hi I haven't been to tumblr for ages and now, after the internet blackout in my country, Iran, and the start of pride month, I'm here to talk abt sth important, it's mostly copy pasted but "intentions are everything" after all.
Mahshid, a 26-yo transgender woman in Sanandaj, Kurdistan province, was killed because of who she was, because of being trans. The perpetrator of her murder is a salafi islamic group.
This attack was done to spread fear among the LGBTQ+ community.
Transgender women and girls in Iran face constant threats, not just from society but from laws and systemic violence. This news breaks at the start of Pride Month — a reminder that protection for trans people in Iran is more urgent than ever. No one should live in fear just for being themselves.
Please be the voice of Iranian LGBTQ+ community, specially the trans community, on this year's Pride Month. They need your support more than anytime.
Sister of Ahmad Khsravani, a 21-year-old basketball player and student at Sharif University of Technology who was shot dead by security forces during protests, shared this:
"After pleading and giving money to the hungry ones of the Islamic Republic, they agreed to let us lay Ahmad on top of my dad's grave. But they weren't satisfied with tormenting us. They realized they could still extract more money from us." She wrote: "They said because Ahmad's height is over 198 [cm] and the grave size in my dad's plot is 193 [cm], we must break his legs so he can fit inside the grave."
"In the reception hall of Behesht-e Zahra cemetery for the burial arrangements, we wanted the upper tier of my father's grave to be for my brother Ahmad. They said: 'You cannot bury a rioter next to the grave of a war veteran (Janbaz). They are pure, but these people are rioters.' They were saying this about Ahmad, and we were just humiliated in the midst of our pain, while they were only looking for money."
okay I loathe using AI overviews, but am including this because I refuse to look this up in the actual twitter app rather than a private browser, it’ll stress me out too much, apologies.
r/conspiracy is one of the most evil, Nazi infested places on the internet btw
okay I loathe using AI overviews, but am including this because I refuse to look this up in the actual twitter app rather than a private browser, it’ll stress me out too much, apologies.
r/conspiracy is one of the most evil, Nazi infested places on the internet btw
I got asked about the Black Hebrew Israelites today--who are they, what do they want, etc. So I ended up sharing a bunch of sources on the movement; so far, so good.
However, since my brain keeps everything sorted by tag reference, that brought the video from Jessie Gender from two-ish years ago to mind. That's due to her memory-holing the segment where she tries to use the BHI as proof that "Israel is engaged in eugenic racial classification". What made that really funny was that the image she had on screen as proof of "Israel is engaging in racism by saying that these men are not Jewish because they're BLACK!" is that the picture was of a group of Black men who were wearing uniform shirts reading "United In Christ".
It was like... HMMMM. I WONDER WHY THE JEWISH COUNTRY WOULD SAY THAT? Might there be a different factor at play other than their skin color? Maybe? Just MAYBE?
But what turned that segment from "Critical Research Failure" (because even Wikipedia's page on BHI notes how Jew-hating they are) to "Academic Malfeasance" was how she memory-holed it. She snipped the segment out and re-uploaded the video without acknowledgment of her mistake (the removed section was saved and can be found here).
And it's like...
Sure. Just having that in there completely destroyed your credibility as an impartial academic, because the tiniest bit of research of who the BHI were would have informed her as to why they would be denied immigration to Israel under the Law of Return--starting with some attempts by American BHI members back in the 1970s to literally colonize Israel.
But the fact that she didn't acknowledge her mistake and own up to it that took her past "Mistaken" to "Malicious", because it made it clear that she wasn't doing research, but cherry-picking for a narrative. And as part of that narrative, well, to her, they declared themselves to be the "True Jews", and taking that at completely face value would allow her to continue to demonize Israel and Zionism as "racist" and "eugenicist". And when it was revealed that they were a hate group... well, best just sweep that under the rug.
Integrity? Academic honesty? What are those? Oh, they can be put aside when the topic is related to Jews? Oh, I see.
I mean, to give Jessie Gender a hundred thousand times more credit than she is due, I don’t think she ever claimed to be an academic, or to adhere to any sort of academic standard in her essays. Like, she’s trans, and she likes Star Trek, and she makes longform video content about those things, but I don’t think she ever claimed to have a rigorous process to adhere to any sort of facts any more than anyone else who is talking about personal experiences or producing fan works.
