• Thalion@lemmy.ca
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      1 day ago

      Sources like the fact that Iran openly states that foreign policy is decided by the office of the Supreme Leader? Or that Presidential candidates have to be approved by the (unelected) guardian council? Or do you mean a source for you being an idiot? Sadly I don’t have that

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        21 hours ago

        Ok we’re talking about the elections not the candidate selection process. The only candidates we get to vote for in the US have to be approved by the shady dark money billionaire class and the lobby of an evil genocidal ethnostate. If it is indeed true that the Ayatollah has to approve candidates in Iran, I’d rather take my chances with one well-known dude with some degree of morals than with a bunch of faceless warmongering capitalist pigs. But I’m just an anti-imperialist idiot that wants peace in the Middle East so don’t listen to me.

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          20 hours ago

          Actually we’re talking about it being irrelevant whether the election or the candidate selection are free and fair because, as previous established, the Supreme leader is the one calling the shots