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continually astounded to learn that someone around me is actually for real christian. like. aren't you supposed to grow out of that

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I suppose I should ask on behalf of my fellow ignoramuses why that persepolis quote is bad. I thought it was prescient, particularly to highlight the common humanity between the people of two countries that are hostile to each other. I don't think the part about our governments being the same are correct as America's worse for the world, but I didn't expect people to hate the quote that much.

In the era we live in, a government cannot exist independently of its people, "the usamerican government & the usamerican people" are not completely unrelated entities that happen to be on the same land with the people having no influence whatsoever on the government, nor is that true for any country on earth, let alone the Iranian people. The quote tries to ignore this reality by pretending as though the people of all countries are unrelated victims of their governments

While the "east" and "west" aren't perfect descriptions the world is very much divided! Again, the political scene does not exist independently of the population! Denying this reality denies the very context all governments currently exist in and make their decisions based on, it is denying the very active global hegemony's oppression, it therefore denies how the governments of SWANA exist in relation to it: sucking up to the west in expense of the populace and / or trying to protect the populace, it denies the victimhood of all Iranian people within this order actively hostile and deadly to their very life because it pretends such a hostile order does not exist in the place.

As you said it yourself too, "(our) governments being as bad as USA is incorrect". It is actually the worst offender here, the above so far is a deeply flawed understanding of how states & the world order operates. This deeply flawed understanding piles up to logically result in the final misconception: That the US; the deadly force that has been causing suffering and mayhem in SWANA for over a century, couping and scheming to install puppet regimes that results in the death of millions, dehumanizing everyone within the made up category of "the middle east", (something it carries from the west before it!) and the very aggressor here, is the same as its victims

The Iranian nation is a victim of the US, the Iranian Government does not exist independently of the people, the "just the government, not the people!" play pretend of trying to position the government as seperate from the general populace just furthers the said justification to attack every nation the US victimizes. Therefore it is a very detestable quote, born from mistakes in analysis the citizens of periphery who gather fame in the core unfortunately tend to fall in by passively internalizing the core's logic used to manufacture consent and combining them with the sometimes valid complaints they had of their state, admittedly it can also be from trying to assimilate by appearing as the Good Token Anonymized Person Of The Global South who would never think the opposition to the west is justified

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Ghost in the Shell presents a protoypically 'post-cyberpunk' world, one where the advances in technology have not swept away the traditions and world-systems of the past, but where each have uneasily integrated into the other. Nations, military-industrial politics, even just the use of household stamps — these things tie the city of Niihama to the past, to our past. In the same way the cyborgs of Section 9 try to establish continuity in themselves as they regularly cross the thesean gap (the Major's watch, Batou's classic cars, even Togusa's Mateba), Ghost in the Shell also grasps at the vintage, the traditional, to tie it to our own world. Individuality, individuation within the sea of information, is strived for, and united with its opposite; continuity, continuity between disparate selves.

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A spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea issued the following press statement titled "The aggressive forces who brought a new war to the Middle East will never evade the responsibility for destroying global peace" on June 19:

The illegal act of state-sponsored terrorism by Israel which launched a reckless large-scale military attack on the Islamic Republic of Iran at dawn of June 13 is sparking off strong denunciation and concern of the international community, raising the danger of a new all-out war in the Middle East region.

The daily-escalating Israel's reckless military attack on civilians in wanton violation of international law and the basic principle of the UN Charter is a hideous act of aggression wantonly violating the sovereignty and territorial integrity of a sovereign state and an unpardonable crime against humanity.

The DPRK expresses serious concern over the Israel's military attack and resolutely denounces it.

The present grave situation witnessed by the world clearly proves that Israel, supported and patronized by the U.S. and the West, is a cancer-like entity for the peace in the Middle East and a chief culprit of destroying global peace and security.

Israel has steadily expanded its territory through four Middle East wars and tens of military invasions in the past. In recent years alone, it has escalated military attacks on the Gaza Strip of Palestine, the West Bank of the Jordan River, Lebanon, Syria and other regional countries step by step, thus massacring tens of thousands of civilians and creating a serious humanitarian crisis.

The international community is strictly watching the U.S. and Western forces fanning up the flames of war, taking issue with the legitimate sovereign right and exercise of the right to self-defence of Iran, the victim, far from condemning Israel for getting frantic with the territorial expansion, pushing the situation in the Middle East to an uncontrollable catastrophic phase.

The Zionists who brought a new war to the Middle East and the behind-the-scene forces who zealously patronize and support them will be held totally responsible for destroying international peace and security.

@tajrishgp

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'oh no what if AI gets control of the US nuclear launch codes!!!'

and you think this is somehow a meaningfully worse scenario than the current state of affairs, where the US nuclear launch codes are under the control of the US military

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I'll just say: it's a lot easier to blame the usamerican working class or usamerican activists for being ineffctive simply because they're privileged or treatlerites or even just straight up dumb than it is to critically examine what to do about it and the actual causes, which, hint, aren't because of intelligence. the jokes are funny sure but when you have white usamericans deciding to sit on their asses talking about JDPON unlimited genocide on the US instead of getting involved in anything meaningful... it's really quite embarrassing honestly

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Landlord wants the grass cut in the middle of a heat wave ohh my god THE GRASS KEEPS THINGS COOL

our yard has more fireflies out of the entire neighborhood, it attracts flycatchers and several insectivorous species I fucking hate lawn culture so much

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"The modern revisionists deny the leadership of the Marxist-Leninist party and the dictatorship of the proletariat which constitute the general principles of the socialist revolution. They are maintaining that the aggressive nature of imperialism has changed and, therefore, socialism can get on well with imperialism; they are raving that the transition from capitalism to socialism can be realized peacefully through the parliamentary struggle" KIM IL SUNG

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this is how casually they talk about killing civilians. that's the controversy. not "haha trump admin dumb"

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gender: automatic riflemaid

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To be clear i don't think being weird about Japanese culture is a uniquely transfem affliction. I think it's a white people thing broadly.

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To be clear i don't think being weird about Japanese culture is a uniquely transfem affliction. I think it's a white people thing broadly.

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*fucking someone nonbinary* you've been a bad person

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