Having said that, I remember watching that video, and it’s so obvious that she did the research, but had already made up her mind about the conclusions, and wrote her script in service of that. It was almost laughable how many times she basically said, “[fact that supports Israel], [fact that supports Israel], [fact that supports Israel], so in conclusion, Israel is evil and shouldn’t exist.”
Like, if I remember, she had a whole section on the history of antisemitism and then concludes that antisemitism isn’t a real problem and that Jews feel threatened based on nothing. Or the section on the violence of the intifadas (which she memorably could not pronounce) and then she concludes that there’s no real threat and Israel’s security measures are just an excuse to hurt Palestinians.
So while no, there’s no academic integrity to be lost because she’s just some uncredentialed YouTuber, there’s absolutely a malicious drive throughout the whole essay to paint Jews as the bad guys, even as she recites facts that support Zionism and then ignores them.
I mean, if she is a fandom and trans issues youtuber, then maybe she shouldn't make a whole essay about a political issue she has no knowledge on and no personal connection to and make sweeping claims about the subject.
the "video essay" format implies to her watchers that she knows what she is talking about.
But, but, but, how will people know that she's a Real Leftist ™ if she doesn't engage in antisemitic dictation of Jewish identity and politics!? /s
Also, I would agree with @perfectlyvalid49's points, except that she's trying to claim academic rigor, which means that those rules apply. (Also, 0 x 100,000 still equals zero ;) )
@newside, a lot of the trans issues videos were political (because sadly being trans is political) and unfortunately it seems that the trans community has decided that trans rights and Palestinian liberation are the same cause. Plus the longer video was in response to being (correctly) called and antisemite after she released a shorter video about a Jewish Star Trek writer signing a thing in defense of Israel existing and how disappointed she was about how bad his politics were.
So if you asked her, I’m sure she’d say she was absolutely staying in her lane in talking about fandom things (Oh yuck, this writer I used to like is a icky Zionist) and trans issues (trans people are oppressed and Palestinians are oppressed and therefore our struggles are the same), and then responding to the call out, which to be fair is basically a sub-genre in fandom spaces. It doesn’t mean she’s right, but I can see how she got there if that makes sense.
But I want to push back on the idea that the “video essay” format, or that a person with no credentials claiming academic rigor in a non-academic, non-peer-reviewed setting (especially on the internet!) implies that the person has any idea of what they’re talking about, because that’s a really dangerous idea, especially in this age of misinformation disinformation.
Because there’s A TON of YouTube channels who post video essays about all sorts of stuff, but that doesn’t mean that they’re experts, or that they’re correct. Jenny Nicholson made a four hour video essay about the Galactic Starcruiser hotel, and in it she says it's a detailed archive of what the hotel was actually like, and as someone who went, what she describes does not match up with my lived experience. We each went once - which one of us is correct? That's not to say that she's not describing her experience, but it's an opinion piece, not an expert telling you what's true. And even with non-opinion pieces with citations, it’s possible there’s missing context, or personal bias (like in the Jessie Gender video) that’s causing their conclusions to be out of line with what the research they did tells them.
This is even true for channels that strive to be explicitly educational. Philosophy Tube was created because Abigail Thorn wanted to use her degree in philosophy to make it accessible to people who don’t have access to a formal philosophy education. Her videos are made with the explicit intent of being educational, and she has said that people have let her know that they are used in educational settings. They are well written, well produced, and well cited. She also released a video on colonialism last year where she defined (in part) colonialism as being “the practice of eliminating native people and building something else on the land that was taken from them,” and then despite the existence of Al Aqsa Mosque (among many others) she insisted that it was foreign Jews who were colonizing native Palestinians. It’s in the video essay format, with an explicit claim toward academic rigor, and it still is someone who doesn’t know what they’re talking about.
And while I’m ranting about this, it’s not just YouTube videos. I’ve seen people on tumblr – on jumblr even! - write out extremely articulate, well cited essays that omit or ignore facts so that they can draw the conclusion that they want to draw just as egregiously as Abigail Thorn or Jessie Gender do.
