this country is so fucking cool

  • @[email protected]
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    411 months ago

    But the differences are slight. Maybe won’t go as far down the oppression of women rabbit hole, but not for lack of trying. Merely because, I hope, our society is to far past that for them to drag us back that far.

    • @grue
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      5111 months ago

      Merely because, I hope, our society is to far past that for them to drag us back that far.

      These women in Iran just before the Islamic Revolution in 1979 probably thought they were too far past it, too.

      • @agent_flounder
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        311 months ago

        And guess which country caused that revolution…

        • @[email protected]
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          1411 months ago

          Iran. Even if the British and American interference was abhorrent, an Islamic Fascist state wasn’t the only alternative they had.

          Putting all the agency (and therefore responsibility) in imperial powers is also a form of imperialism.

        • @[email protected]
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          1111 months ago

          Iran caused that revolution. They were fed up with a leader seen as a western puppet so they replaced him with religious extremist.

    • @ThatWeirdGuy1001
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      1611 months ago

      Everyone says “that’ll never happen” and then it does.

      Inaction means suffering. Apathy is death.