• @karikaEnglish
    67•12 days ago

    By punishing Hossein Shanbehzadeh for making a point, they acknowledged he had a point

  • @Mr_Dr_OinkEnglish
    65•12 days ago

    Bunch of fucking fragile babies! Doesn’t matter where it is in the world, the leaders are always 1 step away from a tantrum. Fucking grow up. You are supposed to be running the country not crying because someone insulted you.

    • DiplomjodlerEnglish
      25•12 days ago

      They reign through terror. This is not some tantrum, this is intimidation. By applying very disproportionate punishments they’re sending the message that resistance is dangerous.

    • MentalEdgeEnglish
      15•12 days ago

      Not to mention that if you’re running a country, someone is going insult you.

      Making everyone happy is an impossible ask, so if you can’t settle for the majority being content, and probably not even being that vocal about it, then you should not be governing.

  • @xantoxisEnglish
    30•12 days ago

    So, the article doesn’t say.

    What the hell did the dot mean?

    • partial_accumenEnglish
      85•12 days ago

      I got an answer from the article. Essentially this guy was a known critic of the government already having spent time in prison for very direct criticisms. So he posted a dot. A completely benign post and then the following occurred:

      “[he] posted a single dot in reply to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s tweet, and that comment was liked far more than Khamenei’s original tweet”

      …and…

      “Iran watchers say the leadership has felt insecure about the high level of dissent in the country for a while”

      So a known critic did the thing you do to your old sibling where you put your finger an inch away from them and say “What? I’m not touching you. I’m not touching you!” and then your sibling is tired of your shit and smacks you very hard.

      • m-p{3}English
        76•12 days ago

        lmao Khamenei got mad because he was ratio’d by a single dot.

      • @Lost_My_MindEnglish
        30•12 days ago

        When he gets out, he should tweet “!”

        • @JimmycakesEnglish
          31•12 days ago

          Bro he’s not getting out They will probably kill him in there

    • @ArbiterEnglish
      24•12 days ago

      Absolutely nothing, that was the point.

  • toofpicEnglish
    16•12 days ago

    Damn, in Russia people were arrested for posting/demonstrating "no to ***”, but a single dot is a new level!

    • lurch (he/him)English
      20•12 days ago

      the russians also arrested some just holding up a blank white sheet of cardboard. i think it was in an area where protests are forbidden in general though. however, how does the absence of a message qualify as a protest.

      • @OwlPasteEnglish
        3•12 days ago

        In the same way and any dicktators need to keep stroking their dicks to feel good. No reason needed

        • @[email protected]English
          3•12 days ago

          I mean, if you don’t suppress political opposition and people aren’t happy with you, that’s a real threat to you continuing to have political power.

          They don’t just do this on a whim.

  • @filisterEnglish
    1•10 days ago

    Authoritarian governments are the worst. Where any sign of dissent is severely punished by the ruling party.

    I remember in my country back in the days, the government was spying on its own people, where ordinary people were snooping on their neighbours and reporting at the authority and people were put into correction camps and prisons for simply telling a political joke.