cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/46797842
May 2, 2026
The creative team behind many of the viral sensations featuring Lego characters and storytelling critical of the war launched by US-Israeli forces against Iran two months ago, posted a new video on Saturday that seeks to forge solidarity between everyday Iranians and Americans suffering from the conflict, and who desperately want to see the fighting brought to an end.
“The Iranian AI Lego team has another video out,” said Trita Parsi, executive vice president at the Institute for Responsible Statecraft, a DC think tank focused on US foreign policy. “The music, lyrics, and imagery are all designed to appeal to disillusioned Americans.”
Then you clearly don’t know what fascism is, and are just using it a catch-all term to apply to any government you don’t like. They’re religious social conservatives, yes, but they aren’t fascist.
Fascism is a superficially populist movement that is used to violently impose the will of capital and suppress the working class, characterized by a merging of state and corporate power. I don’t think that this describes Iran accurately, though there are some similarities. In any case, their enemies are a genoicidal rogue state and the seat of the global fascist empire, so they’re objectively and by far the least bad out of all the major players in the region.
The “everyone’s bad!” position is simply moral and intellectual cowardice. We do not live in a perfect world, and you’re never going to find a perfect actor. Iran is engaged in a defensive war against the fascist global empire and its regional cronies, and is winning. That’s enough for me, at least for now. We can reexamine the situation after the war.
What?
To clarify, does that mean you disagree that the Iran government is fascist?
read my post and formulate a counterargument or fuck off
Your post is confusing, I’m sorry.
In order to get of the root of the issue, can you please answer if you believe Iran is fascist?
If you don’t, then there’s no point in anything else.
No problem, not everyone is born with the reading comprehension gene.
I already said I don’t think they are. You do realize that the burden of proof lies on the person making a claim, right?
I’ve humored you long enough. If you don’t support Iran’s war against imperial aggression, it is you who is the fascist.