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He seems like he might be a good leadership candidate. 69 year old former Khuzestan Governor with a couple of advanced degrees and military experience as a medic. They've used him in a diplomatic role, meeting the Qatari Emir and negotiating the Shahed drone transfer to Russia. Doesn't seem like the kind of guy who would lead Iran in a different direction.
That'd be a great place to stash some Israeli dissidents
I heard second-hand from one of his hookers that he likes to hire women for BDSM play with him as the top. Explains a lot really
Hopefully they make good user-friendly alternatives instead of letting their tech sector copy the worst rent-seeking practices of US firms.
Marijuana isn't even cool anymore
See this line makes no sense to me. A two state solution is would help preserve Israel long-term. Heightening tensions threaten to lead to collapse. It's not actually in Israel's interests to pursue this kind of conflict, it's happening due to a particular set of internal political contradictions. I also don't read US support for Israel as some Machiavellian imperial plot. It undermines imperial interests pretty heavily to be constantly pissing off the whole Arab world. It forces them to rely on illegitimate and therefore weak regimes and constantly engage directly in the region to stymie organized resistance. It's really just zionist ideology driving this whole endeavor.
I really disagree that support for Israel is just a straightforward extension of imperialist interests. It really is its own project that exerts outsized political influence even to the detriment of the imperialist project as a whole. The ambivalent attitude towards Israel by early post-war US governments demonstrates this. Truman and Eisenhower treated Israel on the basis of objective interests of the empire. US politicians in more recent times will sacrifice imperial interests to support Israel, and that is definitely due to their political influence and blackmail operations.
Peering deep into the TradCath rabbit hole and how they think Biden is some kind of satanist makes the secret Vatican agent Biden meme so much funnier.
IDK things just have this heavy inertia right now. It doesn't feel like history is breaking free just yet.
Intense moralism combined with repressed nationalism. This same dynamic will lead to some switch flipping someday that turns them full-on literal Nazi.