It’s mind boggling to me that lemmygrad is the only place I’ve yet seen anyone show some sort of respect for a world leader dying in a violent accident. Everywhere in the media and online all I’m seeing is people glad he’s dead. As if he’s ever done anything to any of us to deserve that.
There’s a pretty long list of other world leaders who if they went out violently like this, I’d be all ripbozo smoking on the prez pack. Unfortunately, Raeisi is not one of them.
Wasn’t he pretty involved in the suppression of women? All I’ve read is that he generally wasn’t well liked by any group of the citizenry of Iran
I can understand people feeling concern for Iran’s people and trajectory during a tumultuous time like this, but I don’t think anyone should feel bad he’s gone. He wasn’t a good person
That an interesting way of looking at it. If you can find any purity argument for why a politician wasn’t progressive (he wasn’t btw) then it’s a good thing for them to just go up in a fireball. Politics by process of elimination! Say, Yemenis invited Jackson Hinkle to a Zoom conference. Maybe they should go die, too, because they’re more backward than you and the removeds got to them first! Hell, my favorite Burkina Faso reporting account randomly veers into Christian grimposting about gay people (me).
Just ignore all context for why people are nervous about this in the first place (Iran is playing a critical role in breaking the illusion of US hegemony and this could even be a pointless assassination)! Woo hoo! Billionaire down!
It’s not like this is going to make the political situation better in Iran if you view it that way. Now he will be memorialized for dying in the midst of a great struggle.
You may be misreading my post, I’m not celebrating his death, only questioning why leftists are seemingly mourning his death outside of the impacts it could have to Iran
My point was seeing it as something like the death of Putin on a smaller scale: aware it will cause internal and external political ripples which could be bad for the people but not someone we should be mourning
All I’ve read is that he generally wasn’t well liked by any group of the citizenry of Iran
I don’t know where you’ve read that but i think you’re about to find out that that was a lie when you see the size of the crowds that will come out to mourn him.
Edit: And as i predicted: “Millions of Iranians rallied across the country to pay their final respects to the late President Raisi.”
It was pretty recently after the crash so I’m willing to believe it could be sensationalism
The crowd? You mean the conservative basijis? Literally everyone I have been interacting with has been happy
Or some people are mourning the other dudes that died, because it wasn’t just Raisi, the councilman of east Azerbaijan province also died amongst others