The tl;dr of it all is that just because the format looks trustworthy, and the author seems to have done some research, it doesn’t mean that that’s actually true. It’s all Wikipedia – the information might be true, but you gotta check the citations to find out if what you’re being told is accurate and to see if the information is complete.
@the-library-alcove, I hadn’t watched the video since it came out, and I didn’t recall her claiming academic rigor. I thought it was more of a, “people called me antisemitic and I don’t want to be, so I tried to educate myself and this is what I found,” sort of thing. (And that is the one (1) credit I’ll give her – I think her desire to not be antisemitic was genuine, she was just surrounded by people telling her that she wasn’t, and she believed them. Does it suck that I think desiring to not be antisemitic and then failing wildly is still worth one credit? Yeah. But at least she’s not outright saying Hitler was right and the bar is that low.) But if she was making a claim that this is a non-biased overview, as opposed to a four hour “here’s the information that exonerates me” video, then yeah, that’s a much bigger problem.
So we actually agree about this, because what I said is that the video essay format implies a certain level of expertise to *viewers*.
Just because you and I know that it is not actually trustworthy and academically valid, doesn't mean the average viewer knows or treats it as such. The format itself, how it is structured, gives it an impression of professional and informed commentary. And to most people that's enough.
I would argue Jenny Nicholson videos to be more of a documentary than a video essay, and it is based on something she actually experienced and therefore has a tangible connection with.
Unfortunately I also think you are correct about the reasons Jesse thought it was her place to make this kind of video, but it doesn't exonerate her from being an outside commentator making claims about an issue she has no business making claims about.
The same is true for other breadtube personalities as well - they have (almost) all made reactionary comments and videos almost exclusively to signal that they are 'good leftists', without consideration of the influence they carry among their viewers - or worse, with full knowledge of it and an intent to influence opinions.
I got asked about the Black Hebrew Israelites today--who are they, what do they want, etc. So I ended up sharing a bunch of sources on the movement; so far, so good.
However, since my brain keeps everything sorted by tag reference, that brought the video from Jessie Gender from two-ish years ago to mind. That's due to her memory-holing the segment where she tries to use the BHI as proof that "Israel is engaged in eugenic racial classification". What made that really funny was that the image she had on screen as proof of "Israel is engaging in racism by saying that these men are not Jewish because they're BLACK!" is that the picture was of a group of Black men who were wearing uniform shirts reading "United In Christ".
It was like... HMMMM. I WONDER WHY THE JEWISH COUNTRY WOULD SAY THAT? Might there be a different factor at play other than their skin color? Maybe? Just MAYBE?
But what turned that segment from "Critical Research Failure" (because even Wikipedia's page on BHI notes how Jew-hating they are) to "Academic Malfeasance" was how she memory-holed it. She snipped the segment out and re-uploaded the video without acknowledgment of her mistake (the removed section was saved and can be found here).
And it's like...
Sure. Just having that in there completely destroyed your credibility as an impartial academic, because the tiniest bit of research of who the BHI were would have informed her as to why they would be denied immigration to Israel under the Law of Return--starting with some attempts by American BHI members back in the 1970s to literally colonize Israel.
But the fact that she didn't acknowledge her mistake and own up to it that took her past "Mistaken" to "Malicious", because it made it clear that she wasn't doing research, but cherry-picking for a narrative. And as part of that narrative, well, to her, they declared themselves to be the "True Jews", and taking that at completely face value would allow her to continue to demonize Israel and Zionism as "racist" and "eugenicist". And when it was revealed that they were a hate group... well, best just sweep that under the rug.
Integrity? Academic honesty? What are those? Oh, they can be put aside when the topic is related to Jews? Oh, I see.
I mean, to give Jessie Gender a hundred thousand times more credit than she is due, I don’t think she ever claimed to be an academic, or to adhere to any sort of academic standard in her essays. Like, she’s trans, and she likes Star Trek, and she makes longform video content about those things, but I don’t think she ever claimed to have a rigorous process to adhere to any sort of facts any more than anyone else who is talking about personal experiences or producing fan works.
