The language games that have been employed these last few years regarding calling the DSA “left” and “socialist” has done, and this is almost certainly not a calculated second order effect by the Trump administration, an incalculable amount of damage to the political-economic understanding among Americans.
Reading “Florida” made a lot click into place I am so sorry.
Oh hell yeah just remember if the administration wasnt utterly intellectually incompetent they would play into the divide between the reformists and the hardliners and instead of backing the son of the Shah start playing ball w/ the reformists. One way of getting the public to rally behind this would be covertly playing up the “celebrity” status Aragchi is attaining in the West from these interviews.
Araghchi is one of the reformists who still want to pursue diplomacy and has suffered a large reputation hit in Iran as a result, many still continue to call him a traitor and there was a recent piece of legislation that was all but in name directed towards him, Pezekhian, and the rest of the reformist camp preventing them from leaking information to western media thus playing into Trump’s market manipulation and undermining their strategy of economic attrition.
He loves getting hammered in France iirc
Anyone else see that vid of the king of Morocco drunk in the streets?
Are you going to force-filipinize me?
Thats actually huge lmfao, capitalize on this UK comrades
I genuinely cannot overstate how poor the education system is. There is no attempt at forming critical thinking skills, if you look at federal and state guidelines theyre primarily testing memory and an absurdly oversimplified cause and effect understanding of history and in literature. We have repeatedly failed every generation with the education we provide, and with the material conditions getting worse we are only seeing worse teaching practices as the resources and training are inadequate.
Americans typically work between two to four jobs, an American’s brain is turned off by the time they can lay their body back. Plus the hyper individualism contributes to an inability to imagine a scenario where things change w collective action as everyone is tunnel-visioned on their own precarious situation. Those who resist are thrown into the prison system which disenfranchises them for life.
And if you combine all that with the literacy rates, the scale of alienation, the quality of our education, and propaganda that instills a fantastically-undeserved arrogance into every citizen then you got the perfect cocktail of a self-absorbed narcissistic population with no time or desire to form a coherent worldview.
When has that literally ever stopped an American from venerating a public figure?
Interesting idea, all things considered it would minimize the damage of him proclaiming himself a communist to such a wide audience all the while spreading uncritical liberal ideology. Still though, all attempts should be made to prevent this from happening as an attack on any working class is an attack on us all. Plus if he survives we may have to consider his fame and the parasocial aspects of alienated american society contributing to him becoming viewed as a Mandela-figure setting us back another 40 years.
Is this how communists during FDR felt expecting the collapse of capitalism just to get finessed for another 80 years thanks to the New Deal?
We are all in financial desperation, still doesn’t give me the right to engage in imperialism.
If current trends persist it will be much worse than just that.
That may be quite fun.
Practice your discrete fragging form