Yes. My humour is unclear.

I’ve grown up using one of these bad boys:

When you are a neoliberal, you try to solve problems with neoliberalism.

When you are a communist, you try to solve problems with dialectical materialism.

A robot to fill the dishwasher? Can’t you just use the dishwasher?

There are so many people who complain about chores like the laundry. Come on Jack, the laundry machine is doing your laundry - not you.

Is it too much to ask people to put shit in a box? What’s next, are people going to get a robot to wipe and wash their asses for them? Just use a shelang.

The anglos say “The pen is mightier than the sword” that is, if you bullshit well enough - you don’t have to fight.

The Persians say that “Blood prevails the blade” that is, if you are resilient in sacrifice you can beat oppression.

I don’t know whether to take seriously or just as frustrated outbursts.

Definitely frustrated outbursts.

it is nonsense to accuse people of slutshaming a sovereign nation.

Is it? Psychologically it is difficult to cope with hearing that a lady got sexually assaulted. Some brains look for solutions, and when culture and society are designed to push women down - it is easy to look at the framing and say - well why didn’t you just comply?

When I’ve debated Iranian diaspora who hate the Islamic Republic, they criticize Iran for thinking it could ever stand up to a powerful country like the US (I wonder what these people would say now).

A lot of the people on the left feel hurt to see an Iran getting attacked, and look for solutions. Then they look to blame Iran for not following them when they see what is happening. It comes from a position of hurt to see a victim, and then people reinforce the narratives that push it down.

Iran has a fatwa against nuclear weapons. I’m sure you can see the intelligence and patience behind Iranian strategy. Some people criticize Iran for being too violent against women and others in one breath, and then attack it for being too moral with it’s patience and nonproliferation in another.

Either you believe Iran is sincere in the fatwa, in which case don’t criticize it for having moral standards - or you believe it is a cynical/deceptive strategy - in which case you should know by now that these people aren’t stupid and you should trust that they’ve gamed out what happens if they proliferate nukes.

And how about a “well regulated militia” as the US 2nd amendment says.

What benefits does the civilian government have?

Let’s pretend that we aren’t Iranians and are in contemporary Argentina.

We have a large segment (maybe even a majority) who is reactionary.

As soon as we start an anti-imperial revolution, we should expect to be invaded.

We need a political military force like the IRGC to draw on the advanced population as well as to organize militias from the community.

A nonpartisan military like the artesh would be an effective way of drawing on the non-advanced segments of the population as a labour-force.

A civilian government could also help to draw on that labour in other ways.

This is effective counterinsurgency. You want the reactionary segments of your population fighting to keep their jobs, rather than fighting you to stay alive.

But once you succeed in pushing off the counterrevolution, do you think that the nonpartisan military (artesh) needs to be dissolved? Do you put everything in the purview of the political military?

And of the civilian government, you only pointed out downsides. But I’m confused by your statement that you want the parallel governance to stay. What benefits do you see in it that you want to keep it? Is it also to draw on the labour of the non-advanced population?

Interesting. So you view the strategy of parallel governances to be a mistake?

Why did the ayatollahs set up the system this way then?

No one in the IRGC is elected? How do you ensure democracy there?

Here we go again… It’s a cycle isn’t it?

Who is going to build the railways, hospitals, maintain the medical records, the telecoms, etc?

In Iran’s case the IRGC did in fact build all of that, but the IRGC is effectively parallel government for protecting the revolution.

What you are arguing against is the civilian elected government. You’re arguing against the vote.

Should an advanced Marxist party form a dictatorship of the party or a dictatorship of the proletariat? The less educated masses aren’t going to be as developed in their understanding, or as advanced in their theory, than members of the party.

https://hexbear.net/post/9136331 Stalin fought for dictatorship of the proletariat.

This is a debate that the Soviets had long long ago.

Looks like Turkey and Ireland are doing okay.

I don’t have the duress password on my phone

• I don’t trust a kid not to wipe my phone
• I don’t have anything sensitive on there

But it’s a really cool feature.

Iran has a massive incentive to offer free public transport, given that they are providing extreme gas subsidies at the pump and that people would riot if they try to increase the gas prices at the pump.

IIRC, the greatest predictor of social mobility is transportation.

Followed by education and a bunch of other stuff.

Which is also free in Iran.

China might save the world from technological collapse by distributing chips production outside of a few fragile supply chains.

they are okay

The female soldier who got misted probably was low-T

sonic poop > explosive diarrhea