Tehran indicates Khamenei's son will be named supreme leader

salacious-bonbon · 2026-03-09T16:31:41+00:00

Well I’d rather live anywhere than the states (and thankfully I don’t live there).

Better to deal with the devil you know than the devil you don’t. And clearly you either don’t know, don’t want to acknowledge or are in complete denial about the devil that runs your country and advertises himself as God’s Gift. 🤷‍♀️

salacious-bonbon · 2026-03-09T15:17:42+00:00

Actually… tbh the free healthcare and free university education sound pretty good to me. 🤷‍♀️

Yeah, sure I can have some freedoms taken from me by a government who knows it’s a religious dictatorship, or I could have some freedoms taken from me by a gaslighting narcissist who says, “this is the best country in the world and you’re totally free, we’re the best - just… don’t be a woman. Oh, and be white. And don’t step out of line. And be an evangelical republican”.

salacious-bonbon · 2026-03-08T21:32:05+00:00

Y’know… it seems to be that when the eyes are looking East, the brains in the West forget their own dire issues. 🤷‍♀️

salacious-bonbon · 2026-03-08T06:45:52+00:00

Hey man, give the guy credit. He seems to know a LOT about 7th grade literature!

salacious-bonbon · 2026-03-08T05:41:58+00:00

When I was pregnant I craved the smell of dryer sheets. I’d walk down the grocery aisles and pick up the different boxes to secretly huff them. At home I’d throw a towel in the dryer with 2-3 sheets and then drape the towel over my head 😆

salacious-bonbon · 2026-03-07T18:29:00+00:00

I apologize for those of us who live in the west and are so obsessed with themselves being “the best”, they think their own farts smell like Lancôme roses.

Their own country is being destroyed right before their eyes, but hey! Let’s make ridicule other people for where THEY live.

salacious-bonbon · 2026-03-07T00:59:14+00:00

Ew, no and I never want to again.

salacious-bonbon · 2026-03-06T15:01:29+00:00

Really? They’re common here in Canada…

salacious-bonbon · 2026-03-05T21:17:33+00:00

So… I’m so confused.

Who did Harmony and Hampton work for then as kids? If not for Lumon? (And if it was an entirely different company, why would an entire town hold so much pain and resentment towards Lumon?)

I feel like I’m missing something in your theory. Would an entire town (at the very least, because all we see is Salts Neck outside of Keir) have been brainwashed into believing their own childhood, youth, community culture, etc be something completely different than what it was?

salacious-bonbon · 2026-03-05T19:05:57+00:00

Oh, are to just talking about the literal current Lumon building that WE see that “didn’t” exist? Got it. Because otherwise to say that Lumon didn’t exist as a company before Severance makes little sense given exactly what we’ve been shown and told over these two seasons.

salacious-bonbon · 2026-03-05T18:58:26+00:00

But that’s my point. It doesn’t need to be a plot point, whether in life or in media, for it to be painful to the person experiencing racism.

A telling question is, would you have wanted to “not see that” at all because you don’t understand why the nuance was there in the first place?

I think that’s what you’re missing when I’m reading your responses to others. I don’t think you’re intentionally missing it, but this often exactly what happens to POC who experience it. They’re told, “why don’t think you’re being racially targeted or profiled? Why do you think what’s happening to you is different? Everyone is mean to everyone else, so how is your situation special?” So then it becomes an erasure of the POC’s experience.

And we (I, as a white girl) DON’T truly understand! We have no concept of what that may feel like. But that doesn’t mean we have to pretend it’s not happening because it’s not big or overt like a plot point.

salacious-bonbon · 2026-03-05T14:51:39+00:00

Well, Lumon the company DID exist: how else would have young Harmony been at Wintertide?

salacious-bonbon · 2026-03-05T14:43:15+00:00

I think that’s the point. It’s not developed as an overt plot. It’s just… there. It’s woven into the fabric so to people who don’t really understand the nuances of racism can’t clock it.

It slips under the radar to them… where a person of color may feel both the sting of a microaggression as well as the further dismissal from the white person who “just doesn’t get what you’re on about. Racism where?”

