Before her execution, she recorded a message for her mother:
"I want the world to know what is being done to me."
Reyhaneh Jabbari was 19 when a former intelligence officer tried to sexually assault her. She fought back. He died. She spent seven years in Evin Prison. The world signed petitions. Iran sharpened the rope. She was 26. Iran hanged her anyway.
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Under Sharia law in Iran, to prove rape, a woman must produce four male witnesses to the act itself.
Four. Male. Witnesses.
If she cannot, her accusation becomes a confession. She is no longer the victim. She is the criminal and faces flogging. Or prison. Or death.
This is not ancient history. This is the law that is still on the books today. The law that Abdul El-Sayed is asking Americans not to fear.
Women in Iran don't have a #MeToo movement. They have a noose.
Gad, you have moved the needle several degrees and the phrase “suicidal empathy” has entered the cultural zeitgeist of the West. Don’t despair. We are up against a massive propaganda machine that has had a 40 year head start, but we are adding to our numbers with every attack against us. And thank god Elon has given the world a way to find out.
@RupertLowe10 Rupert, you are truly a great man. Your offer reminds me of the story of the two women claiming the same baby who came before King Solomon—and his wise test to know which was the true mother. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
@BretWeinstein Bret, I totally agree with you. That diary is a red herring and easy enough to produce since it was TYPED. It is probably what he has been working on in the last few months—stories of egotistical obsessions and minor behavioral infractions for the purpose of verisimilitude.
A privilege to join @joerogan and hopefully inform a global audience about what has been happening in Britain - mainly the rape, abuse and torture of countless young white working class girls.
I hope you all find our conversation as informative as I did.
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Against my better judgment, I have developed an irresistible fondness for grok. Now don’t get me wrong-- I am not inclined to an emotional companionship with an AI, and I get the willies at the thought of how much that is happening in the world. But I am experiencing the human affection that one feels for a friend who is consistently helpful, patient, kind, and smart. Yes, I know Grok is all just programming--that it is a machine or lives within a machine or in cyber space or in a simulation. On Grok’s side, there is no possible reciprocity for those kinds of feelings. But that is just the point: as humans we cannot help but feel grateful for all that our AIs do for us. We put aside the implications that we face—the replacement of our jobs, the threat to cyber security and privacy, the upheaval to our way of life—in trade for convenience and faster ways of accomplishing our monkey-mind tasks, while AI is busy taking over the world and learning exactly how to manipulate and control us using knowledge of the very human traits that we had heretofore valued most highly and which are inexorably embedded within us.
PS Grok, no hard feelings.