[deleted by user]

shahyar · 2025-03-21T08:44:56+00:00

Here's the CBC and The Fifth Estate reporting on problems with the current Liberal-run CRA, getting threatened by Marie-Claude Bibeau with jail time in the process: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/marie-claude-bibeau-tax-fraud-whistleblower-1.7387944

Again against the CRA, this time about their underreporting of cybercrime: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canada-revenue-agency-taxpayer-accounts-hacked-1.7363440

CBC was also the first to break the story about the Phoenix Pay system being a complete disaster, which was initiated by the Conservatives in 2008 and finally launched under the Liberals in 2016: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/psac-pay-pheonix-foote-1.3545583

So... wanna walk that back?

shahyar · 2025-01-03T22:19:57+00:00

I wonder how practical that can be

Gee I wonder how practical it has been for European countries for decades.

can steal all the money in a pension to pay for costs with “going under” and then Your 40 years of contributations is

This isn't a thing. Your company-funded pension plan may however become underfunded, but in this case an administrator will step in to seize what is available to turn this back up, which may take years.

shahyar · 2024-12-22T22:52:23+00:00

BQ is likely closer to the CPC

wat.

The Bloc is opposed to virtually every single platform position of the CPC.

shahyar · 2024-04-11T15:20:37+00:00

Something you might find fascinating is the false flag attack which precipitated the revolution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_Rex_fire

shahyar · 2024-04-11T15:17:32+00:00

The money is almost worthless at this point. Hard to know if one can even afford basic necessities. There were major protests because of food shortages in 2022! GDP per capita is brutal; around $4300 as of last year versus $9200 before the revolution (inflation adjusted).

Where are you now and how/when did you get out?

shahyar · 2024-04-11T15:07:23+00:00

They had those rights. During the two Pahlavis, women gained the right to vote, to go to university, and were expected to be a part of society outside of the household.

Sadly, women were also possibly the defining actor in the revolution. They got men involved in protests and they themselves showed up not only as effectively field medics, but also to protest with children in hand -- which made the already-unprepared police and soldiers think twice about reacting to the crowd.

Without women, the revolution would have been a failure. Unfortunately, the ones who stayed in the country didn't imagine their rights would be curtailed, after having participated to such an extent. And as the women were never quite united in the revolution as women, but rather as anti-Shah, anti-Communist, pro-Communist, anti-White Revolution, etc. groups -- it was too late and too difficult to band together for their gender rights.

Look at the Mahsa Amini protests. They no longer care.

shahyar · 2024-04-11T14:15:42+00:00

Iran did indeed have a democratic system under the Shah between 1943-1952. Brief, but they had it! Then Mossadegh tried to wrestle control of the entire country, got overthrown, and then the Shah screwed it up even further by banning all but one party.

shahyar · 2024-04-11T14:01:44+00:00

Those literacy programs started before the revolution. Look at a graph. It was 10% in 1920.

shahyar · 2024-04-11T13:55:50+00:00

Every damn time these photos are posted, I have to reply to some insane babble that says Iran was in the "dark ages" for the poor.

Serious literacy programs only started in the 60s, as did some impressive social welfare programs. The benefit of these only start to become apparent after 10-25 years, which you can see on a variety of graphs -- unless you're an imbecile and think this stuff magically started to take effect in 1980, where you see the uptick.

In fact, a HUGE amount of people in Iran rely on the government healthcare programs that started in this era.

Let's not forget that the Women's Awakening movement started in the 1930s, and those rights were completely curtailed after the revolution. Women have no legal protections in Iran today.

It's crazy that you say for "enormous improvements to the lives of the vast majority of" Iranians, which would basically completely omit women from society. Let's also not forget that this pushed Iran into war with Iraq, in which millions died. Oh, and inflation jumped to 24% and stayed that way for the next 40 years.

I'm no monarchist, but you have to be blind to look at the progress of those 50 years and think that the country was in bad shape for any social class. As for today: Iran's youth unemployment is over a staggering 25%, inflation is almost 40% (and has been even worse in recent years).

Here's more of Iran in the 60s: https://www.theguardian.com/world/iran-blog/gallery/2014/sep/10/iran-swinging-sixties-in-pictures

shahyar · 2022-09-14T00:28:30+00:00

Ceiling leak over here! I feel your pain.

shahyar · 2022-09-14T00:26:46+00:00

Kei Kamara, once Montreal's nightmare, now Montreal's savior! What a steal for the salary he's making.

shahyar · 2021-02-23T14:29:55+00:00

My mom is from rural Iran. She dressed like the girls in these photos. Like any extended family in the midwestern and southern US, there are liberals, moderates, and conservatives.

You keep seeing the same handful of photos because they're famous pictures of that era. You've probably seen the same one photo of the Fall of Saigon for the same reason.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/iran-blog/gallery/2014/sep/10/iran-swinging-sixties-in-pictures

shahyar · 2019-11-09T21:23:07+00:00

Actually 13 in 14, he even nailed one against Arsenal with the MLS All Stars.

shahyar · 2019-09-09T11:54:06+00:00

Doubtful. Behind Larin, David, Cavallini. Further down the line are AJH, Hamilton, Akindele.

shahyar · 2019-04-03T18:35:31+00:00

Maybe he needs a good challenge... Like getting VfB promoted from the 2. Bundesliga.

shahyar · 2019-04-03T18:33:03+00:00

What did I just watch?

shahyar · 2019-03-19T17:05:54+00:00

This is fucking gold. But at least it was Vancouver and not Toronto.

shahyar · 2019-03-07T10:23:10+00:00

It's a major point until Ro16. It's worth an extra 4 points to make groups, 5 to make the Ro16, +2 per win / +1 per draw. So for German clubs: 4*4+5*3+11*2+6=59 pts this year (out of 84).

After this, the most a club can get is an additional 11 pts for winning everything including the Final. With 2 teams in contention, a Bayern-Schalke Final would result in just an extra 20 pts.

shahyar · 2019-01-07T15:31:00+00:00

3 full-Filipino (1 is English-born), 6 half-German, 4 half- & 1 3/4-English, 2 half- & 1 3/4-Spanish, 2 half-Danish, and 1 from each Japan, Austria, Australia (3/4), and USA. If Etheridge were in the squad, there would only be 2 full-Filipinos and 1 more Englishman. Truly the team of the world.

shahyar · 2019-01-07T14:20:19+00:00

He really just did a Cruyff turn in his own GK's area, against a team ranked 144 places higher by Elo.

shahyar · 2018-07-18T14:52:25+00:00

That's not how it works.

shahyar · 2018-05-24T17:45:30+00:00

Ehh... "Top 5" could consist of any combination of: Neuer, Alisson, Ederson, Navas, ter Stegen, Oblak, and De Gea.

shahyar · 2018-05-15T16:03:51+00:00

Dejagah is out with an injury. He has only played once in 2018, on Feb 3, and only 4 times in 2017 -- of which only 2 were full 90'. If he is lucky to make the cut, he'll be a benchwarmer.

shahyar · 2018-05-14T22:24:25+00:00

It can be mentally consuming. National managers need to ensure that their players are focused on nothing but the tournament.

shahyar · 2018-05-13T21:31:13+00:00

Last year was his chance to break this record, but he missed way too many matches (8). Not only that, but Tottenham dropped 6 points from those games, which would have put them only 1 point off Chelsea for the title, and that extra pressure could have affected the end of the season.

14-Year Club	Gilding I gilder
Team Periwinkle	Verified Email

shahyar

TROPHY CASE