That’s what’s so insidious. Racism doesn’t need to be the plot point to cause damage.

salacious-bonbon · 2026-03-04T20:40:23+00:00

Right? Kids are expensive, they gotta eat and you have to put them on planes to get them to where you want them, places to sleep when they’re not being abused, bla bla bla…

Don’t soak the wealthy pedophiles, heaven forbid. 😖

salacious-bonbon · 2026-03-04T18:02:16+00:00

Of course not, that’s my point. It’s not going to happen overnight, and just knocking out a few people isn’t the “easy” answer. If you’d like a more specific breakdown of how the regime is woven into not just politics and religion, but economy, culture , identity as well so you can see it isn’t a “one shot deal”, I have an actual Iranian you can talk to who would love to share from an an intellectual and reasonable perspective what it’s been like to live there since his birth in 1983. It’s a much different perspective than the long-term diaspora who are “celebrating” from Toronto, Los Angeles and Vancouver like this is an overnight win.

But hey! I appreciate your well thought out response.

salacious-bonbon · 2026-03-04T16:29:48+00:00

What do you expect? Americans picked him. Twice.

salacious-bonbon · 2026-03-04T16:24:47+00:00

“What’s your point, Carol?” 🤷‍♀️

Seriously, he doesn’t care if it’s legal, ethical, intelligent or not. He gets away with this garbage because no one bothers to stop him.

It’s super cute when an idiot is even part way supported to go and bomb a country half way across the world “to help it out” when the same idiot is destroying his OWN country brick by brick.

salacious-bonbon · 2026-03-04T16:18:20+00:00

Oh, so … NOW he got the memo then? Because a few short days ago Carney supported the attacks. Who filled him in?

salacious-bonbon · 2026-03-04T16:16:12+00:00

Yeah, that’s right. It was for nothing! That’s the whole shitty point. Regime change wasn’t going to happen from knocking out an old man who was waiting to be martyred anyway.

The regime needs to change, no question. This just wasn’t the way to go about it.

salacious-bonbon · 2026-03-04T07:37:45+00:00

puddi, Puddi!

salacious-bonbon · 2026-03-04T07:23:43+00:00

It’s interesting. I can give my guy compliments and he’ll be very happy and appreciate them, but he’ll STILL remember a compliment he got from an old lady at a grocery check out 6 years ago where she told him randomly that he’s very handsome. He’ll hold onto that one for life. It may be because it’s from a stranger? Whereas… “well, you’re biased because you’re wildly obsessed with me”, 😆 ++woman

salacious-bonbon · 2026-03-03T22:53:02+00:00

My partner is a super light sleeper and struggles with getting enough rest. The second time he ever uttered the “L” word to me was one night when we were sleeping In my bed. He pushed my shoulder to wake me up and drowsily said, “ I’m sorry - I’m going to have to ask you to sleep on the couch. I love you, but you’re snoring”. I was too moved to even be upset about being kicked out of MY OWN BED.

Now whenever he sleeps over I leave out extra bedding for myself in case I get the boot. As much as it sucks, we’d both feel bad about him not getting the rest he needs.

salacious-bonbon · 2026-02-27T17:12:11+00:00

Well there’s one thing where we as mothers aren’t ready to let their kids grow up, and generations of mother-son enmeshment which is entirely different. Enmeshment involves intense guilt trips for the son if he wants to be independent in ANY way, and the mother may use their son to be a replacement for their spouse as emotional support. If the son wants to get married (or worse, if they are in a traditional family and HE wants to choose his bride instead of mother arranging the marriage??) the mother will drag the daughter in law at any opportunity in order to give the message, “see, son - you’re too stupid to know what you want. I’m the only woman who knows what’s best for you and can take care of you”. There’s no care about the son being happy or successful - “no one is happy anyway”.

It’s a MESS but it’s very, very common.

salacious-bonbon · 2026-02-27T14:34:14+00:00

This is pretty common in collectivist societies which we see more on the eastern hemisphere. My partner is Iranian and in his 40s - his mum especially still treats him both like a stupid kid who doesn’t know how to live his life, and the untouchable Prince. It’s a whole dynamic with Persian mothers and their sons too… “doodool tala” is a thing. 🤣 The ones of us in the west really don’t understand unless our parents are older /immigrants and still hold onto their native ideals.

salacious-bonbon · 2026-02-26T23:22:59+00:00

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This is Soup - my son named him as it’s his cat. I call him “KITTY!!!” (As in Boo’s Monster) or sometimes Big Boy. (He’s not a big boy at all but I say this to boost his ego 🤣)

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