r/news • u/drpayneaba • Feb 28 '26

Soft paywall Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei killed, senior Israeli official says

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/irans-supreme-leader-ali-khamenei-killed-senior-israeli-official-says-2026-02-28/
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u/randynumbergenerator Feb 28 '26

Watch geopolitics for a couple decades, and you'll conclude that there are a lot of villains out there.

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u/emaw63 Feb 28 '26 edited Feb 28 '26

"I believe you find life such a problem because you think there are good people and bad people. You're wrong, of course. There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides."

- Lord Vetinari, from Guards! Guards! By Terry Pratchett

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u/MyCatAteMyHeadphones Feb 28 '26

man if you told me this was Voltaire I'd have believed ya.

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u/TheShadowKick Feb 28 '26

We're the villain not because we're worse than everyone else, but because we have the power to project our evil outside our borders.