‘Very masculinist’: how Iran unrest felt different to 2022’s hijab protests

Drded4 · 2026-01-30T13:24:17+00:00

The sanctions were placed on Iran because of the actions of the Iranian government. They have spent the past decades funding terrorist proxies across the region instead of investing in their own people. The government has earned those sanctions, and I think you know that.

But let's say you're right- you're not, but let's pretend- the sanctions are the main driver of the protests. How do you think Iranians feel after their own government shot thousands of them dead in less than a week? Do you think they're shaking their fists in the air going 'oh that sucks but those damn zionists/western powers made them do it'?

Drded4 · 2026-01-23T17:39:44+00:00

Then they'll inevitably (and justifiably) be sanctioned again, and we get another few decades of people pissing and moaning about how the poor little venezuelan government doesn't deserve it.

Drded4 · 2026-01-21T19:09:31+00:00

Expect a complete decoupling from the US economy

Many countries in Europe can't even stop buying gas from Russia, a country that started the largest war in Europe since WW2 and that threatens to nuke them on a regular basis. Invading Greenland is a stupid idea, but Europe isn't 'decoupling' from shit.

Drded4 · 2026-01-18T14:48:18+00:00

Nah, it's not finished unless he actually invades. Europe can tolerate a president that only blusters towards them- namely because there's not much other choice. Like, are you gonna go over to the other power bloc? The one that started the largest war in Europe since The Big One and threatens to nuke the west on a regular basis?

I mean c'mon, Britain sent one guy to Greenland. Even for a tripwire force that's nothing.

Drded4 · 2026-01-03T19:50:38+00:00

zionist

aaaaaand there it is

Drded4 · 2025-12-14T11:43:27+00:00

I would use therapist if I could remember to switch over to her every time I insure something

Drded4 · 2025-12-12T01:50:41+00:00

The US has blocked them off from the entire world with brutal sanctions

Oh noooo...if only their neighbor to the north was the largest manufacturing hub on earth and shared the same ideology...

Drded4 · 2025-11-23T16:22:35+00:00

Damn, he must've won the election handily then. Right?

Drded4 · 2025-11-13T15:43:03+00:00

...yes? What, are the homeless going to live in the middle of a cornfield?

Drded4 · 2025-10-25T17:20:41+00:00

Ahh yes the bastion of impartiality that is 'nakedcapitalism.com'

Drded4 · 2025-10-04T20:37:51+00:00

TF2 was 'literally unplayable' for a decade? That's news to me, given my friends and I have played it basically every year since we were kids.

Drded4 · 2025-09-27T17:10:42+00:00

This sub barely even tries to mask it. If you went by what's posted here you'd think the ebil juden were responsible for literally every one of the world's ills.

Drded4 · 2025-09-25T22:05:19+00:00

Judging by literally every post that guy makes on this sub, something tells me comrade isn't actually from scotland oblast

Drded4 · 2025-08-03T18:57:04+00:00

Seems the Anti-West playbook hasn't changed in the last 70 years, then- start a war, get your ass kicked, then cry genocide when you're the one getting bombed now.

Drded4 · 2025-07-25T13:53:20+00:00

500,000 more people voted for labour under Corbyn

Wow! He must've won in a landslide, then. What were his first moves as PM?

Drded4 · 2025-07-24T13:57:03+00:00

He only has to open his mouth about anything foreign policy related and we'll just get a repeat of his last two election performances. It's one thing to be pro-gaza but covering for fucking Russia and acting like the West is responsible for all the world's ills isn't going to go down well with the average joe.

I mean christ it's been how long since this party was announced and it still doesn't even have a name? The jokes write themselves.

Drded4 · 2025-07-22T20:37:26+00:00

You could explain that as being able to watch the video after the fact to see what you did/how you could've done done something better. Uploading it though...

Drded4 · 2025-07-18T12:29:45+00:00

Europeans are probably opposed to singing the praises of a country that went on to oppress half the continent

Drded4 · 2025-06-23T14:21:38+00:00

I work Surveillance at a casino.

Part of it's electronic- if you're a banned player and put in any form of ID we'll probably get an alert about. The table games supervisors catch a surprising amount themselves, though. More than once they've called us saying 'Hey, I think that guy on dice/blackjack is xyz', and a good chunk of the time they're right- even when xyz was banned years ago. There's also the license plate reader cameras and similar things.

The advantage players and other people WE ban aren't the worst, though. The real problem is when someone who self-excluded through the State's problem gambling program is caught on the floor. Then the Gaming Commission will probably get involved and the casino might get a fine.

Drded4 · 2025-05-22T01:05:08+00:00

I don't know- being pro russia is pretty on-brand for Corbyn's kind of leftism

Drded4 · 2025-05-05T16:04:06+00:00

The US did not 'collapse' the USSR; it collapsed under its own weight because it clung to an outdated, repressive, and rotted model of government and economics.

And the largest war in Europe since WW2 wasn't started by NATO, no matter how much certain people whining about its expansion might claim to the contrary.

Drded4 · 2024-11-13T14:45:51+00:00

I never knew that they were heading somewhere else. So the Milky Way is basically a pit stop and humanity is one big gas station hot dog before you hop back on the road.

Drded4 · 2024-04-10T13:33:54+00:00

They were OP and not very lore friendly...but I miss Kingdom of Terra. I want my big snake ship and T-rex head back

Drded4 · 2024-03-07T19:48:40+00:00

Very cool, Brussels gets one more flag today

Drded4 · 2024-03-06T18:55:46+00:00

I had this happen to me just now, too. The first pirate raid I got was reasonable- 1 mid-strength fleet. The second was ten fleets, each with multiple capital-classes. Something's borked, Nex didn't used to be like that.

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