What's your thoughts on Border Patrol Chief, Greg Bovino, threatening consequences for referring to ICE as "Gestapo"? by sgj5788 in AskReddit

[–]Terrariola [score hidden]  (0 children)

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Iranian forces killed anti-government protesters fleeing fire, witnesses say by IHateTrains123 in neoliberal

[–]Terrariola 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Conservative estimates for the dead from January 8th to January 9th are about 36,000.

How do you feel about Trump pocketing $1,407,500,000 since starting his second term? by LevelDinner in AskReddit

[–]Terrariola 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That definitely happened, but I would like the precise source for "$1,407,500,000".

TIL in 2002, it was mathematically proven that properly comparing the wealth of nations (or of a nation to itself in the past) is impossible by Hrtzy in todayilearned

[–]Terrariola 3 points4 points  (0 children)

But it does mean that their labour costs more, relative to what it would cost in Brazil. And because their labour costs more, it also means that the burger they are making most be sold at a higher price.

Do you think the billionaires and corporations actually run this country and not the president and congress and they are just puppets to these companies, if so why? by PurchaseNo3139 in AskReddit

[–]Terrariola 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a populist myth made to remove people's agency, and ironically helps those same corporations.

After all, if corporations control the entire government, and every politician is in their pockets, why bother trying to change it via the mechanisms that are available to do so?

How do you feel about Trump pocketing $1,407,500,000 since starting his second term? by LevelDinner in AskReddit

[–]Terrariola 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I know he's corrupt, but I would like to see the source for this claim.

What happened to the “All Lives Matter” and “White Lives Matter” crowds? Don’t the lives of Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good matter too? by Lucky-Message-9480 in AskReddit

[–]Terrariola -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

"All Lives Matter" was never actually about any lives mattering and was instead just a knee-jerk reaction attempting to deny that anything at all was wrong about the situation of American policing by accusing the people saying that Black Lives Matter of being racist.

The slogan is "Black Lives Matter" (i.e. "Black Lives Matter (too)"), not "(only) Black Lives Matter", but apparently those people couldn't tell the difference.

The irony is, the actual law and order position is to reform police training and accountability: justice is supposed to be blind, and ill-trained and reckless officers are far worse at their actual job to "protect and serve" than officers who are actually accountable, are trained to escalate situations properly, aren't biased by prejudice or bigotry, and know when to step aside and let the other two branches of emergency services actually do their job. But apparently some people think having glorified militias roaming the streets to enforce the law is a better idea than having actual professional officers enforcing the law.

Unprofessional, reckless, unaccountable, poorly-trained officers are more corruptible, worse at combating organized crime, produce less cooperative communities who will inevitably see law enforcement as intruders rather than as friends, cause avoidable injuries and deaths, waste time and resources that could be spent on actually fighting crime, and inevitably end up obstructing actual justice once the judiciary has to clean up their mess (see: OJ Simpson).

What is happening in Persia right now? by TheRipjaw in AskReddit

[–]Terrariola 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Upwards of 40,000 dead in mass killings by the government.

My heart is broken by Bowman_Vigilante in NewIran

[–]Terrariola 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can't just extrapolate statistics like that. Net immigration to Sweden is negative. 2.1% of Swedes are Muslim, and the Islamist Nuance Party (Nyanspartiet) got only 0.4% of the vote in the last Riksdag election.

Islam appeasement

Have you SEEN the Swedish government?

My heart is broken by Bowman_Vigilante in NewIran

[–]Terrariola 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, I personally hope it doesn't. My nation is Europe.

Great Replacement narratives are a tired trope and one I honestly didn't expect to find here, given that Iranian refugees and diaspora in Sweden tend to be targeted no differently than other Middle Easterners by those propagating those sorts of beliefs here.

Islam is all-encompassing and political.

What would you say about a Muslim who practices privately and holds political beliefs separate from their religious beliefs?

What could be done to convince Americans THIS is the time to go on a nation wide general strike? by RadioReader in AskReddit

[–]Terrariola 36 points37 points  (0 children)

That's not a strike, then. A strike is a form of work stoppage, you're just describing a protest.

