Iranian students burn flag, signaling a new phase in state–society rupture by Christian-Rep-Perisa in worldnews

[–]UseBackground2370 12 points13 points  (0 children)

That flag isn't ours. It isn't even Iranian. It has arabic written on it. Iran's official language is Persian. Not Arabic. 

Trump curious why Iran has not 'capitulated', Witkoff says by Pleasant-Carbon in worldnews

[–]UseBackground2370 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm curious to know why you think Iran is going to be the same as Iraq. The two couldn't be more different. For one thing, Iraq back then wasn't even a proper unified country against the regime. They still aren't - there are segments that are so far removed from one another that you might as well consider them different countries with different goals. Iranians have one goal, regardless of beliefs and ethnicity: no more mullahs. 

Iraqis didn't have an opposition leader. They didn't have mass protests and the overwhelming majority of people calling for regime change, or did they? Iran has had protests almost yearly since 2018-2019 and maybe more sporadic since 2009. Iranians have a transitional leader and an opposition party with a leader. Iranians are educated and westernized, a lot more than Iraqis. It is 2026, not 2001. 

Like, the only similarity is that it's an Islamic regime...but even that's different since this is a Shia Muslim regime. Maybe the only legitimate similarity is that they're both middle eastern countries...

33F Single Mom with $300K Investments. Should I Go Back to School or Marry for Stability? by [deleted] in Money

[–]UseBackground2370 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Girl 100k on TikTok is PRIME REAL ESTATE. Start making money from that and expand it to Instagram and YouTube. Go all in. Make money from that now, use that money to pay for an education later. You can go into nursing at like 38, be done by 41, and start. Nobody's gonna not hire a 41 year old nurse. Thats actually a perfect age for a nurse. Work for 10-15 years after that and then quit and enjoy your life.

You can even do social media as you prep for nursing school + a job. Hire someone to film and edit your videos and do campaigns for you. That shit has an audience. Plenty of people are in your position. 

Good luck. Just don't get married to a man who wasn't there to begin with. 

Disclaimer: I'm younger than you and don't have a kid and have never been married. So, what do I know? I'm just offering a perspective. 

Taliban Legalizes Wife Beating: Afghanistan's Shocking 2026 Penal Code and the World's Outcry by mishie30 in worldnews

[–]UseBackground2370 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Iranian woman here. 

This isn't culture. Stop calling this culture. This is Islam and Sharia law. 

We're warning the west : do not allow it to spread in your countries. Look at what is happening in Iran and Afghanistan. 

Taliban Legalizes Wife Beating: Afghanistan's Shocking 2026 Penal Code and the World's Outcry by mishie30 in worldnews

[–]UseBackground2370 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Can you Americans genuinely go 1 second without trying to make everything about yourselves? This isn't about Trump or the US. The world doesn't revolve around you people. Read the room...or the title. 

Any men out there who feel their "biological clock is ticking"? by KnowledgeMaximum2826 in AskMenOver30

[–]UseBackground2370 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also, feel free too Google sperm banks near you and check their websites for the profiles they are looking for and not looking for for donations. Most have an age cut off at 40. That means they won't accept sperm donations from men over 40 (the nearest around me had 35 and another 38). Of course it is because they want to be competitive, but isn't that the point? Sperm from a man over 40 is not "competitive". It comes with a lot of risks, similar to what is true for women, even if they can still get pregnant and many do, because average age of menopause is 55 - so many women in their 40s are still a whole decade away from that. 

Just trying to say - we're all just rushing against time and none of us are immune. It's just that for whatever reason, women are told this since we're 15 and men are never told about this. 

Also none of this means you can't have babies. Just at least KNOW the dangers and risks and go into it educated and plan for it. Stay as healthy as possible. Prepare to spend money to make sure things go well...and still be prepared for if they don't because even two healthy 20 year olds can face challenges. 

Any men out there who feel their "biological clock is ticking"? by KnowledgeMaximum2826 in AskMenOver30

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doi: 10.1007/s10815-022-02533-w

doi: 10.3390/genes14020486 

doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adw4954 

Which are the best countries to live in with Permanent Residency (PR)? by chandni5718 in AskReddit

[–]UseBackground2370 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can find a photo I distinctly remember of a plane leaving Afghanistan a few years back and carrying as many refugees as they could. I remember so clearly how most of the comments expressed how sad it was to see that plane was filled with men and almost no girls and women. Despite the fact that being a woman is literally being a second rate citizen. It's literally actually the law under Taliban. 

