I mean I kinda agree overall but this is a weird critique because he was 100% correct about Biden’s cognitive decline. So that specific criticism is pretty weird.

I try not to hate anyone but Jesus they make it hard.

Yeah we should be focused on the backup plan. The only one I can come up with is millions gather in DC and physically remove these people from office. But I’m open to other ideas.

Not sure I agree with this. With the right people in there they could do something. Not that I think this is likely.

Without a change in congress I have no idea what he could possibly do to get republicans to do something. It’s literally a cult. He could come to their houses and rape their kids and they’d be out there the next day explaining how this is good for America, actually.

If you haven’t been accused of being a terrorist in 2026 you’re doing something wrong.

What is the evidence she ordered people to be blown up? I didn’t see that skimming the article you linked.

Dude fuck off. Obviously they can do what they want. I’m just explaining why it’s a bad idea. Neither of what we think matters, it’s for Iranians to decide how they want to handle this. But if I were them, I’d pick literally anyone else.

It’s totally ridiculous to suggest that there are no leaders remaining in a country of almost 100 million. There surely religious figures, protest organizers, local heads of community, literally anyone would be better than a monarch. Or if there is truly no one then I have to believe a better exile exists who is not so clearly a Western puppet and with the same toxic baggage. Or, worst case, let there be no singular leader. The protestors can choose delegates for a council of leadership. Even no experience is better than such a dangerous outsider.

There no point in overthrowing the government if what replaces it will be no better.

I mean his only qualification for leadership is he’s a prince. If you can’t see that alone is a risk of reinstating monarchy I don’t know what to tell you.

Surely there is a better option, someone who has actually done leadership work on the ground in Iran, not just spend his whole life whining about his birthright and being a tool for fascists.

Seems like a first amendment violation to me. Hope this will be litigated.

If you think the Shah will be any better than the ayatollah then you are a fool. It always starts out temporary with these tyrants.

Meanwhile, this bill to recognize basic constitutional rights and legal norms will die in committee while being derided as radical Marxist leftist terrorist gender ideology.

Yeah it’s too bad we don’t have clearer video. Like if you watch carefully and thoughtfully, it’s pretty obvious what’s happening but if you’re motivated to lie to yourself, the view is just obscured enough that the deception can survive.

Like a lot of longtime BLM people were puzzled that George Floyd was the one to break the dam of public outrage because things like that happen all the time. But the difference is it was documented so clearly, so intimately, that there was simply no possible justification. We may need a moment like that to break through with ICE and unfortunately I’m not sure it will be Renee Good just because we had bad luck with the camera angle.

Rulers need the cooperation of the masses. This is all about concocting a chaotic political environment where people are afraid enough that they won’t stop the power grab.

It’s possible it will backfire, and we should be doing everything in our power to try to make that happen, but that’s the overall strategy.

This is the way.

Europe realizing just how hungry this particular leopard is…

Beautiful area. I climbed Mt Morrison once and it’s spectacular up there. Not an easy climb though, at least for me.

I honestly don’t see how he can be convicted. Imperfect as they are, the courts have so far been the most resistant to magafication. I don’t know where he would find a kangaroo court on that level.

So common-sense yet how many political leaders are brave enough to say it?

That’s already the way the world works today, and violent people will certainly continue to exist, though some of the incentive to be violent won’t exist without the ability to accumulate infinite wealth. But the key difference is the state won’t forbid you from organizing community self-defense as needed.