Compare again to the sub-10 number of protesters killed in Minneapolis.

There weren’t hostile enemy nations arming the protesters in Minneapolis, and they weren’t hunting down cops and soldiers. 209 government-affiliated military and non-military personnel were killed during the riots. The situations are not so easily comparable.

This wasn’t protest, it was attempted color revolution. Was Iran supposed to let them overthrow the government?

I think it’s unnecessarily conspiratorial to lay it all at the feet of the US.

We know Mossad was involved, because they openly admitted it. Mossad’s official Farsi X (Twitter) account posted: “We are with you. Not only from a distance and verbally. We are with you in the field.” Mossad Director David Barnea’s gave a statement following the June 2025 strikes, warning that Israel “will continue to be there [in Iran], as we have been there.” Mike Pompao came out to say; “Happy New Year to every Iranian in the streets. Also to every Mossad agent walking beside them." We also know they helped distribute satellite internet connections for Starlink to evade media blackouts, and operated social media channels to help coordinate the riots.

CIA is less obvious, they actually have OpSec and know not to brag that they have agents in the streets. It’s hard to believe that the CIA left Israel on its own to conduct this operation, though. Also, the rioters got their guns from somewhere.

They still hold power over multiple cultures and ethnicities and brutally suppress secessionist movements.

That’s literally every country on Earth. That’s what countries are. The project of nation building is welding together different ethnicities and cultures into a single unified nation, and sometimes that requires putting down secession to maintain cohesion of a single state. If your definition of “empire” basically defines all countries as empires, it isn’t very useful.

I actually think the future will be bipolar with India and China as the competing powers. The west has had its time.

The West won’t vanish either, they’re still going to be very powerful competing powers. It’s likely going to break up into chunks, though, starting with the split that’s emerging between the US and basically everyone else. Then, maybe, Europe will fracture further into blocs. No idea what Canada is going to do, probably get invaded and absorbed by the US or something.

It’s going to get ugly and strange. But, in that ugliness and strangeness, there will finally be space for revolution again.

Acknowledging that Iran killed forty thousand protesters makes me a Zionist? I’m not sure I follow.

It took months for Israel to kill 40,000 Palestinians when they were bombing Gaza, how can you believe that Iran could pull that off in days? Israel wasn’t able to hide what they did either because Palestinians have phones, so where’s the video evidence coming out of Iran? They disposed of 40,000 bodies and we can’t see it from satellite images or phones? It’s nonsense.

If you swallow the Zionist propaganda that Iran is somehow even more bloodthirsty than Israel, you’re a Zionist.

Iran likely killed somewhere between Iran’s official count of 3,000 people and the HRANA count of 7,000, a lot of them rioters that were armed by CIA/Mossad and were shooting cops and burning down government buildings. There were certainly unarmed people who were also shot, but the situation on the ground was chaotic and it’s hard to distinguish armed targets during a riot.

The “protests” were the original US/Israeli plan to overthrow the government, and they failed. This war is the backup plan.

Uh oh! You’ve been downgraded to semi-periphery, you are now an export market and obligated to die for us when we tell you to.

No. There’s the global hegemon, and then there are the lesser regional powers that can’t project force very far beyond their borders. Russia has been fighting for a decade over a relatively small piece of land that’s literally directly on its border, it just isn’t strong enough to even be an empire. There is only one empire under hegemony

That will certainly change in a multipolar world, but that means we can pit them against each other. Without a hegemon that can rally the entire imperial core against every revolutionary project, this new world will be one where revolutionaries can use imperialist rivalries to create space for themselves. Multipolarity is the precondition for revolution.

And in this new world, we’ll need to reevaluate the contradictions. Russia is my enemy’s enemy at this historical moment but in the new world I expect that to change. They are neoliberal capitalists, after all.

Sorry, you’re not getting UBI without violence.

My comment implies there is a primary contradiction, and the choice is between US hegemony and multipolarity.

There is an empire, and only once it is destroyed can we even begin dealing with any of the lesser contradictions.

It’s impossible to fight the entire world all at once. I say we choose the lesser evil.

It’s how you vote anyway, right? Why not just apply that on a larger scale?

Israel and USA can go and fuck themselves with a bomb shaped dildo for all I care.

Okay, so we can agree that Israel and the US are evil.

So. What does it say about Ukraine that they are on the same side?

Sanctions are siege warfare.

The world watched a livestreamed genocide in Gaza before Trump. That world wasn’t good.

“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.”

Yet most USAmericans don’t believe what is happening in Gaza is a genocide.

Consider the fact that Iranians living in other countries might have different opinions than people who actually live in Iran and have to live with the consequences.

The world will be better off if the US and Israel lose. If they’re allowed to do whatever they want we’re all going to die, the empire must be destroyed.

The genocide in Gaza was fucking livestreamed and most Amerikkkans still didn’t believe it was a genocide.

I want the US and Israel to lose. 🤷‍♀️

You sound kind of evil dawg. The internet is for fun.

Hey, if you didn’t want Iran to have a nuke, maybe you shouldn’t have assassinated the leader who was opposed to Iran having a nuke?

What? I said that chatbots can be useful, such as if you used it to explain concepts like how I used to use supplemental lectures. Hardly black-and-white! The danger surrounds students using it as a shortcut to avoid work and to cheat on assignments, and they absolutely will.

Remember, fault is irrelevant. The assumption you seem to have is that a student that uses a chatbot to sabotage their own education deserves it; we should just let this divide emerge between students that ruin their education with chatbots and students that succeed. Basically a sink or swim/survival of the fittest approach to education.

That’s a horrible idea. We can’t afford to allow students to ruin their education. The vast vast majority of students merely do what is required to get a passing grade, and if getting a passing grade no longer requires learning or understanding anything then they won’t bother. That’s really bad for them as students, and for society as a whole.

What you’re proposing is the collapse of civilization.

It teaches them to be good employees.