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ColoringFool

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13. Understood. But That Simply Is Not How People Think Or Speak.....

Reply to Seeking Serenity (Original post)

Sun Mar 1, 2026, 02:36 AM

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IN COMMON PARLANCE:

We almost never said, e.g., "We're at war with the Third Reich"; we said we were at war with Germany.

We declared "V-J Day"; not "V-Hirohito's Imperialist Government Day."

We say that "America" was attacked on 9/11/01; not "a few buildings were or were intended to be attacked."

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I really wish people would stop using "Iran" to mean the Islamic regime that currently rules over it. [View all] Seeking Serenity Saturday OP

We are literally bombing Iran right now Blues Heron Saturday #1

But "Iran" is not bombing Tel Aviv; the IRGC is. Seeking Serenity Saturday #2

The IRGC is just a branch of the Iranian military. Iran is shooting missiles into neighbors. Melon Saturday #7

So, we should also not say that the US is bombing Iran, then? wnylib Saturday #8

But according to videos, not so happy! womanofthehills Sunday #11

Numerous commentators have stated that the regime is massively unpopular with the Iranian Gaugamela Saturday #3

I had a a history prof in college who was Jewish and from Iran tirebiter Saturday #4

I had a 2d cousin who married an Iranian woman who had fled Iran just before "the 1979 coup." Seeking Serenity Saturday #5

Government, shmoverment. You know what this is about. usonian Saturday #6

I understand what you're getting at fujiyamasan Sunday #9

During 911 - all Americans were on the same page womanofthehills Sunday #12

just a little bit unwieldy to say, "the U.S. has just bombed the land mass, and denizens, currently ruled by stopdiggin Sunday #10

Understood. But That Simply Is Not How People Think Or Speak..... ColoringFool Sunday #13

No one in the world is thinking, "A demented guy from Queens Scrivener7 Sunday #14