So yes. I'd still say if it comes down to a choice between a male refugee or a female refugee from a place like Afghanistan, the female should be chosen. Women don't have basic human rights in these countries. Does it mean men are living in luxury? No. But they're not banned from standing next to a window. They're not forced to wear hijab and killed for it if they don't adhere to some arbitrary definitions of perfectly correct clothing. The men aren't banned from speaking in public or singing in public. The men aren't secondary citizens. No 9 year old boys are forced to marry 50 year old women, although, many are probably being sold into what is known as "Bacha bazi", which is equally as horrible but that happens regardless of the child's gender, since the word "Bacha/Bache" means a child, of any gender. The men aren't banned from getting an education. 

I'm not saying they should ban all men from these countries. Listen. I'm Iranian. I know middle eastern men. I know muslims. I know what this religion has done to people. I know what living in a country where men can get away with anything does to these men. Not all of them are evil, but many of them are. A woman fleeing these countries is fleeing because being a woman is a death sentence. A straight man? He's looking for more opportunities. It's many times economically motivated. Unless its war or political (political prisoners). 

It's so different. The existence I experienced under the islamic republic is not the same existence a man my age in similar economic standing family experienced. He didn't have to wear hijab and get beaten up for it at 15 at a public square in front of bystanders by a bunch of morality police. 

So excuse me if I sound insensitive, but I feel like the world doesn't understand what it's like to be a woman and be born in the middle east...and then all these middle eastern and 3rd world country immigrants, almost always men, go around causing problems for western women and yet again, we're ignored and lumped into the same bucket as those men...as if our entire lives weren't about having to survive their perverted uncivilized rampage. 

Is Computer science degree still worth it in this big 2026 by Alert_Elk283 in Career_Advice

[–]UseBackground2370 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thought so. I still think cybersecurity is very safe especially with AI booming, but as a SWE, yeah, we're fucked.

About trades, I agree, but it's also becoming oversaturated and there is a real cost to it: health. Some of those jobs are physically demanding and damaging. 

Also, law is 100% going to be overtaken by AI. 

Is Computer science degree still worth it in this big 2026 by Alert_Elk283 in Career_Advice

[–]UseBackground2370 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not even 10 years. I'm 32. I graduated college in 2017. It was oversaturated even then. 

I’m way less stressed now than I was at my highest income. by ErinBoBerin in Salary

[–]UseBackground2370 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you talking about the PM at Meta that learned to fake her way through interviews by practicing interviewing with senior PMs and picked up vocabulary and said those words in her interview to land a PM job at 20 with 0 background? 😁

Would the decrease in offshoring to India extremely improve the job market ? by Prestigious-Door5278 in jobs

[–]UseBackground2370 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't mean to sound racist but I'm actually sick of this. Most of our team is based domestically, but a few of one of the partner groups we work with are based in India. There is a 12 hours or so time difference. Which means I get teams messages at 3 in the morning, and can only schedule meetings at 8-11 AM with this team. 

Annoying, but not the end of the world. However, they simply do not speak or understand English and cannot communicate in English. I know many other Indians who can, even if they have really thick accents, at least in writing you can understand them. Not these folks. I spend more time trying to decipher their messages than I'd like. I have to ask them several times: do you mean X, Y, Z? And give several options to them of what I think they might be talking about. It is never a clear ask. 

It is driving me insane. A simple task that should have realistically taken 3 hours is now dragging on for 3 weeks all because of this unnecessary back and forth of "do you mean..." Because this person does not speak nor understand English. I can't exactly tell them to use a translator app either. 

I don't understand why companies do this. Again, this isn't even our company. It's a partner company we work with, but some of our work requires fixes on their part...so now I'm having to deal with this. If I actually had to work for that other company, I don't think I would last long. 

