So more or less they want to compensate for that by pressuring other states to redraw around their urban centers? I could see that being the case.

You don't think the end game is some kind of intimidation campaign? Tbh nothing is really out of the question with these people. Their leader is arguably the most morally bankrupt person in the country. I just feel like this will turn out to be for something worse than we expect.

That's where I find myself confused. They won in those states, didn't they? I don't see a clear motive for seizing any ballots. Unless this has something to do with midterms but what could they even do with those ballots that isn't already covered in that voting rights bill?

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It's not on display either. Just locked up somewhere out of sight, because reasons.

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I don't know that much will change whether they take a majority or not. If the same people who caved on the last shutdown when they had public sympathy on their side are still there, personally I don't think they'll be equipped to do anything productive about POTUS.

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As I bear witness to this on a Philadelphia bus, on my way to the job that pays me, where I work for a trans man alongside two bisexual chefs and I myself am gay, I can't help thinking this institution has lost its mind to hate. That it has no values. That is has no value as a moral guide post. 3/

The God fearing woman has also accused this girl of being a drug addict.

And this is the central hypocrisy I see in the Christian ecosystem. A woman who would have you believe she believes in love and forgiveness is screaming the most hateful vitriol at a teacher! 2/

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This is where I leave this though. No sense arguing with someone who so clearly has no idea what he's talking about. So this will conclude my involvement in this conversation. Thank you and goodnight. 5

And on that note, around the time Iran fell, our government started really copying up to Israel in the very same way we did with Iran. So this whole conflict is entirely our own damned fault, and the solution seems (to me) to be to learn to mind our own business. 4

But to my original point (the one you seem content to ignore) Iran got this way because the CIA backed an autocratic regime under the Shah of Iran. They trained their military. At one point they flirted with teaching them to enrich uranium. They were Israel before Israel to us. 3

Choice and democracy are not equivocal. People can choose to back a revolutionary force only to then be assumed into a new dictatorship as happened in Cuba, Gaza and (more recently) Afghanistan. Frankly, were a small step away from exactly that scenario right now with the Trump Administration. 2

No, but I think this conversation has run its course. What I am saying is the people backed Ayatollah Khomeini against the Shah during the Islamic Revolution, thus ultimately choosing what they now have. Though still autocratic in nature, they did choose this *at one point*. 1

On a technical basis, it's still a practicing democracy. They hold elections. They have a prime minister. Whether the Ayatollah or the Shah, their government has nonetheless not been beholden to the people in a very long time, if it ever was.

In the 70s hun. Try to keep up.

But you're also making a straw man argument in regard to another geopolitical issue. Funny enough, that coup is just an extension of the banana republic concept Kissinger was so fond of. All of this amounts to runaway capitalism propping up mass murder as liberation. Very bland stuff.

No. They're the same. The U.S. didn't pass power to the opposition politician who technically beat him in the last sham election. We handed power directly to his hand picked vice president. Same regime. Different face. Better access to oil for U.S. companies. It's all very predictable.

The people of Iran chose this regime. They only deigned to exist under the one it replaced because the U.S. forced it onto them. That bit of history is pretty unambiguous. Shah was deposed. CIA reinstalled him, underestimated Muslim revolutionaries popularity and tada! 50 years later, we're here.

None whatsoever, given they both lead violent crackdowns on protesters, committed blatant human rights abuses against their people and leaned on foreign allies to bolster their power. What's more, the Shah's brutal regime contributed directly to the popular uprising that installed the Ayatollahs. 1/

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What I'm saying is we created the mess over there almost single handedly, just as we've done with almost every other country we've interfered with. We have made the world more dangerous and less free with just about every intervention, and that's unlikely to change with this most recent war.

Are just as bad as any other religious extremists. Your take has no teeth.

Frankly, I'm no fan of the Ayatollah or what he represents, but the U.S. is also directly responsible for the success of the Islamic Revolution in Iran. You can blame the CIA backing autocratic Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.