Having said that, I remember watching that video, and it’s so obvious that she did the research, but had already made up her mind about the conclusions, and wrote her script in service of that. It was almost laughable how many times she basically said, “[fact that supports Israel], [fact that supports Israel], [fact that supports Israel], so in conclusion, Israel is evil and shouldn’t exist.”
Like, if I remember, she had a whole section on the history of antisemitism and then concludes that antisemitism isn’t a real problem and that Jews feel threatened based on nothing. Or the section on the violence of the intifadas (which she memorably could not pronounce) and then she concludes that there’s no real threat and Israel’s security measures are just an excuse to hurt Palestinians.
So while no, there’s no academic integrity to be lost because she’s just some uncredentialed YouTuber, there’s absolutely a malicious drive throughout the whole essay to paint Jews as the bad guys, even as she recites facts that support Zionism and then ignores them.
I mean, if she is a fandom and trans issues youtuber, then maybe she shouldn't make a whole essay about a political issue she has no knowledge on and no personal connection to and make sweeping claims about the subject.
the "video essay" format implies to her watchers that she knows what she is talking about.
What makes the nation suffer helps the regime thrive.
One of the U.S. government’s recurring mistakes about Iran has been to conflate the country’s national interests with regime interests. The two are in many ways opposites. What benefits the Iranian people—global economic reintegration, diplomatic recognition, investment, normalcy—threatens a regime that operates an extensive mafia and thrives in isolation. The carrots that America offers the nation are sticks to the men who rule it. And the sticks that America wields against the regime—isolation, conflict, and chaos—are carrots to men whose power depends on all three.
This is the Islamic Republic’s survival paradox: What makes the regime thrive makes the nation suffer, and what would allow the nation to thrive threatens the regime’s survival. As a result, the most consequential deliberations of the Iran war have been not between Washington and Tehran but between the American president and himself. Donald Trump has vacillated between Neville Chamberlain and Attila the Hun, threatening to walk away one day and to bomb Iran “back to the Stone Age” the next. Tehran, in contrast, has had the benefit of clarity: Its ideology is resistance, its strategy is chaos, and its endgame is survival.
Trump is a president with no fixed foreign-policy principles, facing a regime led by men so loyal to the ideals of the 1979 revolution, most notably resistance against America and Israel, that they call themselves “principlists.” This revolutionary worldview serves as both a glue maintaining the regime’s cohesion and a shackle holding the nation down. The country will never advance while still committed to that ideology. But without it, the regime may not survive.
This is why Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff’s repeated suggestion that Iran could rejoin “the league of nations” fundamentally misread the regime he was dealing with. It is why Trump’s threat to bomb Iran back to the Stone Age does not move men who are prepared to burn down their own country and their own people rather than relinquish their power or their ideology. And it is why some Iranian officials have welcomed the war as a distraction from the country’s internal challenges.
As a former real-estate developer who appointed fellow developers as his envoys, Trump has no mental framework for this adversary. In real estate, both sides want a transaction. But the U.S.-Iran relationship is not a negotiation of that sort. It is a cold war in which one side views normalization as a greater threat to its survival than conflict. The late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei chose martyrdom over normalization. Mojtaba, his son and successor, will likely make the same choice.
Trump’s hope was to turn Iran from an adversary into a partner, as he believes he did with Venezuela. The Islamic Republic is different. For the regime’s remaining leadership, hostility to America is not a bargaining chip; it is the foundation of the regime’s identity and sense of its own legitimacy—what political scientists call “ontological security.” Any deal that requires abandoning it is a greater existential threat than war. You cannot negotiate away the thing that justifies your existence.
Trump speaks about the systematic assassinations of Iran’s leadership with the nonchalance of a mob don. “Leave the gun; take the cannoli,” goes the famous line from The Godfather. “Most of the people we had in mind are dead,” Trump said about political succession in Iran. “Pretty soon, we’re not going to know anybody.” Iran’s leadership, in contrast, is steeped in a Shiite political culture premised on the 680 C.E. martyrdom of Imam Hussein. So long as this regime remains in power, it will mourn, and seek to avenge, the martyrdom of the 86-year-old Khamenei. For Trump, Khamenei’s killing was just business: “I got him before he got me,” he said of the Iranian leader.
