Also: look at what's going on in Iran right now.

[cstross@wandering.shop]

RE: https://mas.to/@fsinn/115874067289064749

Also: look at what's going on in Iran right now.

THAT is what has to happen if you let the religious authoritarians get bedded in and you wait too long.

If they don't get the Ayatollah's out this month, they'll hang thousands. And if they DO get them out, probably thousands will die in the process.

Waiting for Project 2025 and the white nationalist cops in ICE to politely pack up and go home is a non-option.

[misusecase@twit.social]

@cstross There is a strain of thought in leftism that any mass protests aimed at toppling a regime hostile to the U.S. are instigated by the U.S. Or, I guess, The Jews, times being what they are. It’s such main character syndrome.

[isaackuo@spacey.space]

@MisuseCase @cstross That's the central tenet of tankie-ism.

The quintessential world view of tankies is that no one has any agency except for the USA. Everyone else is either a USA (Jew) puppet or good.

Any example of any evil can only be caused by the USA (Jews) and anything the USA (Jews) do can only be evil. Everything else not caused by the USA (Jews) is good, no matter what.

[isaackuo@spacey.space]

@MisuseCase @cstross This is one reason why they insist that the Republicans and the Democrats are the same. Their world view can't admit the possibility of the USA ever doing anything that isn't pure evil, so they can't admit the possibility that there's any difference between USA political parties.