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Iranian singer’s 74 lashes for performing without a hijab ‘a form of torture’, say rights groups (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] 1 point 1 month ago (3 children)

It's pretty common for extremism like this to get entrenched when met with over attempts at manipulating countries. It happened with the Taliban and it's happened on Iran. It's pretty rare to get the "Regime change" you want through violence

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    The Taliban and current Iranian leadership are both conservative. I think you are inadvertently supporting my position that conservatism should be erased.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    Well, I'm just stating why groups like these gain traction. Extreme circumstances, extreme solutions.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    That's fair. I agree that extreme circumstances warrant extreme solutions.

    I spent over 50 years as a pacifist. I hate the idea of harming others, but I can see now that every single terrible thing done by humans in human history was done by conservatives. Every war, every genocide, every act of bigotry you've ever heard of... all of it is led exclusively by conservatives.

    Conservatives are the single greatest threat to all life on earth. For example, if not for conservatives, the normal people would be able to address climate change. If not for conservatives, billionaires would be chargeable with crimes and be required to pay taxes fairly. Employees would have the ability to unionize. Healthcare would be available and housing would be affordable. Every major problem we face as humans today is solved by the erasure of conservatives.

    We are in extreme circumstances globally because of the continued existence of conservatives. There is a way to fix this problem. And you're correct. It's an extreme solution. But, it's desperately needed.

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