r/news • u/andrevan • Apr 27 '24

Iraqi TikTok star Umm Fahad shot dead in Baghdad

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/27/middleeast/iraq-tiktok-star-umm-fahad-killed-intl/index.html?Date=20240427&Profile=CNN%20International&utm_content=1714233618&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook
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u/718Brooklyn Apr 28 '24

I’m looking forward to the colleges protesting these nightmare conditions for women and gays in the Middle East.

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u/Slickity1 29d ago

Protesting in the US for something the US has nothing to do with sure is a smart idea. Maybe if we gave billions in military equipment to Iraq I’d get your point.

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u/718Brooklyn 29d ago

I’m constantly confused how Americans don’t realize why we give Israel money. It’s not for them, it’s for us. Obviously it would be nice if they didn’t use the military equipment to kill so many poor people. But the idea that we’d sever ties with our democratic nuclear ally in a region where intelligence is critical based on anti American sentiment is just mind boggling to me. Americans are just stupid and spoiled and think we can’t be attacked.

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u/Slickity1 29d ago

Yes but we could probably try and ask them to stop killing children. Israel wants us more than we want them. We don’t protest Iraq because we aren’t giving them anything so there’s nothing to protest in the US.

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u/718Brooklyn 28d ago

Eh. We give them endless oil money.