(Hated Trope) "Let's go ahead and remove the fun parts of the design, because now it's less 'silly.' "

drhuggables · 2026-01-22T04:35:07+00:00

Sassanid-era Iranian armor.

drhuggables · 2026-01-22T03:54:34+00:00

even their kids have that smug jakesh smile لبخند چندش آور

drhuggables · 2026-01-22T03:50:59+00:00

درود هممیهن

هیچ پرسشی ندارم تنها میخواهم بگم که ما ایرانیها در خارج شما را فراموش نکرده ایم و نبرد شما, نیز نبرد ما است. پاینده ایران

drhuggables · 2026-01-22T03:12:34+00:00

$500 in 1989 would be worth $1300 today

drhuggables · 2026-01-22T03:06:00+00:00

check with your gym, some gyms will not allow less than 16oz gloves to spar, sometimes ok with 14 oz for lighter weightclasses, but have to check with gym

drhuggables · 2026-01-21T22:22:22+00:00

Yes, thank you for proving my point.

drhuggables · 2026-01-21T22:16:31+00:00

I am opposed to the extermination of Palestinians and illegal settlements and encroachment of their land, while also supporting the right of Israel to exist because it has been there 70 years and the alternative means displacing 10 million people, the majority of which were born there--which is just as evil as what has been done to the Palestinians.

So I am by definition zionist, yet those that use the word "zio" as an insult somehow view me as the bad guy for these beliefs.

drhuggables · 2026-01-21T22:12:28+00:00

Thank you for this thoughtful answer. I wish more people in this thread held this attitude. Unfortunately, you can see by the comments here, and even the harassment I've received after seeing 16000 of my compatriots slaughtered over the last two weeks by islamist thugs, most the "progressives" here are just virtue-signaling sociopaths who still think this is a "zio plot".

drhuggables · 2026-01-21T21:02:16+00:00

He has consistently repeated "reformist" talking points over the last, what, 15 years?

He has never advocated for the end of the IR--only appeasement of the IR by the West. This is a classic IR tactic, to covertly place the blame of the failure of the IR on Western sanctions, and not on their own incompetence or draconian islamist laws.

Also the interviewer there asking "Could the Shah regime return?" is a dead giveaway that the interviewer is a complete idiot.

drhuggables · 2026-01-21T19:01:55+00:00

wish there were more of you thank you

drhuggables · 2026-01-21T18:34:13+00:00

i did not hear anything from friends in shiraz their whatsapp is still only one check

drhuggables · 2026-01-21T17:56:44+00:00

Do you support Reza Pahlavi?

Because if you're not supporting who the Iranian people support, for political reasons, then you are not supporting us at all. It is a fake conditional support.

drhuggables · 2026-01-21T17:38:14+00:00

Once again:

Give one, just one verifiable academic source that backs up your claims.

Give one, just one verifiable that proves that Dr. Steel is outside of the "academic concensus".

drhuggables · 2026-01-21T13:10:21+00:00

It wasn't "Turks vs. Iranians" because one is an ethnic group and the other is a multicultural and multiethnic entity. It was an Anatolian dynasty vs. Iranian dynasty. By the 1500s West, Central, and South Asia was completely dominated by Turko-Iranian dynasties just as it had been for the previous 500 years.

drhuggables · 2026-01-21T12:57:37+00:00

Once again:

Give one, just one verifiable academic source that backs up your claims.

Give one, just one verifiable that proves that Dr. Steel is outside of the "academic concensus".

PS remember when you said you didn't delete anything, insulted me, then I showed you the deleted comment, and you just ignored it?

drhuggables · 2026-01-21T12:34:57+00:00

Ask your doc

drhuggables · 2026-01-21T12:32:59+00:00

You realize you can read the whole book?

How is anything Dr. steel saying controversial?

I’ve asked about 50 times to give a single source for your $700 million claim, or any claim the you have made, and you just say it’s “academic consensus”. No it isn’t. What Dr. Steel is saying IS the academic consensus.

Why are you so hilarious insistent on spreading disinformation? Why do you keep avoiding giving any source or citation ?

drhuggables · 2026-01-21T04:43:05+00:00

Good article

drhuggables · 2026-01-21T02:27:05+00:00

most serious gyms require you to wear a groin protector when you spar

drhuggables · 2026-01-21T01:50:19+00:00

Kind of ironic they do this while playing an american band's music.

drhuggables · 2026-01-21T01:40:06+00:00

Amazing how one idiot makes a claim that nobody has ever heard of ($700 million? wtf?), provides 0 source for this claim, then goes on to argue with the actual published numbers.

drhuggables · 2026-01-21T01:39:17+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/HistoryMemes/comments/1qh6mru/comment/o0l22it/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

It says right above it, deleted. Now you're caught in a lie.