The Islamic Republic’s paramount goal is survival. It is willing to destroy the country, and its people, rather than cede power. In the near term, that survival looks achievable: The regime retains enough coercive capacity to hold on. In the medium term, it is far less certain. But men fighting for their lives from bunkers do not think in the medium term. They think about tomorrow.
The assassination of Iran’s top leadership has left no figure with both the power and the will to deliver a major compromise with Washington. But Trump has reportedly pinned his hopes on Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf emerging as the pragmatist willing to break with the past and partner with Washington.
Ghalibaf is a former Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander, speaker of Parliament, and close adviser to the new supreme leader. He harbors ambitions of becoming Iran’s nationalist strongman—the man who saves the country from ruin. But ambition is not the same as capacity. He is a creature of the IRGC, the institution most committed to the regime’s ideological survival, and the war has narrowed rather than expanded the space for pragmatic maneuvering. His public statements on X—a combination of grandiose threats, anti-Semitism, and calculated appeals to the anti-imperialist left—are those of a man aspiring to lead the regime, not change it. The Islamic Republic is a path-dependent aircraft with neither a captain willing to turn the wheel nor a crew willing to let him.
Khamenei’s lasting legacy was to spend four decades purging pragmatists and filling the upper ranks of the regime with fellow principlists—men whose entire identity and advancement depended on ideological fealty to the revolution. The result is a system that has selected against the very qualities a transition would require. Nobody wants to be the Iranian Gorbachev—and Khamenei made sure there was no one capable of playing the role.
Trump’s—and America’s—predicament has no quick fix. A regime that came to power in 1979 by seizing the American embassy in Tehran and taking its personnel hostage now holds the global economy hostage, effectively controlling 20 percent of the world’s oil exports. Tehran has begun treating the Strait of Hormuz as its own Panama Canal, running a protection racket in which vessel owners are permitted safe passage only by obtaining IRGC pre-approval and paying tolls in Chinese yuan.
In its 47 years of existence, the Islamic Republic has made perhaps two major compromises. The first was its 1988 decision to end the Iran-Iraq war—after eight years of fighting and an estimated 200,000 Iranian deaths. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini famously likened that concession to drinking poison. The second was the 2015 nuclear deal with Barack Obama. In both cases, Iran had come under existential economic pressure, and in both it was offered a diplomatic exit that did not require it to abandon its revolutionary identity. Many of Iran’s people have concluded that this identity is the problem. But a critical mass of true believers has made the regime too rigid to bend and too ruthless to break.
Whenever this war ends, Iran’s leaders will inherit a country in ruins. And they will find themselves reviled both internally and internationally. Tehran’s stated terms for ending the war include reassurances that it won’t be attacked again, and reparations for the billions of dollars in damages it has endured. But so long as the Islamic Republic’s ideology and behavior remain unchanged—namely its commitment to “Death to America” and the destruction of Israel—neither condition is remotely achievable. No American president or Israeli prime minister will credibly promise not to attack a committed adversary, and the U.S. Congress will never vote for reparations to a government that has spent 47 years fighting America. Indeed, so long as Tehran aspires to rebuild its nuclear program, its missile arsenal, and its network of regional proxies, this war will likely have a sequel.
History suggests that an overconfident Tehran will overplay its hand. Its ideology compels it to pursue vengeance over advantage, even when the national interest demands restraint. This is the same regime that held American diplomats hostage for 444 days, extracting maximum humiliation from the United States at the cost of Iran’s own international standing. It prolonged its war with Iraq six years beyond the point when a favorable settlement was achievable. Believing itself the Middle East’s new hegemon, it was the lone country to publicly praise Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel—leading to the destruction of its regional proxies.
