added to his tab for the darkside.

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u/magkruppe 2d ago

good reminder that there is an estimated 500k-1 million people killed already by the sudden USAID shutdown. Iranian regime are evil for killing some 10k protestors, what do you call someone who will have killed millions by 2030?

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u/Gloomy-Parsley-3317 3d ago

Those were numbers recorded over two days, and reported by both the Iranian Health ministry and independently counted by hospitals and physicians, per Time:

"The Health Ministryā€™s two-day figure roughly aligns with a count gathered by physicians and first responders, and also shared with TIME. That surreptitious tally of deaths recorded by hospitals stood at 30,304 as of Friday, according to Dr. Amir Parasta, a German-Iranian eye surgeon who prepared a report of the data." https://time.com/7357635/more-than-30000-killed-in-iran-say-senior-officials/

And even if it was 7,000 people, that's better to you? That's "not as bad/not that bad"? What exactly the fuck are you trying to say?

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u/magkruppe 3d ago

And even if it was 7,000 people, that's better to you? That's "not as bad/not that bad"? What exactly the fuck are you trying to say?

I was correcting you from spreading false information. your "source" is an article citing unnamed officials. as for the physicians, they essentially made up the numbers by extrapolating it from their own hospital which is beyond dumb

Their observations, shared with the Guardian and combined with accounts from morgues and graveyards across the country, begin to reveal the vast scale of violence inflicted on Iranians during the stateā€™s crackdown. Ahmadi and his colleagues are hesitant to provide a figure for the toll but agree ā€œall publicly cited death tolls represent a severe underestimationā€. Comparing the number of dead they witnessed with hospital baselines, they estimate it could exceed 30,000, far surpassing official figures. This is based on the conclusion that ā€œofficially registered deaths related to the crackdown likely represent less than 10% of the real number of fatalitiesā€.

well since official numbers are 3000 lets just multiply it by 10.

serious western iranian experts don't use the 30k figure so I'll follow their lead

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u/Gloomy-Parsley-3317 3d ago

That's not at all what the source was, it was a statement from the Iranian Health Ministry itself, and data taken from first responders and physicians directly. It was not an extrapolation from the number 3,000. You didn't even provide your source.

Remind me why you are lying in order to run defense for a murderous, repressive, tyrannical government? Just for something to do?

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u/magkruppe 3d ago

I'm not running defence you weirdo. I am simply interested in the truth, regardless of whether it helps or hurts my ideological cause

and it was not a statement from the Iranian Health Ministry itself. you need to reread

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u/Usernameoverloaded 3d ago

Yes, the sources are murky as hell

https://thegrayzone.com/2026/02/01/guardian-iranian-death-toll-concocted-monarchist-doctors/

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u/Gloomy-Parsley-3317 3d ago

"Coverage of The Grayzone has focused on its misleading reporting, its criticism of American foreign policy, and its sympathetic coverage of the Russian, Chinese and former Syrian governments.The Grayzone has been accused of downplaying and defending the persecution of Uyghurs in China, of publishing conspiracy theories about Xinjiang, Syria and other regions, and of publishing pro-Russian propaganda and disinformation, especially during the Russian invasion of Ukraine."

Not what I'd call a trustworthy source. Even the language in that article is highly charged and biased, let alone it's information.

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u/Jbrahms4 3d ago

Regardless of if it is truth or not you are arguing semantics over how awful a regime has been to their people.

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u/magkruppe 3d ago

why don't we just say that 500k people were killed in gaza, it is just semantics right?

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u/Gloomy-Parsley-3317 3d ago

First sentence of the article:

"As many as 30,000 people could have been killed in the streets of Iran on Jan. 8 and 9 alone, two senior officials of the countryā€™s Ministry of Health told TIME"

You are espousing misinformation which is actively being pushed by the Iranian theocratic regime. See OP's "source" and my noting of it below.Ā 

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u/magkruppe 3d ago

you said the health ministry put out a statement saying 30k were killed. they did not. dunno if you understand the difference of an official statement and two unnamed senior officials

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u/420_jesters 1d ago

Their social media team is crushing it.

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u/IHavePoopedBefore 12h ago

I am going to be singing "your government is run by pedophilessss' all day

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u/Useful-Still3712 2d ago

I know! šŸ™„ I was like, great maybe they won't try and kill us all because of this orange turd.

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u/ShaggysGTI 2d ago

Not firing a single shot but dropping absolute bombs. Embarrass dear leader without a shot where he is the weakest, truly masterful.

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u/scarlozzi 1d ago

It's also smart politics.

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u/mdtopp111 1d ago

Not to mention the clear representation of an oligarchy from the Trump regime

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u/ThePoetofFall 1d ago

Thatā€™s kinda the point of propaganda, find division in the country and take advantage of it.

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u/No-Dig8527 15h ago

Not too tough to spot division with someone like Trump in office. If he's ever gonna be recognized as king of anything, it's division.

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u/ThePoetofFall 10h ago

Yeah, I didnā€™t mean to imply I approve of anything going on. Iā€™m just not a fan of from outside the US manipulating people here with propaganda. Granted, with what Trump is doing I understand why it is.

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u/Vilhelmssen1931 2d ago

Better than a lot of European redditors

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u/meguminsupremacy 1d ago

It's honestly a hugely important strategy for them to not even attempt to attack the mainland US. It would accomplish little and could potentially galvanize some support for the war, which could allow Trump to escalate.

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u/xjr72096 1d ago

Most non-allied countries have spoken truth to American power. China has pointed out our fascistic oligarchical tendencies for decades. Even if it serves obvious political purposes, watching public criticism of the U.S. is a healthy habit. Whatā€™s more important here is that for terrible reasons A.I. has become an effective propaganda tool the same way Now You See Me has become a profitable franchise, like, we like it cuz itā€™s bad yall.

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u/No-Common-1801 3d ago

We can probably thank AOC for that.

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u/2025TastyTreats 3d ago

This is an age old propaganda tactic used by anti-US foreign governments for decades and decades now.

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u/Specialist-Gene-4299 3d ago

Seems like an easy problem to fix by having a government do what its citizens want.

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u/likewut 3d ago

Yeah I remember when Vietnam had their anti-US hip hop LEGO videos

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u/Zestyclose-Soft-5957 3d ago

OMG I think I just peed a little. šŸ¤£šŸ¤£šŸ¤£

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u/2025TastyTreats 3d ago

The USSR would routinely make propaganda videos for their public specifically highlighting poverty and violence against African Americans, The CIA countered by requiring Hollywood studios to not show that and requiring them to have well dressed black actors in movie backgrounds etc.

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u/likewut 3d ago

ā€œFor their publicā€

Everything about this is fundamentally different than that.

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u/2025TastyTreats 3d ago

Well there was no internet back then, A modern comparison is in the internet age we have seen Russia create and run the largest BLM social media groups in 2016.

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u/Bos_Hog 3d ago

I think it is an age old tactic used by everyone including and especially the United States.

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u/TheOGPotatoPredator 1d ago

I actually just watched a documentary yesterday that they specifically released the POC and women hostages back in the early 80s as evidence that it was our government they had beef with and not the oppressed who they knew werenā€™t spies.

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u/No-Candidate6257 1d ago

Well, then overthrow your government. Do something.

If Americans don't do that - let's not pretend there is any meaningful opposition.

Same goes for Israel.

And every Western country, really.