Brickbat: Cover Your Head and Shut Your Mouth

Iranian officials arrested rapper Toomaj Salehi less than two weeks after his release from prison on bail, where he was serving a six-year sentence on multiple charges stemming from his support for anti-hijab protests. Salehi has been charged with "spreading lies and violation of public opinion." After his release from prison, Salehi released a video message saying he had been tortured after his first arrest, when state media showed a video of him blindfolded and apologizing for his support of the protests.
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He threw in the towel.
Over 19000 Palestinians killed by Jews including over 13000 women and children.
Your US tax dollars at work funding genocide, terrorism and crimes against humanity.
Just take away what the west stole for these terrible Jews. Take away their power and let them live in Palestine like they did before they stole it 76 years ago.
Then we’ll see how Jews fare trying to kill Palestinian women and children.
Cowards.
What this atrocity clearly demonstrates about you lying waste of skin Jews crying about Nazis and holocausts is that you don’t really care about either.
Your ONLY motivation is and has always been to further your own narcissistic self interests.
Jews are committing a holocaust in Gaza today to steal it for themselves.
Jews, Zelensky, are employing Nazis in Ukraine to terrorize the population and through war steal that nation’s wealth for Jewish/western interests.
Too bad the west ever supported these terrible jews.
Funding genocide, terrorism and crimes against humanity has destroyed any western claim to moral authority.
Go fuck a red hot poker, Goebbels.
What’s this got to do with Iran, Nazi Rob?
The Middle East conflict started when Jews stole Palestine and their acts of terrorism, genocide, apartheid and crimes against humanity are funded by the west.
You asked.
Go over there and fight them then.
Please go to Gaza and fight yourself. Maybe, if we get lucky, you'll be on the wrong end of an Israeli shell.
No, the Mid-East conflicts long pre-dated the establishment of Israel.
But since the rest of your comments are ahistorical raving, I'm not surprised that is, too.
You've said some pretty ignorant things before, but wow.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire
What’s more shocking to you?
Stating the undeniable fact that he’s are committing crimes against humanity.
Or
The recognition of the fact that that’s exactly what they are doing.
Jews
Tell you what, Misek, why don't you go over there and join Hamas yourself. Maybe they'll even make you head of a suicide squad.
Some motherfuckers are just broken.
There was no Palestine 76 years ago. For someone who goes on about 'truth' all the time you seem to be comfortable with lying.
And 'The Jews are deploying Nazis'. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight. Stealing the wealth of one of the poorest nations in eastern Europe. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.
Observe the lying waste of skin genocidal Jews deny the existence of both Palestinians and the AZOV battalions.
Not quite accurate. The area was named "Syria Palaestina" when the Romans drove the Jews from Judea and forbid them from re-entering Jerusalem on pain of death nearly 2000 years ago. That was followed by the colonialist Arabs invading the place and... yeah, driving many of the remaining Jews in the area out.
Long before Judaism was a bad idea there were canaanites.
Canaanites are the ancestors of both Jews and Arabs. It was 1200BCE when Jews split off claiming land as Israelites, causing the very first conflict between Jews and Arabs in the region.
That's an interesting comment. The phrase that comes to mind in reading it is "That's a good start!"
I couldn’t demonstrate your genocidal perspective better than that.
Misek is a miserable troll who contributes nothing here; I cannot understand why everyone doesn’t mute the hater.
The bigotry button is for losers like you.
You can’t refute what you deny anyways so do yourself a favour and blind yourself to counter arguments.
Hahaha
I'll bet he didn't take the jab either, the bastard.
Did you miss he was in prison?
Tomorrow's Iranian rap fan: "New video of blindfolded Toomaj Salehi just dropped!"
Iran is the Republican paradise. There's oil. Everybody bows, scrapes, genuflects, kneels, crawls, kowtows, shakes and quakes to invisible ghosts undetectable by the four forces of nature. Women are forced at gunpoint to bear flipper kids and pinheads and wear ku-klux face masks everywhere, everywhen. Any who don't like it are guinea pigs for medieval torture students unless beheaded or stoned to death. Distant critics of this godliness are swooped on by a lone Army of God fanatic and stabbed in the face multiple times.
Seem like plenty of Democrats would find comfort in a place where they can imprison and torture people for violations of opinion.
Say in DC?
Based solely on being in that location, per the phone company?
True, but the article is about a theocratic shithole, not a marxist shithole. Thus Republican Paradise.
It bears repeating:
Some motherfuckers are just broken.
"spreading lies and violation of public opinion."
Coming soon to a DoJ near you - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Jeffy/Misek 2024!
Someone needs to censor information!
/jeff
Not all information, just most truths.
So society can come to truths through collective reasoning…and censorship.
Remember. These are the people who are supporting Hamas, along with Misek and Progressive students.
Spreading lies! When it's just opinion or maybe truth! Good thing you can't get in trouble for that in the enlightened West.
Saw a funny meme the other day; if Queers for Palestine were to actually go to most Muslim countries their pronouns would be was and were.
Some stone, others hang from a scaffold, but most seem to prefer throwing them off a roof.
Stockholm syndrome. Or, "I can fix them. All you need is love. Wah wah wah wah wah........"
At least they’d have a Muslim man toss them off once.
Iranian officials arrested rapper Toomaj Salehi less than two weeks after his release from prison on bail, where he was serving a six-year sentence on multiple charges stemming from his support for anti-hijab protests.
That is the future Reason is advocating for the US. Or what do you think bringing millions of Muslims to the US is going to do?
Muslims won’t be baking that cake.