Trump is measuring this war not by what it will achieve but by what it has destroyed. History will judge it by its lasting impact on Iran, the Middle East, and the broader global order, once the bombs have stopped. Ordinary Iranians—many of whom placed undue hopes in swift American salvation—are left to navigate, for now, between two hells: a cruel regime that has spent nearly half a century repressing them, and a war that has so far deepened their despair rather than ended it.
this is a horrible, and yes, actually genocidal, thing to say, and while it may be the typical bombast of a madman who contradicts himself within every sentence, it should not be accepted or normalized. this is not “help” for the tens of millions trapped in Iran. threatening to wipe out an entire nation, claiming there’s been regime change (there hasn’t), and then offering blessings to the people you just threatened to destroy. this is no better than the terrorist threats and violent language used by regime officials. a betrayal of any standards of leadership and humanity.
meanwhile, the regime responds by positioning its people as human shields. the threat of annihilation doesn’t cause them to cower, it causes them to continue to punish and execute their own citizens.
Iran has executed at least five men over the past week in cases linked to anti-government protests and security-related charges, as human ri
Crowds form human chains around energy and infrastructure sites amid Trump threats; Iran warns region could face total blackout; Netanyahu c
This is not a kosher meal. Meat and dairy together lol. You are getting hard trolled by somebody who actually knows how piss poor the kosher trays on flights are.
The thing about your government splitting into 30 someodd independent autonomous entities as a kneejerk when your Supreme Leader becomes Supreme Maggot Food, will be the moment when one entity says the Strait or Hormuz is closed, while another says it is opened, while another still, says it's open but only to ships from X and Y countries, and then a fourth group says "we can open and close the strait at will? I thought we were mining the whole bitch!"
Lol "uhh they don't really control the straight bc I'm confused" they're making millions selling access to the straight, the IRGC is still able to coordinate it's actions regarding the straight of Hourmuz.
I think the confused party here is the one who does not know how to spell "Strait* of Hormuz".
And no, Iran is completely disorganized right now.
They can't decide if they're bombing Gulf countries or not.
They can't decide if they're talking to Trump or not.
They can't decide if the Strait of Hormuz is being mined and closed to all traffic or if a corrupted regional leader of the mosaic defense strategy is making millions ransoming access to the Strait for select countries whose boats are apparently mine-proof.
As per the plan, there is no longer a single military entity "Iran". Iran is now 30 independent military entities in a trench coat all operating under fog of war and doing their own thing.
I haven't claimed that Iran's military capability is destroyed. That would mean the war is over and no more fighting needs to occur.
I do think Iran's central military leadership is essentially destroyed, thus activating Iran's mosaic defense, and, as such, the left hand does not know what the right is doing anymore. As would be expected of a military strategy where you decentralize to many independently operating military leaders that do not answer to anyone in common.
>I haven't claimed that Iran's military capability is destroyed
yeah Idgaf if you yourself did, the ZioAmerican propaganda machine (which you regurgitate the feces of) claimed that Iran was beaten and everything was under control... reality proved otherwise, and the Supreme Council for National Security still exists, the IRGC still exists.
Mosaic Defense (something you clearly just heard about this week) isn't "everyone for themselves" it's a interconnected network of decentralized command nodes.
Absolutely incredible. "I don't care that you're not the strawman I already won an argument against in my head while I was in the shower, I say you're that strawman anyway, now please collapse into a defeated pile of hay".
No I'm firmly of the opinion that the war isn't over until the IRGC is replaced. Full stop. Not just with a new, fruitier Ayatollah. Not just defeated militarily, not just no longer a nuclear theat, not just no longer able to afford funding and training their regional proxies.
IRGC is defeated only when IRGC is replaced in power by someone else. Overthrown. You're not in an argument against Trump, whose brain is much like like the IRGC right now - one half doesn't know what the other half is doing. But I don't think even Trump is claiming the IRGC no longer exists, you've just made that up.
Yes I probably learned about Mosaic Defense around the same time you learned about the Heterosexual of Hormuz. That's because it's not a winning war strategy and I am not an encyclopedia of losing war strategies.
"Mosaic defense isn't decentralized, it's decentralized." Oh ok. Thanks for clarifying that none of the nodes answer to anybody in common and they can all make their own decisions independently of the others.
Correct, I LITERALLY do not care that you're not the strawman I already won an argument against in my head while I was in the shower, because I do not respect you, you are beneath me in every way, I only engage with you for amusement.
and a decentralized command network that can function without a central node is literally how the internet was invented.
