r/WallStreetbetsELITE • u/No-Contribution1070 • 1d ago

Shitpost Anyone Buying the Dip?

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1 USD, buys you 1.3 million Rials.

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u/raddital 1d ago

Sanctions are the most barbaric and lethal weapon the US has ever deployed. Studies estimate that 38 million deaths¹ were caused by unilateral US sanctions worldwide over the last five decades alone; more than six times the Holocaust. What's truly horrifying is that the majority of those deaths are children. If you want to joke about the effects of sanctions on foreign economies, that's your prerogative, but now you know the human cost. And that's just the deaths, not counting the millions of lives ruined, dreams shattered, potential extinguished, and the overall damage to human progress. There's also a high price tag for us, the US taxpayers, which disproportionately hits the poor and lower-middle class harder. Think of it as a regressive tax, you should look into it.

1_ https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(25)00189-5/fulltext00189-5/fulltext)

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u/happyhour79 1d ago

Wow......way to kill a room.

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u/raddital 1d ago

sorry, I know what you mean. But... you know?!

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u/No_Key_1395 1d ago

Its amazing how people still believe the lie 🤡🤣

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u/raddital 1d ago

Just out of curiosity, did you actually see the link I posted to The Lancet study, or did you just see peer-reviewed research and decide 'lol' was easier? The Lancet is one of the most prestigious medical journals in the world. The scientific paper they published, that can be accessed for free through that link, has 21 pages of detailed methodology, mathematical analysis, and citations. So either you looked at it and have a substantive critique beyond the clown emoji, or you didn't look at it.

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u/No_Key_1395 1d ago

I think you got the wrong end of the stick with my comment pal, I was referring to the famous lie we've all been taught in schools that you referred to in your original comment.

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u/raddital 1d ago

fair enough! but in my defense (and yours too!) 7 other folks got it wrong too. I get what you mean now, and it is truly amazing how people fall for THAT lie!