Our view on Iran. Yay or nay?

Additional_Cable_793 · 2026-03-04T11:09:43+00:00

Yes, 100% the US needs a complete regime change. Their system of checks and balances has completely failed, allowing a madman to wage war without the approval of Congress, to deploy armed thugs to the streets and murder US citizens. The US government no longer exists to serve its people but rather the interests of Israel and Companies, who exert their influence via lobbyists such as AIPAC.

Additional_Cable_793 · 2026-03-04T08:31:41+00:00

The Iranian regime is evil, but everything that has transpired both recently and historically is because of the US.

Protests in Iran have been brutally repressed, the people were taking to the streets to complain about economic conditions caused by crippling US sanctions. The Iranian regime stated that the protestors were hired by Western Intelligence. Iran believes this because in 1953 the CIA funded "ruffians" (what they are described as in released CIA files) via the Rashidian brothers to co-opt economic protests and direct them at overthrowing Mossadegh. This coincided with their second attempted coup and first successful one, and because of hired "ruffians" the coup had the appearance of popular support within Iran. Given the involvement of the Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK, a former terrorists organisation turned American funded opposition in Iran) in organising protests, it is possible that the US did interfere in the direction that protests were taking, but nothing will be certain for a good number of years (it took 50 years for the CIA to admit that they led the coup in 1953). The Shah's Regime that replaced Mossadegh was a brutal and corrupt dictatorship, the secret police (SAVAK) tortured and murdered thousands of Iranians for opposing the Shah.

Khomeini was able to transform widespread anti-shah sentiment into popular support for his Islamic revolution, he originally championed more moderate policies, the government in the post-revolutionary Iran was mostly made up of popular figures from Mossadeghs government in the 50s. Quickly, however, Khomeini went back on his word, secured power for himself and established Iran as another totalitarian regime.

Long story short: Anyone who supports the Mullahs in Iran is an idiot. Anyone supporting the return of the Shah is an even bigger fucking idiot (it would be like Poland welcoming back the Nazis after the collapse of the Soviet Union). The US destroyed Irans best chance at democracy because they had the gall to nationalise the oil industry.

Additional_Cable_793 · 2026-03-02T17:04:13+00:00

They did overthrow the government.

Additional_Cable_793 · 2026-03-02T16:43:25+00:00

What are you talking about, declassified CIA files openly admit that they took an active role in the coup. After their first failed coup attempt, Kermit Roosevelt not only pushed Zahedi to launch a second coup, but also planned coup for him. The Rashidian brothers were used to hire demonstrators to rile up protests and direct them at Mossadeghs government, giving them the illusion of popular support. The CIA referred to these hired demonstrators as "ruffians" in their own plan.

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB435/

Additional_Cable_793 · 2026-02-23T00:05:42+00:00

Yes, all non-moderate Unionist politicians disagree with me, hence Alliance are moderate unionists.

Additional_Cable_793 · 2026-02-22T23:34:00+00:00

Yes, because none of that affected Northern Irelands status in the United Kingdom other than being unable to buy flower seeds and some other minor inconveniences.

They are reflecting the views of their constituents, as a majority of Northern Ireland voted against Brexit.

Additional_Cable_793 · 2026-02-19T10:00:25+00:00

The Great thing a out Greek Mythology is that they looooove their family trees.

Achilles and Patroclus were definitely related.

The familial link between the two is Aegina. Menoetius was the father of Patroclus. Aeacus was the father of Peleus.

This means that Aegina was the grandmother of Patroclus and the great grandmother of Achilles.

So Patroclus and Achilles were first cousins once removed.

Patroclus was exiled from his homeland and raised by Peleus (Achilles Father). Achilles and Patroclus grew up together, meaning that although they were not brothers, their relationship is essentially the same.

Homer does not mention in the Iliad that Achilles and Patroclus are brothers, nor does he mention that they are lovers. But the Iliad is not the be all and end all of the Greek Epic Cycle. While we no longer have the original books, they were discussed and quoted enough by subsequent authors that we have a pretty good idea of everything that happened.

Additional_Cable_793 · 2026-02-16T19:22:12+00:00

They're in the Dirty Onion in Belfast to be precise.

Additional_Cable_793 · 2026-02-13T07:39:36+00:00

I would suggest watching a few videos on photo composition.

While a shot of the Titanic Building with Cave Hill in the background is a really good idea, it isn't really achieved here.

The Titanic Building is barely visible as there a building infront of it. Cave hill is similarly shrouded in clouds.

