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by prh8 78 days ago
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Please don't perpetuate flamewars on HN. The GP comment was bad*, but responding in kind is the opposite of what we're trying for here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

(* for reasons—I hasten to add—unrelated to which side of the conflict they or anyone else is identifying with)

It's almost funny how both of these descriptions can apply to either country.
You probably have to wait 2 more years to see if they're really a dictatorship, for the time being at least they still have an electoral mandate.
Having an electoral mandate is a necessary condition, not a sufficient one. If you don't follow your own laws and your own constitution, for instance, you're not a in a democracy, even if you have been elected. Precisely because you are elected under the assumption that you will follow the laws and constitution, not have unlimited power to do whatever you like until the next elections.
The Trump regime is still borderline, but I think it's fair to call Netanyahu a dictator at this point.
Not to mention atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; 170,000+ deaths.
the japanese killed around 50 times that number of people in ww2 (R.J. Rummel, Statistics of Democide, 1997)
Who exactly are you talking about?
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blam...

> On the first morning of Operation Epic Fury, 28 February 2026, American forces struck the Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school in Minab, in southern Iran, hitting the building at least two times during the morning session. American forces killed between 175 and 180 people, most of them girls between the ages of seven and 12

This doesn’t make the us or Israel a dictatorship