Get ready for the tide of downvotes!

Your comment also does several things at once.

1. Still fails to tell why sinking a warship gets more comment than literally massacring protesters or literally bombing a school.

2. I was operating under the basic assumption we’re adults who agree war is evil, and people die in wars. War is never fucking “A-OK” as you describe it. 2a. War exists, war is inherently evil, because humans are humans. If you volunteer for war, and then don’t want to participate, surrender yourself to a neutral country.

3. WOAOWOOWWOWOW a nation didn’t actually do the political process of " I declare war"??? Grow up.

Throughout the full history of submarine warfare, warning “unarmed” ships they should surrender has resulted in submarines getting blown the fuck out of the water by “unarmed” ships.

How is this “brutal and shocking”? They could have sailed to a neutral port and surrendered to the neutral nation, as another Iranian ship just did.

Submarines haven’t asked for surrenders in over a century. They stopped because ships that “should be unarmed” kept blowing them out if the water once they gave up stealth. Would you gamble your ship and crew on an Iranian warship following wargames rules to the T?

Did that first, found the article filled with emotion and lacking explanation. Thanks for the coolguy snappy comment instead of explaining that view tho. It’s a warship, not a hospital boat. It’s designed to shoot missiles, shells, and torpedos.

Submarines haven’t surfaced to ask for surrenders since WW1. They stopped during, because asking for surrenders resulted in getting blown out of the water by ships that “should be” unarmed. If you were captain, would you gamble everyone on board your ship by giving up a submarine’s greatest weapon, stealth, on the assumption a warship belonging to a rules-flouting authoritarian regime is following the rules?

I also don’t understand that would be a sticking point. It was in international waters when it was sank, so I assume it was returning home to get armed with shells, torpedoes, and missiles. Why wait for a warship to become an active threat before striking it?

It presumably had the option to either surrender itself to a neutral port, as another Iranian warship has done, or fly the white flag.

Fair on the potential for bad intel.

Absolutely monstrous to double tap a school. That doesn’t happen by accident, as so many things do in war. Disgusting.

I expect this to be unpopular with the hive:

When you join a military, you take the risk that someone might shoot at you at some point.

It’s a warship, not a civilian ship, what’s the problem? I can’t think of a “better” target in a war than a warship.

Is that little knob on the bow for spraying lemonade at the thirsty? Are those boxes in the back for delivering free meals to underprivileged students?

Someone help me see your viewpoint as to why sinking this ship is an especially evil action getting as much attention as a literal girl’s school.

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There’s a million valid reasons Trumpism is evil, but excusing the utter cruelty the Iranian government wields isn’t one of them.

Explain how “great satan” forced the Iranian government to murder, maim, jail, and rape protestors last month.

They slam metal heads into the ground, as seen above

As nice as those anticommercial ideals are, I generally just see shills that enjoy downplaying Russia’s invasion and justifying Iran’s mass-murdering of protesters out of .ml. Some really, really bizarre cyberstalking weirdos too.

Might be survivorship bias because only the assholes get noticed, but .ml has a pretty shitty reputation because of them.

So long as communities based on a common theme exist online, there WILL be a hivemind. Much like how we are not immune to propaganda, online communities are not immune to bandwagoning.

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The Iranian government shot protesters in the face and imprisoned people en mass. The proverbial American pot may be starting to boil, but the Iranian one is a full on lava flow of rape, murder, and mutilation.

All the boys are away doing human wave tactics in Ukraine and cucumber prices are soaring, poor Russian ladies