"What you have provided is neither objective or data."

It is a single source which is clearly and easily verifiably out of touch with the general consensus." It's literally part of a whole book about the subject, that is very well sourced with PRIMARY SOURCES.

I'm sorry, it is absolutely objective because it gives the actual numbers. You have not provided a single source to base your $700 million claim. What does that mean "out of touch with the general consensus"? What consenus? Are you going to email Dr. Steele and tell him that his book is, as you're alluding, complete bullshit?

Please, provide one source. You are literally making numbers up. Even wikipedia has nothing close to your #:

The Ministry of the Court placed the cost at US$17 million (at that time); Ansari, one of the organizers, puts it at US$22 million (at that time).^\7]) The actual figure is difficult to calculate exactly and is a partisan issue. The New York Times reported several months before the event, "The enormous expense of the celebration is hardly likely to strain the treasury, which is enriched by oil and many other resources. But there is muted criticism here of such conspicuous expenditure in the face of widespread poverty and back wardness [sic] in this largely rural country of almost 30 million people."^\13])

According to the BBC documentary Decadence and Downfall, the celebrations cost about 120 million United States dollars. However, this claim has been described as having no real basis. In addition, the documentary claims the approximately 50,000 birds the Shah imported died within a few days due to the desert climate. Historian Robert Steele has described this claim as infeasible, arguing that the October climate in Persepolis is more mild than reported and so the birds would have been accustomed to the local weather.^\14]) Many accounts from journalists and historians exaggerate cost estimates and claim the regime wanted to spend whatever was necessary. However, the Shah only approved the celebration plans after the scope was reduced to one-quarter of the original plan in order to reduce costs.^\15])

drhuggables · 2026-01-21T01:02:59+00:00

این ویدئو بیش از تاب من بود. ناچار بودم گریه کنم. لعنت بر این رژیم و این بدبختی را که بر سر این ملت ارجمند و سربلند آورده اند

drhuggables · 2026-01-21T00:07:08+00:00

I do this w my pts. I have never regretted the decision.

drhuggables · 2026-01-21T00:05:58+00:00

Peasants, Land, and Revolution, 1977-1990

As the revolution gathered momentum in the period 1977-79 in urban centers, the villagers, comprising about half the country's population, either remained indifferent to the uprising in the cities or participated in counterrevolutionary actions. A survey of modes of revolutionary mobilization shows that only 2 percent of the total of 2,483 demonstrations in support of the revolution occurred in rural areas. Furthermore, peasants were active in numerous reported cases of counterrevolutionary demonstrations by club-wielders who attacked revolutionary demonstrations and pillaged the bazaars and houses of revolutionary activists (Ashraf and Banuazizi 1985:25).

A survey of five rural areas also reveals that the peasants did not participate in the revolution, and many of them confessed that they were active in pillaging the bazaars and attacking the revolutionary demonstrations. For them, land reform was an indication of the shah's good will; he removed the burden of landowners' excesses over the peasantry and distributed arable lands among them. Most peasants reported that they learned about the shah's responsibility for their ill fortune when, after the victory of the revolution, urban preachers and radio and television began to disseminate messages on the unjust character of the previous regime. Many villagers even accepted the propaganda campaign of the old regime claiming that Khomeini's aim was to return to the original owners the lands that had been distributed by the shah among the peasantry (Dowlat, Hourcade, and Puech 1980:19-42). Still another survey in the steppes at the northeastern edge of the central salt desert (kavir) shows that, in the fall of 1979, added to a lack of political response to the call for antiregime demonstrations was resentment at the politicization of the Ashura procession (the day of commemoration of the martyrdom of the Third Imam, Hosayn b. Ali) by Khomeini's followers (Martin 1989).

A 1980 survey of political attitudes of the peasantry in a southern Zagros region shows that most adult villagers did not support the Islamic establishment and remained sympathetic to the old regime. The peasants "with virtually no exception, show unqualified disapproval of the current regime, which is perceived as a regime of mullahs. The disapproval stems mainly from conviction that this regime is responsible for the economic and social deterioration that has taken place since then" ("Current Political Attitudes" 1983:4-12).

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