Get ready to flee, Americans in ten countries warned

AnimalMuppet•about 3 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•about 2 hours ago

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

cjbenedikt•about 3 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•about 2 hours ago

The United States of Israel

rayiner•about 2 hours ago

“Without warning or provocation” lol.

wseqyrku•about 2 hours ago

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

slillibri•about 2 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•about 2 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.

danbruc•about 2 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?

freitasm•39 minutes ago

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

felooboolooomba•about 2 hours ago

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

krapp•about 2 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•about 1 hour 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.

mannanj•about 2 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•about 2 hours ago

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

Philpax•about 2 hours ago

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

BoxOfRain•about 2 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.

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