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"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." --Upton Sinclair

It would be very inconvenient for a lot of people's agendas to not be able to portray the folks who use this slogan as bloodthirsty savages hell bent on destroying us.

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It would also be very inconvenient for a lot of people’s agendas for it to be socially acceptable to take what they say at face value instead of trying to cover it up with some kind of absurd psychobabble

But you're not taking it at face value, you're evaluating the English translation, not what people are chanting (unless you do in fact speak Farsi).

Translation is not a 1:1 affair much of the time.

Yes obviously “death” can be used in more than one way, when it’s chanted in combination with violence I think it’s safe to assume it’s probably the more literal interpretation

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