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still kinda low-key horrified at Xhitter's attempt to meme regime change in Iran into existence
https://blog.emojipedia.org/x-expected-to-update-its-iranian-flag-emoji-design/
Look, I fully support the right of the Iranian people to freely decide how to run their country. But assuming that protests that ultimately seem to have ended with over 30,000 dead protestors would succeed and that the flag of the new Iranian government would be the same as the one that was deposed in 1979 is pretty ghoulish.
Also pretty rich how a government (and its plutocrat backers) currently engaged in a campaign of domestic state terror have any standing to whine about other governments
I'm pretty sure he got some tongue-bathing from rich connected overseas Iranians.
i don't think that a washed out royal surrounded by iranian version of cubans from miami would be very consequential, however if you compare scale of political persecution between pahlavi and islamic republic eras, this makes savak look downright humanitarian, and i don't think he would be able to make situation worse either. if my calculator and judgement of sources is correct, then 43k dead protesters mean that islamic republic in two days outdid past 100 years of political repression, twice.
also, islamic republic heavily exaggerated pahlavi's brutality in their propaganda, especially early on. for example in constitution there's mention of "60000 martyrs" but even their own revised estimates for 1979 casualties are over 20x lower
Starting this Stubsack off with the latest edition of Product Picnic, which goes into how LLMs have made good product design impossible, and how best to un-fuck the field.