Barack: You told me all those years ago that you couldn’t promise me the world, but you could promise me an interesting life. Of course, you outdid yourself and managed to give me both.
Eight years in the crucible, and not once did you melt from the heat. Not once did you let it harden you. Instead, you used it to reveal your truest essence: your stubborn optimism and unflinching courage, your dazzling brilliance and unpretentious decency, your ferocious work ethic and absolutely unshakable moral fiber.
The discourse around Marjane Satrapi’s death has been vile and nauseating.
God forbid a woman with lived experience under a repressive regime writes about her experience.
Iranians are allowed to exist outside of your Israel-Palestine-Islam fantasies btw. Grow up, get educated.
What Conan touches on here is, in my view, the most fundamental principle that should guide our politics.
Our society pays tribute to merit and hard work (and it should), but we don't acknowledge that, more than any other force, it is luck that determines our fate.
A society that recognizes how much each person's life is determined by forces beyond his/her control will be structured differently. And will be a much kinder place.
@GissouNia@hra_news We wake up daily to execution news and come online to see the morally bankrupt write garbage like that to push their own narrative. God forbid he should use his platform to advocate against the internet blackout. Poor Iranians that manage to come online have to see this drivel.
It's not lost on me that an irreponsible click bait article from @WIRED could actually be the most genius part of this "psy-op"
https://t.co/VK2idHb2Og
If you are unironically RT’ing or QT’ing Islamic Republic of Iran embassies or IR officials or Pete Hegseth/DJT/etc etc, even perhaps with admiration then YIKES.
Just had some pro regime lady with an Iranian name in my mentions who is RT’ing IR embassies… like ma’am are you ok?
⚠️ Update: The internet blackout in #Iran is now in its 28th day after 648 hours, with Iranians having spent more than half the year to date cut off from international networks.
Authorities continue to refine a two-tiered system where only regime apparatchiks are allowed online.
Beyond concerning!
Taking such an action would negatively affect millions of Iranians and cause severe humanitarian impacts.
That no longer becomes actions targeted at the regime, but very much collective punishment of a population.
@kshahrooz Get out of my head!!! I can always count on you to create a concise summary of what feels like extremely chaotic thoughts in my own brain. So thank you!