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2nd Amendment posted:People who want to give the Shah smooches usually identify as Persian. Also Jews who fled. I’ve never heard them use the term Iranian (anecdotal fwiw).
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to a western audience there's probably some people out there who will knee-jerk 'oh wow how brave of you  ' to something like thisbut holy poo poo this plus everything else we've been seeing is insanely brave
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Is it even really that brave? I've been shouting "gently caress Khamenei" all day, and nobody salutes me  E: Moar https://i.imgur.com/t3xz3H3.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/P4fS7u9.mp4 mobby_6kl fucked around with this message at 22:53 on Oct 4, 2022 |
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CommieGIR posted:https://twitter.com/BBCParham/status/1577253339133247489?s=20&t=EzLzcYgFJ-v3ASoX0bKFGw Monstrous.
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Oct 5, 2022 08:59
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Iranians do senior ditch day right.
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2nd Amendment posted:People who want to give the Shah smooches usually identify as Persian. There's a lot of baggage that comes out on the part of other people when one mentions they're from Iran in the US. "Persian" rings less obvious alarm bells in the dumber parts of our country.
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Oct 6, 2022 02:34
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Iranians also have their share of gusanos
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Oct 6, 2022 03:48
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When Khamenei gives ground to the "womenfolk" the mullahs must really be nervous.
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Eric Cantonese posted:There's a lot of baggage that comes out on the part of other people when one mentions they're from Iran in the US. "Persian" rings less obvious alarm bells in the dumber parts of our country. Like Hollywood and other fashionable parts Los Angeles? Edit: the family who sold my parents rugs to support people fleeing the ayatollah (as was the fashion of the time) they were Iranians. The people who supplied the rugs to little mom and pop stores all over the country were Persians. 2nd Amendment fucked around with this message at 03:58 on Oct 6, 2022 |
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Good article in today's NY Times analyzing social media of the protests. Read for free here
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Negostrike posted:Iranians also have their share of gusanos Uhhh isn’t that an ethnic slur
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I'm not super sure what gusanos could mean beyond the literal meaning of maggots.
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It's a class slur, I guess, for the Cubans that fled the revolution. I'm not a slur doctor so it could be an ethnic slur, I don't use it anyway
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gusanos are generally pro-capitalist conservatives so maggots works.
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lol *looking through my book of old-timey & region-specific slurs*
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Toxic Mental posted:Uhhh isn’t that an ethnic slur No more than kapo.
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it is a class slur BUT since iut is a spanish word and used to describe cubans (not exclusively, but typically) we've rated this slure as 43% racial. as the poster used it in a context not referring to cubans and instead to class traitors, they have slurred the target in a non-racial way. slur has been approved. ticket closed
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:it is a class slur BUT since iut is a spanish word and used to describe cubans (not exclusively, but typically) we've rated this slure as 43% racial. as the poster used it in a context not referring to cubans and instead to class traitors, they have slurred the target in a non-racial way. slur has been approved. ticket closed Another QCS success story.
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It’s a good word. Feels good to shout it at class traitor maggots. Only a class traitor maggot would have a problem with it. You’re not a class traitor maggot are you?
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I'm not going to open the big book of slurs to find esoteric ones that may have been used in the 1600s to denote a certain class of people that may or may not currently exist let's keep the focus on the brave Iranian demonstrators can we?
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2nd Amendment posted:Like Hollywood and other fashionable parts Los Angeles? I grew up in Virginia and at least in my part of the state (outside of the more cosmopolitan north), the Iranian families I knew used "Persian" because people where we lived didn't go into Delta Force-addled "WHY DID Y'ALL TAKE HOSTAGES?!?!" mode. Keep in mind I also knew Sikhs who got a ton of crap because of their turbans so our experiences may just differ a lot.
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lol don't mind the brutal police state Che was a hero and the cops only hurt bad people as cops are wont, nothing to see here
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After seeing some of the comments in this thread, I just want to say that people shouldn't love the Shah, but I have to strongly disagree with anyone who think Iranians were better off under any part of the Islamic Republic's existence than they were under Reza Pahlavi. And the IRI has gone way further than SAVAK at this point in running a domestic suppression apparatus. In fact, the IRI was more than happy to absorb a lot of ex-SAVAK people for their own secret police needs. It's depressing to think of the 1970s as Iran's high water mark, but it's not like the decades since then have been golden times either. Anyway, I hope this protests can lead to something good, but I don't have much faith in anything happening besides the IRI doubling down on cruelty and violence.
