Holding out for what YOU call a "flawless" alternative before you support change in Iran is a privilege paid for by Iranian lives.
If only people could leave their echo chambers and start thinking based on their own values and moral compass.
Lotfi Zadeh invented Fuzzy Logic because the real world isn’t a strict 0 or 1.
Imagine your house being on fire but waiting for a magical rainstorm and hating anyone who offers a bucket just because their bucket is dented!
Cultish devotion and reflexive outrage are two sides of the same effing coin.
If you think you're intellectually superior while letting your own biased media dictate your blind hatred for the other side, you're kidding yourself.
Fuck IRGC. Fuck this Islamic Republic.
We are dealing with a terrorist regime executing hostages under an internet blackout.
If your only reaction to that is finding a new angle to attack Trump, maybe think twice?
Also, respectfully fuck your far-left and far-right partisan games :)
"If your house is burning, you don't worry about the dust on the piano" (Drakulić, 1993).
Imagine seeing Iranians executed under an internet blackout, and your only takeaway is finding a new angle to attack Trump!!!!
"I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the... great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is... the moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice."
— Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail
The Nirvana Fallacy : Rejecting a realistic, available solution simply because it isn't flawless, all while waiting for a flawless miracle to organize itself in the dark.
It would be a massive blunder for the US to attack civilian infrastructure.
The Iranian population is very pro-America. People don't realize that. Attacking civilian infrastructure could change that.