Nah I ain't buying all that, you had the whole rest of the conversation with me, you're saying this now after you've lost the argument because you only trained up against strawmen and not actual men.
“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”
Jean-Paul Sartre, "Anti-Semite and Jew", 1946.
Some things just don't change!
The concept of the internet is not a military strategy, and Iran's internet is down anyway! You don't want someone in charge of the internet able to make executive decisions affecting the entire internet.
You do want this when you're a country at war where everyone needs to be on the same page at some level even if there is disagreement. Especially when you are fighting with missles and drones and not running an insurgency.
I'm really not sure what bringing the internet into this was supposed to do, but I suppose that's what happens when you shadowbox strawmen in the shower?
No no no I entirely see how they're similar. I am pointing out that there are massive problems that arise when you decentralize your country's military defense during an active war and pointing out that the internet and its predecessor are also decentralized doesn't do anything to alleviate the problems that arise when you decentralized your country's military defense during an active war.
"I only engage with you for amusement" sure is a way to say "I have nothing giving me meaning in my miserable life other getting attention on the internet"
anyway, fragmented communication in the army is a big vulnerability, especially when fighting against people who have a pretty extensive and successful agency of espionage and information gathering. The point of it is to stretch time and keep appearances in hopes that international pressure would lead to a ceasefire and would allow them to build back up. The longer the fighting goes on, the worse it would be for the IRGC as it currently is and the more likely it would be for the regime to fall.
which at the end of the day, is something we should all want.
tbh I should get off reddit, no amount of curating my feed will get rid of this fucking bullshit appearing there every fucking day.
The comment section is full of leftists both agreeing with this AND gasping in horror about the implication that their beliefs align with nazis (while in the same sentence invoking ZOG. can't make this up)
I think the fall of the clerical fascist regime in Iran would be good in and of itself but I really hope it won’t end up with the monarchy being restored. Imagine risking your life against one of the most oppressive states currently only for some unemployed zionist from Maryland and his comprador bourgeois buddies to take over
Hey so, as an Iranian in the diaspora who has family in Iran and keeps track of what's going on Iran, Reza Pahlavi is more than that for us. Protesters in Iran have been chanting his name overwhelmingly in the street and responded to his calls to action in large numbers. Chants include:
"Javid shah" ("Long live the shah")
"This is the last battle. Pahlavi will return"
"Reza shah, may your soul be happy." (in honor of his grandfather who founded the Pahlavi dynasty and started Iran down the path of modernization)
There is obviously diversity of thought, but he is the most popular opposition figure. In fact, he only wants to come in as the transitional leader, and as an advocate of secular democracy, believes that Iranians have the final say in what a post-IR Iran looks like. There's a sizable number of Iranians who aren't even pro-monarchy who still support him for this reason. (He's on camera saying that he wants people to have the right to vote against him.) More than that, he has a thorough, viable plan for helping Iran recover in all aspects (human rights, economy, environment) that has been made with a group of experts. He has been consistent in his views, and is far from being some unemployed person who just wants to benefit a small group of wealthy friends. And while you might find Israel controversial, there is a deep history and friendship between our people that spans millennia, and Jews and Israelis have been consistent allies of the Iranian people in their fight for freedom, which Iranians are grateful for. This all may be different than your views and expectations, but this is just a bit of the context and history for us Iranians.
We Iranians are collectively going through a terribly painful and difficult time. I can't share all the videos here, they are so appalling and too horrific. My heart is forever broken, yet I refuse to not look staright into the eyes of pure evil incarnate.
We don't even know if our loved ones are still alive. I haven’t heard anything from my family. The last message I got from a dear friend on Monday was that her 20 year old cousin was shot. 💔
I have a small request: please don't believe and amplify the false narratives of the Islamic Regime such as "this is a movement orchestrated by Israel and all protesters are Mossad agents and terrorists etc" or
"they just want your oil." Don’t be a mouthpiece of the Ayatollah, most of these people are so intellectually lazy and have no idea about the Middle East.
Iranians are not dumb.
If you can't speak out, at least don't add to our pain.
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