Get ready to flee, Americans in ten countries warned

27 pointsposted 13 hours ago
by Bender
(dailymail.com)

32 Comments

AnimalMuppet

13 hours ago

UAE, Qatar, Oman, Iraq, Jordan, Israel, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Egypt, if you don't want to have to hit the link.

charlieyu1

11 hours ago

I mean clearly there are so many expats in these countries, especially the wealthy ones

cjbenedikt

13 hours ago

'The Iranian regime is unpredictable, as seen by its recent decisions to attack areas in the region without warning or provocations ...hmmm...remind me again: who started this without warning of provocation?

an0malous

12 hours ago

The United States of Israel

Rover222

12 hours ago

[flagged]

throw1234567891

11 hours ago

If the British didn’t make a mistake in 1948, there would be no need for any of this.

an0malous

11 hours ago

I do not support terrorism or genocide. Can you say the same?

wseqyrku

12 hours ago

Where you were for the last 47 years? Turn on the news.

slillibri

12 hours ago

Hmm, what could have happened 47 years ago. Is that when the current islamist regime overthrew the dictator that the US & UK put into place by orchestrating a coup against the democratically elected government because they wanted to nationalize the oil industry? Seriously this 47 years ago BS needs to stop.

wseqyrku

11 hours ago

I meant the entire time not 47 years ago sharp. You won't see what you're ignoring no matter how close it gets to you.

spwa4

10 hours ago

Strange how this argument keeps getting made but the obvious implication is never put into question. After all, the revolution "succeeded". So, tell me, now that students and socialists and ... put mullahs in power, and "kept" this great oil wealth, surely they're wealthy now? Has the oil wealth benefited them, or just the mullahs?

Oh wait ...

Because, people don't seem very happy about the result of the "success" of the revolution. Not at all. They also seem desperately poor, even if relatively successful. Only the massacring mullahs they brought to power look rich at all.

In fact now most people seem to wish that the evil oil companies would have won the revolution. Because, of course, they would have employed and helped the population.

Take for example the iconic photo:

https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!K5Yp!,w_1456,c_limit...

Apparently the girl on the left was executed by the mullahs for protesting and the girl on the right was forced out of the country. Doesn't sound like this "overthrowing the dictator" was much of a success at all ...

danbruc

11 hours ago

Ohh, you mean when the CIA supported a coup d'état in Iran? No, sorry, that was 73 years ago. When the USA supported Iraq in attacking Iran including the use of chemical weapons in an 8 year long war? No, that was only 46 years ago. You mean when the Iranian people protested against their government and replaced the monarchy with a Islamic republic?

rayiner

12 hours ago

“Without warning or provocation” lol.

downrightmike

13 hours ago

[flagged]

TaboZ

12 hours ago

are you real?

WolfeReader

12 hours ago

"Thanks Obama" is sometimes used sarcastically by people who actually don't mind Obama, as a parody of how conservatives would blame literally anything on him.

Too bad the above post didn't give enough context to say which sense they're using it.

lokar

11 hours ago

If not for that tan suit gas would be $1/gal and America would own Iran.

bix6

12 hours ago

Hey come on it was all Joe!!!

xdennis

11 hours ago

[flagged]

g8oz

11 hours ago

Glad at least that you can understand America's aggression as being at Israel's behest. And that concerns over a nuclear weapon program were just a pretext.

felooboolooomba

12 hours ago

Is politics allowed now when people feel shit's hitting home.

krapp

12 hours ago

No. If anything the more real it gets, the harder people put the hammer down on it.

Makes them feel bad, see, and people don't come to HN to feel bad.

ajb

11 hours ago

That's a likely motivation, but it's worth pointing out that it's against one of the HN community's other values: thinking things through properly, not just picking an option.

The hacker mindset values understanding how the moving parts fit together, and thinking about whether better strategies than the "received wisdom" exist. Politics is often a demand to pick a side, which is against that, but "we just don't do politically contraversial subjects here" is even more against that.

freitasm

10 hours ago

So much winning. So much peace. This president should get another FIFA Piss Prize.

mannanj

12 hours ago

Wondering when did political discourse become so prevalent in hacker news? I have now become accustomed to it being normal, but I remember the hacker news of 10 years was not like this.

Why has this become so normal? I miss the days where this was focused on technology and, well, hacking.

Can we stop engaging this political commentary please.

phoghed

12 hours ago

Maybe something external changed and not HN? Can’t quite put my finger on what has changed in the last decade…

Philpax

12 hours ago

You may not want to engage with politics, but politics will engage with you.

BoxOfRain

11 hours ago

The hacker community has always had a strong political element to it, what else is the GNU GPL but a statement of political intent? Anything which deals with the allocation of power and resources is political.

ThrowawayR2

2 hours ago

The old hacker community leaned anti-authoritarian and libertarian, if anything. The modern, everything-is-political "hackers" would be horrified by them.