There are a lot of people that are capable of suppressing women without the US just fine. Just have q quick look at the Arabic peninsula, or the Taliban.
It’s why iran has so many educated women and is weirdly technologically powerful for a theocratic regime. Iran in the 70s was modern. Inshallah the people of iran will be freed from the tyranny of theocracy.
But yeah, iran is what should scare you the most because their collapse was fast and unexpected.
Nah, we funded both Iran and the Taliban. We even elected a guy who illegally funneled weapon sales to Iran in order to take that money and give it to Nicaraguan death squads. Arguably, without US support, neither gets the critical mass it needs to effect regime change or become anything more than an upstart.
bob_lemon@feddit.org 2 days ago
There are a lot of people that are capable of suppressing women without the US just fine. Just have q quick look at the Arabic peninsula, or the Taliban.
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 2 days ago
This is Iran in the 1970s, before the US got involved.
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Call_Me_Maple@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Wow, I’ve never seen this before. I don’t mean this in a derogatory way or anything, but they look like people.
Mossheart@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
They still are, they’re just people that are repressed by a theocracy now.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s why iran has so many educated women and is weirdly technologically powerful for a theocratic regime. Iran in the 70s was modern. Inshallah the people of iran will be freed from the tyranny of theocracy.
But yeah, iran is what should scare you the most because their collapse was fast and unexpected.
Mirshe@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Nah, we funded both Iran and the Taliban. We even elected a guy who illegally funneled weapon sales to Iran in order to take that money and give it to Nicaraguan death squads. Arguably, without US support, neither gets the critical mass it needs to effect regime change or become anything more than an upstart.
bob_lemon@feddit.org 1 day ago
The Taliban hated women long before being funded by the US, and hating women was not why they are funded. Same for the fundamentalist Iranian Muslims.
Them being in power (and the subsequent suffering of women) can be attributed to the US, but not them hating women per se.
I like hating on the US as much as anyone, but let’s not pretend they’re the source of all evil (only lots).
plyth@feddit.org 21 hours ago
Without the funding, most of those people would believe different things.
CaptnNMorgan@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The women in the middle east weren’t nearly as suppressed before the US got involved