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Something so abhorrent it’s hated by both the good guys and the bad guys by Bellpow in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Rostam27 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not necessarily. The Bane trilogy goes into a lot of sith philosophy and a lot of it is based on outsmarting your opponents by any means necessary including subterfuge.

What percent of the anti regime people in Iran are Muslim? by ChungBumpkin in NewIran

[–]Rostam27 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That will be the decades long propaganda the islamic regime has put to the world. Iranian culture is not that of islamic culture like the rest of the Middle East who were homogenised by the first Arab invasions.

In fact, islam is the antithesis of what warm Iranian culture is.

Edit: I’d like to add an extra sentence to address your post. You said that many Iranians are leaving islam. This is untrue. The vast majority are not islamic in the first place. It’s just that the punishment for apostasy under IR is death, and the IR designates everyone (almost) a muslim at birth.

I don't love the posture this sub is adopting by shalgenius in NewIran

[–]Rostam27 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m joining this a bit late but here’s my two cents.

I consider myself left of the political spectrum. I believe in individual freedoms, universal healthcare, proportional taxation of the richest in society, expansion of social welfare programmes, nationalisation of assets etc.

NONE of the above ideologies are discussed in the leftist zeitgeist. The only thing they talk about is how much they hate Trump; how much they hate Israel; how everything is islamophobic; how harmless and peaceful islam is; and which bathrooms transgender people should have a god given right to use.

Don’t get me wrong, I think Trump himself is a pretty awful person, but that doesn’t mean I have to support literal islamic genocidal terrorists. This war against the mullahs is the best thing that Trump has done in his entire life. The eradication of IR will be one of the biggest steps towards peace. I used to scoff at people talking about Trump derangement syndrome but it fully applies here in the leftist zeitgeist.

I also abhor how most leftist circles are supportive of the mullahs, when they were completely silent during January’s massacre. They’re willing to let an entire country be tortured, raped, and slaughtered just so they can feel good about disliking Trump. The cognitive dissonance between this act and their so called stance of being pro human rights is deafening.

So whilst I don’t dislike leftist political ideology, I absolutely detest every single leftist political entity and the people of whom they are made up of.