shawn1122
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- Comment on Shart of The Deal 3 days ago:
Agree that Mossadegh was imperfect but, in the eyes of many, Western meddling was one direct cause of the Mullah regime and the hipocrisy of claiming to stand for democracy while installing autocratic puppets around the world is all too apparent.
- Comment on Shart of The Deal 3 days ago:
Agreed thanks for the insights.
- Comment on Shart of The Deal 3 days ago:
This seems like an inaccurate representation of Iranian history so please feel free to elaborate. Sure Iran was an autocracy in 678 BC, not sure how that’s relevant to today, but Iran’s democracy was overthrown by Western powers when it tried to nationalize its oil. The West then installed an autocrat representing their interests until the revolution in 79.
- Comment on Shart of The Deal 3 days ago:
One can imagine that being told “a civilization will die tonight” will act as motivation for them to get one.
- Comment on Shart of The Deal 3 days ago:
It’s not just about how useful the dollar is to Iran, it’s about making it less useful to other countries also.
If Iranian oil is back on the market there will be a lot of interested buyers. If it’s only sold in yuan or crypto.
The petrodollar wasn’t going to last forever youre right but there are many parties interested in ending it sooner than later.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Always good to have standards.
- Comment on Why do some people with college degrees and an education, still act so fucking stupid? 1 week ago:
It’s even worse when you find out they’re not acting.
- Comment on Meanwhile in California 1 week ago:
For some reason this comment reminded me of that Cuban dude that retrofitted his car to run on coal because of American sanctions. What a world we live in.
- Comment on How to stop a parent from jumping into the nearest religious rabbit-hole to cope with a divorce? 1 week ago:
Spirituality is healthy when it isn’t exclusionary. Unfortunately it so often manifests that way.
Dont quote scripture at them. Approaching an emotional challenge with a logical solution is never well received. The other side just assumes you don’t understand them.
It what context are they lecturing? Is it due to people they’re directly interacting with or social media?
- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 3 weeks ago:
This is true wisdom.
- Comment on For Iranians, Bombing of Gas Field Worsens Already Dire Energy Crisis 3 weeks ago:
Up the escalation ladder we go, as instigated by Israel. They’ve already bombed Qatar’s LNG plant which is the biggest in the world.
- Comment on Happy 17th of March 3 weeks ago:
You’re absolutely right, the scale of the transatlantic slave trade was greater than ever before seen in human history.
Somewhere between 1 in 5 to 1 in 6 died on the journey alone.
One needs to also be aware that slavery as practiced by modern Western colonial empires was even more cruel than how slavery was practiced traditionally even dating back to antiquity.
In most of the world historically slavery was often contingent and there were several pathways to manumission (freedom). It was not an inherited status by default (partus sequiter ventrum).
The Western colonial empires very much perceived the entire world according to a race based caste system where Europeans were the highest caste and those of African descent were the lowest. Complexion defined your worth as a person. They spread this worldview globally, which has poisoned so many minds, and the world is still recovering from it to this day.
America adopted and upheld this race based caste system until the civil rights act passed in the 1960s (within the lifetimes of many of parents/grandparents). During the American era of slavery, slaves had no legal rights. They did not have personhood. Children of slaves were automatically also slaves from birth. Slaves could be grieviously injured or killed with impunity. They were seen as property, or livestock.
This is not how slavery was practiced historically around the world.
In fact, even ancient Greece and Rome (both of which thrived on slavery) had more legal protections and pathways to freedom. Slavery was not race based. In many cases, they had earnings and could eventually buy their freedom. In Rome they could be set free by an owner and become Roman citizens.
None of this is taught in American history likely because the ruling class worries it would hurt the average person’s national pride and their ability to exert control over them. But the truth is no society can improve without honestly reflecting on their past so I hope there will be some that read this and learn.
- Comment on Happy 17th of March 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think anyone is arguing that on a global scale though colonial/Western powers did decimate Africa and continue to engage in neocolonialism there.
But if we’re talking about American history we need to be transparent about the fact that this was a nation that was an apartheid state until about half a century ago and the consequences of that reverberate to the present day.
