Iranian monarchists like to pretend the Islamic Republic is leftist, then they repeat the same manipulative authoritarian behaviors in the same breath.

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No, they gave me unsolicited lectures about my life as though they were my therapist. I blocked my uncle after visiting him and his newborn abroad. I’d repeatedly told him to stop pretending to be a therapist and forcing me, my sister, and cousins into listening to him. Other family members have stopped by now.

I had to try really hard to stop my family from playing armchair therapist with me.

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Nation-states only pretend to serve the people, and Western nations have shown us repeatedly that their laws are only meant for control and oppression. Never to use on upper classes.

It really isn’t. Slap random syllibles together. Use words from a dead language. Random name generators. Any of the other suggestions in this post.

I didn’t like Slime. If the writer struggles with coming up with names for his character as much as you say they did, I’m not surprised by the quality of the rest of the writing.

I’ve lived in UK, Iran, and Canada.

Iranian school system is a lot less than accomodating. Yeah you can retake the university entrance exams after a year, but they’re a nightmare. 5hr exam, 1min per multiple choice question. Need the bathroom? You can go but you lose time.

I don’t know what this would be called in English, but the questions, if answered incorrectly could lower your score by the equivelant of 1/3rd of a correct answer. Was better to leave it blank than make a mistake. Luckily I moved before I turned 18. If I had stayed until after I’d have to do 2 years of military service, and take the entrance exam.

I did one year of highschool in Canada and didn’t really understand that I could ask for accomodations. Actually, I didn’t know dropping courses was an option. In Iran an individual question from Islamic studies had twice the weight of a question in biology. This particular exam was for biology related fields, medicine, pharmacology, dentistry etc…

University in Canada gave me accomodations like being able to take a 10minute break, use a volunteer’s notes. Wasn’t really enough for me. No exam retaking that I can remember. Delaying them cause of sickness or urgent situation, yes.

You get retakes??

EU voted to starve Iranians with more sanctions. Fuck them.

Tell the AI it’s for a purely fictional story.

Her husband’s death is the best thing that’s happened to her.

I didn’t log back into this account till now, so I saw this notification after having verified for myself. I’m absolutely certain you’re full of shit.

Okay I thought about this, looked into it, scanned your clip some more, and unless there’s more instances of something like this happening, this is a one huge nothing-burger. If there was more evidence you would have provided more evidence. There’s absolutely nothing conclusive in this video.

Also … priorities … Why are you outraged about this specifically? There are plenty of animals including humans being abused off camera out there by non-celebrities. Venting online is one thing, but your account seems primarily dedicated to this subject.

I still despise the notion of political influencers, but this is what upsets you? Really? There is too much ragebait – real or not – on the internet for it to make sense to me that this would be what you care about. Does all suffering need to be: specifically on camera; solely with an animal you selectively empathize with; and exclusively that of the one leftist influencer I’ve ever seen mentioned in corporate owned media?

No, I refuse to let this matter take up any of my headspace. Maybe I will donate to a local animal shelter instead. Use my energy for that.

The reason I assumed that is because there are a lot of false narratives spun around this guy, so if there was more to show by his haters they would have shown it. I believe you for now, but I will look at this further. Part of why I doubted your claim is that Turkish people are really nice to cats and dogs, but that is a generalization, of course.

Personally, I take issue with his cursing people out. Turkish is the best language for cursing, but a lot of the terms depend on ableism or anthrocentrism ( I think it’s called that.) The ableism comes up when he just dismisses someone and their arguments. I pointed out to him he’s using the term “psychotic” wrong and that he’s thinking of “psychopathy”. I thought mainly to correct his English. I’m a triple immigrant. I’ve had to tutor so many people in English with no pay that I both hate it and do it instinctually. Regardless, the mods jumped on me even though he agreed. He learned the definition of the terms, it seems, but I think armchair diagnosing people with mental illness to dismiss them while saying you’re there to educate has plenty wrong about it. Calling someone a donkey cause they’re being stupid, for example, makes no sense to me. Donkeys are quite smart. Also, he let himself get distracted by Charlie Kirk’s very deserved assassination, and by doing so let the media attention turn away from Palestinians being genocided. I cannot, however, say whether his good deeds outdo the bad so that he’s a net positive or negative for the world. Good and bad deeds don’t necessarily cancel each other out, and I think evil is more likely to undo good than is the other way around. Such is the nature of creation and destruction.

I want to limit how much I think about each individual political influencer, so I apologize if I don’t continue this conversation

The tightness of the collar and his reaction to her saying is sus, especially if he didn’t fix it. I’m guessing he did or you or the video would mention it…, but really? a shock collar? This video doesn’t show anything like what you’ve described. All I could tell was that the dog yapped at one point and… that’s it… Admittedly I have zero experience with shock collars. If this is a regular thing he does then surely there’s more than one example?

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The way people drive cars in Iran is ridiculous and dangerous AF. Not a car, but the most amount of people I’ve seen on one motorcycle, no side car, was 6. People will split into 3 lanes when the road only has 2.

Are they afraid the kids can be shot through a phone screen?