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In Topic: Israel and Iran
17 April 2026 - 02:42 PM
amphibian, on 17 April 2026 - 02:09 PM, said:QuickTidal, on 17 April 2026 - 11:48 AM, said:Without the US intervention with Mossadegh (Pre-Shah), NONE of this occurs. There's no Shah, no Russia involvement, and no Islamic revolution. A democratically elected leader deigned to suggest that Iran should make money off its oil for its own people, and the US spazzed and created ALL this...so it's a little rich for Cause to suggest that Iran is being provocative when for all intents and purposes this whole situation is the US's fault, and never mind that things were heading in the right direction with Obama and any threat of "nuclear" type was long gone...until Trump.
Their treatment/murder of protestors is a seperate thing that does not affect the USA, and is not a world issue as far as I'm concerned, when the US won't hold other nations accountable for the same and worse. Iran is only free game because "oil" and "Israel said pretty please"?
It's my firm thinking that Iran, the very large Shia majority oil producing and controlling nation, would come into significant conflicts with the Wahhabi Gulf states and with the Iraqi regime under Saddam Hussein even without US involvement.
I think that's a fair thing to surmise, and I'm certainly not going to say that without US intervention things would have been tickety boo, but we will never know because the US always gets involved so we don't have to speculate about that alternate timeline.
In this timeline, the US's involvement is a rock solid fact of how Iran ended up where it ended up.
I'm not defending the regime in control of Iran here, let's be clear, but Iran as a whole nation of 90+ million people is WAY worse off than it would have otherwise have been without that US intervention. In a perfect world where Mossadegh gets to actually make the oil industry serve the population on a long measure, I think the nation develops differently.
That said, seeing images from the past of gulf states as they modernized in the mid-20th century like Western nations did...only to be shunted back by religion (no matter the religion) is always a terrible thing to see.
But I'm on the notion that organized religion is the source of MOST of the ills of this planet and we would universally be better off without any of it. -
In Topic: Israel and Iran
17 April 2026 - 01:52 PM
the broken, on 17 April 2026 - 01:15 PM, said:Lots of countries are victims of violence, but it gets weird whenever anyone brings up non US victims of violence and the response is 'but what about the US?'
This whole conversation is about the USA...what are you on about? -
In Topic: Israel and Iran
17 April 2026 - 01:51 PM
Tiste Simeon, on 17 April 2026 - 12:19 PM, said:I think that really the difference between the bad leaders of these countries that the US destabilises and the bad leaders in the US is the obviousness of the violence. The US does violence through capitalism, mass media propaganda and shadow operations. The others do it in a more traditional way...
SO accurate.
Like poor people being kept poor by sheer levels of US capitalism and greed is still violence, just of a different kind, because illness, and deaths WILL result be it from extreme poverty, or starvation, or simply by dint of being low enough on the pole to fall into a bad situation.
Explaining to countries with socialized medicine that the US claims to be super free and the best country ever...but if you get cancer and you're not rich you're probably going to die is so wild to them. -
In Topic: Ye Big TV Thread
17 April 2026 - 01:48 PM
Tsundoku, on 17 April 2026 - 01:45 PM, said:I think the Mrs tried it out recently. She seemed to like it. Wasn't my cup of tea though.
I was already enjoying the story but then midway through episode 2...kung-fu and staff fighting in what ostensibly seems to be a romance drama. Amazing.
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In Topic: Ye Big TV Thread
17 April 2026 - 12:45 PM
PURSUIT OF JADE on Netflix is excellent so far. It's a Chinese drama about an orphaned pig-seller girl and her sister trying to survive while liking after a disgraced nobleman they come across as wounded and hunted.
The production value is insane and this sets all look like paintings...and the two leads Tian Xiwei (who looks like a Disney princess) and Zhang Linghe have a metric tonne of chemistry.
If you're into C-Dramas, check it out, and if you're into K-Drama's then check it out too.
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