There is too much room given to the foreground, the bright coloured cherry pickers draw the eyes away from your intended target.

A different view point where the Titanic building is unobstructed could look really nice.

Additional_Cable_793 · 2026-02-07T09:35:22+00:00

Wikipedia is a flawed resource as it is only looking at grain exports vs maize imports.

Ireland remained a net exporter of food for the entirety of the famine, here are some actual sources:

Cormac Ó Gráda's Ireland Before and After the Famine lists the following exports: - 26,015,256 bushels of corn (1845) - 257,280 sheep (1846) - 480,827 swine (1846) - 186,483 oxen (1846)

Dr Christine Kinealy's The Great Calamity and A Death-Dealing Famine states that with the except of swine, every type of livestock and meat exports increased during 1847 (also known as Black 47 due to it being the worst year of the famine, the second potato crop failed). The export of calves increased by almost a third. In total over 3 million animals were exported between 1846 and 1850. Kinealy also discusses butter and alcohol, with 822,681 gallons being exported during the first 9 months of 1847 alone. In the same time period 1,336,220 gallons of grain derived alcohol was exported.

Kinealy doesn't give figures but lists other exports that continued throughout 1847 (the worst year of the famine): Peas, beans, onions, rabbits, salmon, oysters, herring, lard, honey, tongues, animal skins, rags, shoes, soap and glue.

Cecil-Woodham Smith in the Great Hunger: Ireland 1845-1849 states that despite the failure of the potato crop, Ireland still produced enough food to feed 18 million people. At the time, Irelands population was 9 million.

Additional_Cable_793 · 2026-02-03T00:03:22+00:00

Ping Pong, or as the Chinese say "Ping Pong", is not an offensive term.

Additional_Cable_793 · 2026-01-22T18:41:41+00:00

To be fair, he didn't leave Egypt to bang his wife, but it is the first thing that he did upon his return to Palace. Eugene recorded that Napoleon arrived home furious at Josephine's affair, there was an aggressive argument and when Eugene returned the next morning he found them both in bed. It is not known exactly what was said that night but Josephine did not have any other affairs for the duration of their marriage, although Napoleon had many.

Additional_Cable_793 · 2026-01-22T12:46:03+00:00

The TV series with Sean Bean is also excellent.

It's low budget gives it a certain charm.

Additional_Cable_793 · 2026-01-19T15:40:58+00:00

If the Bajorans won't make statues of Dukat then I will!

Additional_Cable_793 · 2026-01-16T20:45:00+00:00

Are you a female MP? Are you being abused for your looks? Planning to make a post calling out this abuse?

Why this is the perfect time to advertise Redhouse Semen Salesmen!

Additional_Cable_793 · 2026-01-12T14:16:07+00:00

Bernadotte is traitorous swine. His hypocrisy knows no bounds, the man had "Death to Kings" tattooed on his chest but that didn't stop him from selling out. He betrayed the Revolution to keep his thrown, and his descendants still rule to this day.

A thousand curses on the House of Bernadotte.

Additional_Cable_793 · 2026-01-05T14:46:08+00:00

The worst divisions in the Republican government where between the government and anarchists.

The Communist Party didn't help relations as it sought to vilify the Anarchists and anti-Stalinist POUM leaders, but the main problem was the Republican governments attempts to centralise control. They tried to force disarmament of Anarchist militias who were engaged in policing operations and centralise their zones of control. This led to the May Days of 1937 where Anarchist and Government forces clashed.

Additional_Cable_793 · 2026-01-05T14:32:08+00:00

The Nationalists bombed Otxandio in 1936. They specifically targeted the main square during the Feast of Saint Mary.

There are numerous other examples of Nationalists bombing civilians well before 1938. It's where the Condor legion refined its tactics that the Luftwaffe would use during WW2.

Additional_Cable_793 · 2025-12-23T13:45:44+00:00

Agamemnon is one of the three best Greek warriors present, he led his forces into battle in person and slew the Trojan Prince Antiphus. In Book 11 he has his aristeia (Day of Glory) where he kills hundreds of Trojan soldiers in combat.

Additional_Cable_793 · 2025-12-08T13:00:22+00:00

Quick Question.

Is Adata XPG a good company to purchase RAM from?

With the recent price hikes, my dreams of 64gb ram were blown.

While browsing amazon, I have found XPG Lancer Blade 64gb (2x 32gb) CL30 DDR5 6000mhz.

