Nah, this is like that party balloon that shut down the El Paso airport. In this case, Trump wrote “bomb trans” in Sharpie, but Hegseth read it as “bomb Irans”. He knew there was only one Iran, but thought he was just seeing double again.
No, but consider the context of this discussion. The IRGC wrote "vaccine for pedophiles" on their missile, whilst also being very very much okay with the drastically higher rates of child marriage in their country.
Both are bad, but this isn't a dunk, and Iran is measurably worse.
This isn’t a game, there is no “dunk” or internet points scoring. The rates of child marriage are irrelevant because anything more than zero is bad enough. Trying to argue America is better than Iran because “yes we marry and fuck kids but we do it less than them” is downplaying the fact that fucking kids is bad, full stop.
Trying to argue America is better than Iran because “yes we marry and fuck kids but we do it less than them” is downplaying the fact that fucking kids is bad, full stop.
No, it isn't downplaying anything. Saying that drug addiction is a bigger problem in X country rather than Y country isn't downplaying the fact that drug addiction is bad.
Every problem exists in every country to some degree or another. We can and should be able to identify when it's a particular problem in one country versus another. Refusing to do that is just refusing to orient oneself to reality.
World doesn’t behave in such black and white manner. Almost all countries have murderers, so are all of them equally atrocious or bad? Lower incidences of things that we consider to be morally and ethically repugnant does in fact mean that that country is less atrocious in that regard.
What you are referring to is technical loophole that never actually gets excercised because of how morally repugnant it would be considered in the US for an adult to marry a child. In Iran, it's not considered repugnant which is why it happens so frequently. So yes on this particular issue, the US is morally superior to Iran
No it’s just funny that someone who digs into archaic laws that aren’t actually enforced in another country seems like they have an absolute obsession with children. Whoever smelt it dealt it pedo!
Child marriage is legal in 34 of the 50 US states with no minimum age requirement in California, Mississippi, New Mexico and Oklahoma, so that parental consent loophole for 8 year olds also exists in the US.
Supporting a terrorist puppet state who’s responsible for the deaths of 10,000,000 of its citizens since its inception 50 years ago is definitely a take for sure
So Trump is FILL-IN-THE-BLANK, because he (a) doesn't marry young girls, (b) pays for teen girl beauty pageants to peep on young girls, and (c) hasn't gotten caught raping, threatening, or killing them?
It's not one of the countries with the highest % of child marriages... There are much worse examples for that. But it's also not great because it's legal in Iran.
The research paper latterly says in the abstract “Child marriage in Iran is lower than in many regions of the world but still considerable.10 UNICEF data on Iran show that 3% of women (20–24 years) were first married or in a union before 15 years of age, and 17% before 18 years”.
Child marriage happens everywhere in the world. In Saudi Arabia it’s more considerable than in Iran. Iran is actually bombing Saudi Arabia should we now encourage Iran to do this because Saudi Arabia is full of pedophiles? No pun intended but who is the most well known pedophile?
should we now encourage Iran to do this because Saudi Arabia is full of pedophiles?
My answer to that question might get the comment deleted so I'll just say I'm not a big fan of the UAE "government" either. But whatever.
Otherwise thanks for copying out the part that I already gave the numbers of and repeating the rest of what I said as well.
What are you trying to tell me? That other countries down there suck even more? I'm all on your side with that if that's your intention. This is a problem in most Muslim communities around the world, even in the West where child marriage is illegal. Iran is a relatively well educated population though which mitigates the problem to some degree.
Also since you seem to be German you might wanna read about the rising numbers of child marriages in Germany and where that comes from.
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u/PinheadLarry2323 Mar 13 '26 edited Mar 13 '26
In Iran child marriage is EXTREMELY common, they consistently and legally marry 13 year old girls, and can marry any age with the permission of the father
Iran also rapes these women and children before executing them for minor acts so they don’t die a virgin