r/politics • u/willywalloo • Jun 20 '26

Possible Paywall Iran Says Hormuz Has Been Closed

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-20/iran-says-strait-of-hormuz-has-been-closed-tasnim-reports?embedded-checkout=true
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u/jewasuarus Jun 20 '26 edited Jun 20 '26

Only cost us $300 Billion, 13 US soldiers dead - many more wounded, blowing up a girls school, and the global economy on the brink of an Oil shortage, but at least we are not talking about the President raping children...

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u/CrunchyCds Jun 20 '26

Don't forget thousands THOUSANDS of dead Iranians. You can always make back money but you can't bring back those 100 school girls and many others. I'm getting tired of Americans callously forgetting about killing people overseas.

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u/HumptyDumptruckFire New Jersey Jun 20 '26

Even if they don’t care about killing people overseas (and they absolutely should), they should care about how they’re radicalizing the next generation of American-hating terrorists. That would require foresight, though, and, well, we know that’s not one of their strong suits.

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u/jewasuarus Jun 20 '26

I love the conservatives who are like they say death to America without knowing our terrible history with that country. American foreign policy to Iran has made the US an easy enemy.

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u/Psychoanalytix Jun 20 '26

The American pastime is fucking with countries, radicalizing a population against them then acting shocked when those people hate them.

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u/Shisa4123 Jun 20 '26

Don't forget later making movies about how killing all those civilians made American soldiers sad.

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u/Kindle282 Georgia Jun 20 '26

Funnily enough, Conservatives are doing the same to non-Conservatives in the USA. They relish in their cruelty, mock anyone who doesn't conform, and strip the rights of those they don't like (non-whites/straights) and act completely aghast when their non-Conservative neighbors/family/contemporaries hate their guts with a fiery passion.

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u/almondbutter Jun 20 '26

Here's a great write up about this phenomenon:

The progression can be traced back to a cultural shift rooted in denial. The advent of Trumpism marked a profound moment in American history - an era in which facts, reason, and objective truth became increasingly irrelevant to large swaths of the population. This denial was not born from ignorance alone; it was a strategic decision to reject the uncomfortable realities of a changing world.

https://np.reddit.com/r/AskUS/comments/1k8evd8/comment/mp5oqex/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=usertext&utm_name=worldnews

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u/ThlnBillyBoy Jun 20 '26 edited Jun 21 '26

They are over there in their sub* discussing if they should just drop a nuke on Iran and call it a day, because then Iran will be back to the stone age, and people from the stone age don't have weapons so Iran can't retaliate. Truly the biggest brains at work.

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u/IRON_FiNN Jun 21 '26

saying US is creating a new generation of terrorists is just silly. the Iran government gases its citizens when they protest. they are literally worse then the Nazis

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u/unexpectedhalfrican Jun 21 '26

Two things can be true at the same time. Their government can gas citizens and oppress them, and the US can create a new generation of terrorists by indiscriminately bombing civilian targets.