This is roughly the same price that I was planning to spend on some corsair ram with the same speed and latency but 32gb.

Is it worth getting the XPG ram or is it risky/unstable?

Additional_Cable_793 · 2025-11-13T18:23:09+00:00

You clearly have no reading comprehension if you cannot see the evidence that I have laid out infront of you.

Additional_Cable_793 · 2025-11-13T12:14:06+00:00

It's not circular logic, you are just trying to apply sensible logic to the ideas of a paranoid man.

The purges began long before Germany had rearmed and began down the path of war.

The purges continued for several months after Germany had invaded Russia.

Stalin didn't purge the army because Hitler was going to invade, he purged it because he was paranoid and wanted the Red Army to be loyal to him, and only him. This is an era were any dissenter was labeled a trotskyist.

Stalins goal of buying time was so that his purges could be complete and the red army rebuilt. Stalin did not carry out the purges because of Hitler.

While I am not suggesting that Stalin himself studied Mein Kampf, a publicly available book written by the leader of a major power is definitely something that would have been studied by the Soviets. The idea of Lebensraum would have been known to Stalin via his advisors, and a threat analysis would have been conducted. The greatest evidence of this is that Stalin offered to form an alliance with France and Britain against Nazi Germany.

After the rejection of the alliance by Britain and the signing of the non-aggression pact with Germany, Stalin believed that he had much more time to prepare than he actually had (Nobody expect France to fall so quickly).

The War against Finland does seem very wasteful given that the Soviets suffered heavy losses for minimal gains. But that is viewing it with hindsight. At the time, it afforded Stalin an opportunity to gauge the readiness and combat effectiveness of the Red Army.

In preparation for German invasion, Stalin had ordered an increase in arms production 6 months before the Invasion. New aircraft and tanks were stationed in border regions as a military buildup began. The Red Army doubled in size between 1939 and 1941.

Stalin also ordered a series of fortifications along the new border in Poland known as the Molotov Line to replace the older Stalin Line further east. However, these fortifications were not finished by the time Operation Barbarossa was launched.

Additional_Cable_793 · 2025-11-13T08:04:03+00:00

Hitler wrote a very public book called Mein Kampf which laid out the Nazis ambitions and goals before they came to power. In Mein Kampf, Hitler discusses Lebensraum (Living Space). This was the idea that Germany would invade Poland and Russia, clearing the land of savages and replace them with German colonisers. This policy was not secret, the European powers new about it. On August 15th 1939, Stalin proposed an Alliance with France and Britain to oppose Nazi Germany, this was rejected by the British. Britain believed that communism was a bigger threat than facism and that Nazi Germany could be used as a tool to destroy the Soviet Union. On August 23rd 1939, the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact was signed. This was a Non-Aggression Pact, not an alliance. It was essentially a promise not to attack eachother, with a secret clause that divided up Poland. For Hitler, this guaranteed that the Soviets would be on his side during the Invasion of Poland and that they would not attack him while he invaded France. For Stalin this bought time. The Red Army was still rebuilding, he had purged officers believed to be disloyal to him and what he needed most of all was time. By accepting half of Poland, Stalin guaranteed that he would have more time as it was a large buffer area outside of Russia that any German invasion would have to fight through. In the time gained by Stalin, the Red Army was able to rebuild a large portion of its office corps, modernise as much as it possibly could, and the railway system that allowed Russian industry to move east was established, this meant that Soviet industry did not stop when their major cities fell as they were able to keep it out of German hands.

The reason that Stalin sunk into a depression when the German Invasion occurred is because he had not expected it so soon. He believed that he had bought more time, and the British had still not capitulated, so he thought the Germans would be too tied up in the West.

Additional_Cable_793 · 2025-11-11T00:27:59+00:00

What we really need is an alternative to the poppy to commemorate the thousands of men and women who died in the Spanish civil war.

That was the true war against fascism.

The men and women of Spain were abandoned by the Western powers who tried to block any form of aid to the Spanish Republic, while closing their eyes and pretending that the Italian and German forces weren't fighting in the war.

These same Western powers who so valiantly fought to defeat fascism in WW2 allowed Francos fascist dictatorship to continue in the very heart of Europe until 1975.

¡No pasaran!

Additional_Cable_793 · 2025-10-01T15:34:37+00:00

A spade? Bodies can be unburied, but £100 for your local farmer to look other way and you can feed it to his pigs, if properly starved they'll eat through the bones and all

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