A lot of Iranians were profiting personally from the Shah’s corruption, and they and their descendants are extremely upset and will do anything to demonize Iran today. This is much more common in the diaspora than in those who stayed in Iran, for obvious reasons.
The lecturer said the revolution happened because people disliked the Shah having more than others, but she did not elaborate this in any way.
The revolution happened because the Shah was an imperialist dog ruining the lives of the people and his agents disappeared and murdered anyone who opposed this.
Now my understanding is that the social democratic movement there was destroyed by the West in the 50s and the following twenty+ years under the Shah led to a sort of pseudorevolution that wasn’t entirely progressive in nature. Is this correct or wrong?
As far as I know, your understanding is generally correct.
The CIA imposed the Shah on Iran, and when it was clear he was on the way out, the assisted the Ayatollahs. Both political systems were imposed on Iran by outside pressure - in the first case entirely, and in the second case only partly.
Edit: removed some text, had misread your comment.
“Israel is doing what the unions want.”
You’re right, there are only a few. However, I’m surprised and disappointed that there are any at all.
This thread is an embarrassment, I can’t believe there are people on Hexbear handwringing about violence against settler civilians. Did Native Americans never kill colonizer civilians? Are we going to start condemning the Haitian revolutionaries?
Israelis are constantly pretending they live in fear of being killed by Palestinian “terrorists”. Have they considered fucking leaving, which is an option the Palestinians don’t even have? No Israeli children would be in a position to be killed in the fighting or held hostage if their colonizer parents hadn’t put them there. These children are victims, but they’re victims of their colonizer parents and colonizer politicians.
You want to talk about children being held hostage to ensure compliance from adults? How many Palestinian children are there in the open air prison of Gaza, where 2/3 of the population are under 25 years old?
Mfer was doing documentation for the F-35 😂
Objectively doing good for the world.
targeted at the wrong people
spec ops idiots thinking this was going to be like that one time they blew up a wedding in Afghanistan
Edit: also all the fascist Redditors hoping to help out their Azov heroes. The only ones in the bunch worth feeling bad for even a bit are the handful of idiots taken for a ride by the propaganda storm, and even then, they signed up for war.
If anything, anti-maskers are worse than drunk drivers. At least drunk drivers haven’t formed a political movement to force everyone to drive drunk. (You do not, under any circumstance, “gotta hand it to em”, etc., etc.).
100% do not trust any dog until they are proven to be friendly - regardless of breed. People will walk their aggressive dogs off leash and be like “no it’s ok they’re friendly” as they run you down in the park.
“I call it a government-steered economy.”
lmao westoids too scared to say DoTP
or they could just call it SWCC
Western historians and just making shit up - name a better pair.
“Hitler is basically the German Trump”