- Comment on send thoughts and peer review 3 weeks ago:
Not mutually exclusive though I can understand how the West’s experience has led them to that conclusion.
Though there are many scientists in the West that are religious.
One has to understand that the purpose of prayer and community isn’t necessarily to improve material circumstances.
- Comment on Unconventional strategy. 4 weeks ago:
When you’re persecution complex is so robust you reanimate the Old Testament despite being a “secular” nation.
- Comment on Every single time. 5 weeks ago:
Melania is that you?
- Comment on Real Height 📏 1 month ago:
I think you touched on how social pressure can make it toxic.
By no means advocating for a change in how we define adulthood but a recent paper looking at topographical turning points in the brain identified adolescence as extending from 9 to 32 years of age which explains a lot in my view.
- Comment on Game over 1 month ago:
Might be a good time to learn about the curry leaf.
- Comment on Real Height 📏 1 month ago:
Most people don’t really know what they want until they’ve had their perspective is broadened.
Filtering people out based on specific physical attributes is wild in my opinion. So glad I found my partner before that became ‘normal’.
That being said I’m speaking for full fledged adults. We have research now that suggests adolesence extends to age 32. I wouldn’t be suprised if people in their 20s were trying to optimize ear or nipple size in their search for a partner, just from my memory of living through that age.
- Comment on Stereotyping is wrong. 1 month ago:
If we’re going off election results it would be two thirds of white men and more than half of white women.
- Comment on Stereotyping is wrong. 1 month ago:
For which party and why?
- Comment on Anon disrespects their elders 1 month ago:
This must be devastating for the Switch which also happens to be nearly tied for best selling console of all time.
- Comment on Why does most American's give shit to the French when if not for them we would have lost the revolution? 1 month ago:
France has no US military bases on its soil and has refused to be entirely vassalized by the US unlike most of the rest of Europe. It’s one of few Western countries that has managed to maintain strategic autonomy in the face of US hegemony. Refusal to participate in the war in Iraq is an example of this, while countries like the UK followed blindly like a good little lap dog.
- Comment on Japan cancels cherry blossom festival over complaints of tourists littering and ‘defecating’ in yards 2 months ago:
The article makes the claim that homes have been broken into.
- Comment on Japan cancels cherry blossom festival over complaints of tourists littering and ‘defecating’ in yards 2 months ago:
Great insight.
- Comment on Japan cancels cherry blossom festival over complaints of tourists littering and ‘defecating’ in yards 2 months ago:
Being accustomed to bad infrastructure means they won’t use good infrastructure if it’s right in front of them? That’s an interesting assumption to make of those of lesser means.
Yes, I can see that being a problem. But it comes back to Japanese infrastructure not having the capacity so I’m glad they’re doing the responsible thing by shutting it down. Hopefully they can come up with a solution so that businesses that see a lot of revenue due to this festival don’t get hit too hard.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
If you talk to locals, yes, this is the stereotype.
- Comment on Japan cancels cherry blossom festival over complaints of tourists littering and ‘defecating’ in yards 2 months ago:
Lots of narrative building going on in this thread. I’m in another comment chain where the case is being made that Japan has the best maintained and widely available toilets in the world and yet people are still choosing to break into homes to use the bathroom and defecate in the open despite this. Hard to believe anyone can genuinely buy this so one can only assume that the underlying intentions is, rather than having a discussion in good faith, to pit this one one group of people while absolving Japan of any reaponsibility.
Which is their prerogative but it’s important that they acknowledge their bias. Japan is headed towards an alarming demographic collapse with 40% of its population being pensioners by 2046. Tourism is one of the few industries that will keep their economy and social services functional so I do genuinely hope they figure this out, for their sake.
- Comment on Japan cancels cherry blossom festival over complaints of tourists littering and ‘defecating’ in yards 2 months ago:
You genuinely think a person would forgo a functional (let’s take udon’s word for it - world class) toilet to break into someone’s house in a foreign country just to use their bathroom? That doesn’t seem like a stretch to you?
- Comment on Japan cancels cherry blossom festival over complaints of tourists littering and ‘defecating’ in yards 2 months ago:
Feel free to make a counter argument based on your personal experience, if you have one. What would be the reason?