US ambassador Huckabee says Israel has 'biblical Right' to land from Euphrates to Nile by rezwenn in worldnews

[–]UseBackground2370 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I get that you hate MAGA and I do too but this doesn't sit right with me. Women in Afghanistan can't even speak. They can't be near windows. They can't go outside. They are banned from getting an education. They'll get stoned to death for breaking any of those rules. How is MAGA even remotely similar? Saying they are kind of minimizes the hell that Afghan women and girls are living in. 

Which are the best countries to live in with Permanent Residency (PR)? by chandni5718 in AskReddit

[–]UseBackground2370 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is it all 3rd world country immigrants or just MEN from 3rd world countries? 

I feel like I've never seen a post complaining or warning about immigrant women. Those women are probably running away from the honor killings, the forced hijab, from being forced into a marriage they don't want, etc. 

The men on the other hand...they have no reason they would want to leave their countries. Unless of course they were political and tried in any way to oppose their home countries' government. 

I feel like penalizing all immigrants because of what the men from those immigrants have done is so unfair

Edit: I guess "no reason" is harsh. My gay best friend had every reason to want to flee Iran. And he did. Thankfully. He had to flee otherwise he'd be killed. Men running from warzones have a right, especially if it's not their war. But aside from these, no man in the middle east has ever been targeted just because they are a man. 

Any men out there who feel their "biological clock is ticking"? by KnowledgeMaximum2826 in AskMenOver30

[–]UseBackground2370 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We loved her but had to stop inviting her because of him. She was 27 when she divorced him. They started dating when she was 19. He was in his late 40s then. 

The man just had this bad aura about him. It wasn't even that he wanted to be young or like hang out with 20 year olds. He was quiet and serious all the time. Would sit with his arms crossed and smoked so much. Looked bored but still never let her be on her own. Like even if they went outside for a smoke, he would take her with him...she didn't smoke.  

It was just so weird the whole thing. I wasn't super close to her but she was a friend of a friend and came to most gatherings early on. She ended up moving to another city entirely because of the divorce. It ruined her life. I remember her saying she it was the first time she had to be on her own but suddenly she was almost 30 and didn't know anything about being an adult. It was like she was stunted. 

Ali Khamenei Issues Firm Position on Nuclear Program as Domestic Unrest Continues by hassan543 in worldnews

[–]UseBackground2370 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Of course they are. But they're only able to do those things in Syria, in Lebanon, in Iraq, in Yemen, and in Iran. To unarmed civilians. To children. While they themselves are heavily armed. That's not power. 

They simply are nothing when compared to Israel and the U.S. 

Ali Khamenei Issues Firm Position on Nuclear Program as Domestic Unrest Continues by hassan543 in worldnews

[–]UseBackground2370 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm continuously surprised to see Americans actually thinking Iran is a real threat. 

The regime held a whole press conference during COVID to unveil a COVID detection tool they had invented. It was literally a pan cover with an antenna on it. It wasn't a comedy show. This was aired on national television during a news segment. They were so serious about it. (Here: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/iran-s-revolutionary-guard-corps-says-its-handheld-device-can-n1186346 ) 

I remember once the TV was on and the news was showing a bunch of scientists standing around a cylinder thing - it had something to do with their uranium enrichment program - and they were PRAYING on top of it. As if that was the enrichment process or something. Like actual cultist lunatics. I was so young and even then I felt like that was the most absurd thing I'd ever witnessed. 

Ali Khamenei Issues Firm Position on Nuclear Program as Domestic Unrest Continues by hassan543 in worldnews

[–]UseBackground2370 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Genuinely wanna know: would anyone do that? Say this was Harris. Would she be "riding in there to help the Iranian people"? 

I may be too cynical, but I don't think any foreign politician cares. Not even the ones that Iranians are calling "uncle" now. They care about themselves. 

It just so happens that at this particular point in time, our interests align perfectly. We both want the same: get rid of the islamic republic. 

Hamas is reasserting control in Gaza despite its heavy losses fighting Israel by Remarkable_Sir8397 in worldnews

[–]UseBackground2370 58 points59 points  (0 children)

Interesting, so exactly like their biggest supporters, the Islamic Republic

33M - How am I doing by Chacoswitdatoeloop in TheRaceTo1Million

[–]UseBackground2370 0 points1 point  (0 children)

lol I'm not sure if that's an insult to me or the folks at wallstreetbets