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Not seeing any protest footage but Amnesty has this report out. quote:Iran: At least 82 Baluchi protesters and bystanders killed in bloody crackdown Events from a week ago, but seems pretty bad
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Eric Cantonese posted:After seeing some of the comments in this thread, I just want to say that people shouldn't love the Shah, but I have to strongly disagree with anyone who think Iranians were better off under any part of the Islamic Republic's existence than they were under Reza Pahlavi. You’ll know people have gone brain broke if they start posting “people are better off under theocratic fascists” posts
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I could do be wrong, but I don't remember the protests in 08 resulting in nearly as many deaths. This is horrendous.
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"unlawfully" as if a security state has any laws worth the name
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This guy’s pretty convinced we’re witnessing the beginning of the end. https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1679528/Iran-protests-latest-Khamenei-Islamic-Republic-collapse-BBC-World-news-vn  
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Cartoon Man posted:This guy’s pretty convinced we’re witnessing the beginning of the end. It's really difficult for me to get a good feeling of what's going on on the ground, but if the sorts of protests we've seen earlier are still going on, it's definitely a good sing. I don't think any regime, no matter how violent or coercive, can survive when the majority of the people are taking a stand against it.
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mobby_6kl posted:It's really difficult for me to get a good feeling of what's going on on the ground, but if the sorts of protests we've seen earlier are still going on, it's definitely a good sing. I don't think any regime, no matter how violent or coercive, can survive when the majority of the people are taking a stand against it. I mean, there's Syria and although you can point to its sectarian divisions, that was still a case of the majority of the population taking a stand against the regime, for months on end, and then the regime just kept doubling down on the violence and now... well. That said, based on the limited information I have of what's going on, I don't really see how their authority survives this, reforms alone aren't gonna do it I think. It does seem to me like it's either fold or go full violent and burn the country the ground with a chance of ruling the ashes. I'm not sure they really can do the latter without securing some international backing or guarantees. That almost certainly can't be Russia in the current situation, unlike Syria Iran doesn't have an "Iran" to prop them up and bring in militias either (though I wonder if they might be trying to get in Hezbollah and Iraqi militias if they get really desperate), that might be China, though they usually strike me as far too cautious (they are often quick to insist on non-interference in other countries, and the Iranian regime seems like they're going heavily on the protesters being driven by "foreign agents" in that press release from totally alive and not dead Ali Khamenei).
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Strategic Tea posted:lol don't mind the brutal police state Che was a hero and the cops only hurt bad people as cops are wont, nothing to see here So what’s up with Iran today?
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Randarkman posted:I mean, there's Syria and although you can point to its sectarian divisions, that was still a case of the majority of the population taking a stand against the regime, for months on end, and then the regime just kept doubling down on the violence and now... well. At least from what we've seen, it doesn't seem like there's much resistance within the police/military. The protestors aren't well armed and the Kurds are pretty much the only non governmental force who could feasibly stand up to a crackdown, and only in a relatively small part of the west of the country. As long as the security forces continue to follow orders what's stopping them cracking down if they really have to? Nor have we seen much from governing institutions that might decouple themselves from the official line and just start functioning separately. Don't get me wrong, everything we're seeing is astonishingly brave, and I hope the best for the people of Iran, but most of the country is still broadly functioning, and if the situation goes downhill the protestors don't really have a response to troops rolling in.
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mobby_6kl posted:Inshallah. Tell that to Burma
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Majority of people ain’t mean nothing without the support of the military.
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Helps to have russia bomb your enemies too. That's one counter-indicator for a successful coup or revolution. Anyway they're still going strong https://twitter.com/YOURANONONENEWS/status/1578687477753479168  https://twitter.com/Vahid/status/1578716677872971782
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Toxic Mental posted:It would be cool if Iran becomes a constitutional democracy This is fine. https://twitter.com/DennisN/status/1578772289553776642 https://twitter.com/Shayan86/status/1578799747808505856 https://twitter.com/Shayan86/status/1578632866971684864 https://i.imgur.com/Bv5E9iE.mp4 mobby_6kl fucked around with this message at 21:06 on Oct 8, 2022 |
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