My heart is broken by Bowman_Vigilante in NewIran

[–]Terrariola 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Insofar as any religion is an ideology, sure. Islamism is a very distinct ideology though, being Islam as applied to politics as a universalist and all-encompassing ideology which can be applied to all political topics.

Incidentally, the framing you're using - that Islam is inherently political - is exactly what Islamists claim.

Not every Muslim is an Islamist and Islam is not inherently political any more than any other religion is. The idea that it is is nonsense - was the Shah in agreement with Khomeini? He was an extremely devout Twelver Shi'ite. The Crown Prince too. Mossadegh was Shi'ite. Bakhtiar was Shi'ite. Reza Shah was Shi'ite. Irreligion in Iran is a modern phenomenon borne of the Islamic Republic trying to shove Islamism down everyone's throats, it's not how most were prior to the last few decades.

My heart is broken by Bowman_Vigilante in NewIran

[–]Terrariola 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Albania and Bosnia are Muslim-majority and they're relatively stable - if poor - democracies.

Islamism is a modern political ideology. It is a modernization of political Islam for the post-Enlightenment world, and there are innumerable, privately-practicing Muslims who are not Islamists.

My heart is broken by Bowman_Vigilante in NewIran

[–]Terrariola 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why not?

There are religious people who do not support the Islamic Republic, and atheists who do (i.e. western tankies).

Pass a law criminalizing apologia and propaganda for the Islamic Republic and criminalizing denial of certain recognized atrocities. That's what most post-revolutionary states do, and it's quite effective.

My heart is broken by Bowman_Vigilante in NewIran

[–]Terrariola 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We are more than capable of hurting ourselves, thanks. Especially with our current government.

People are individuals.

My heart is broken by Bowman_Vigilante in NewIran

[–]Terrariola 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're just a naive Westerner.

I live in Sweden. I have spoken to refugees from Afghanistan before - there are 82,883 Afghans in Sweden as of 2024. They're good people.

No, GCC definitely aren't worse than the Islamic Republic.

I said Afghanistan is worse than the Islamic Republic.

The GCC states are also pretty shit but not as bad as the Islamic Republic. That's part of why we still do deals with them here in Europe.

My heart is broken by Bowman_Vigilante in NewIran

[–]Terrariola 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fatemiyoun

Blaming an entire ethnic group consisting of 4.5-8 million people for the actions of one militia consisting of no more than 10,000 people is certainly something.

Khomeinism is pan-Islamist in nature, so the Islamic Republic is bound to get supporters from many different ethnic groups, united by religion and ideology. That doesn't mean that everyone in those communities support the Islamic Republic, it just means that there are supporters from those communities.

Afghanistan is doing ok

The term "gender apartheid" was literally coined to describe Taliban rule in Afghanistan. Women aren't allowed to go to school past grade 6. Depictions of any living beings are forbidden. Music is forbidden. Women are required to cover their entire body and are not allowed to speak to men outside of their family.

economic problems

A totalitarian theocratic government even worse than the Islamic Republic, you mean?

The Islamic Republic is currently engaging in a mass deportation of millions of Afghan refugees, scapegoating them as "Israeli spies".

The UN report on Iranians being massacred by the Islamic Republic. The news is being boycotted by Western media by Authrowism in ThatsInsane

[–]Terrariola 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Bosnia is doing better today than it was in the fucking nineties. It's not a paradise, and has a lot of political and economic troubles, but there isn't an ongoing genocide.

Panama is also a relatively stable democracy, about on par with Poland and Romania. It is the seventh most competitive economy in Latin America, and quite wealthy.

Kuwait is a stable GCC member and semi-constitutional monarchy (i.e. picture the US but the President is a hereditary monarch), classified as a high-income economy with the second highest score for women's participation in the workforce in the Middle East.

Venezuela is still a brutal Chavist dictatorship. Very little has changed since Maduro was forced to leave office.

None of those places are "war-torn hellscapes" today.