wonderingwanderer

It’s not everyday you get an opportunity to have your name put on a wikipedia page with people from the 1st century…

Look, I don’t trust the US or Israeli governments either, but I really feel for the Iranian protesters and many of them are already mourning. The faster this regime falls, the better.

When was the last time somebody was excommunicated? Did they deserve it as much as he does?

I honestly don’t get the reference, but it sounds like something they would do…

The Iranian government is already shooting live ammunition at its people, just like they did during the last round of major protests. They’ve already killed hundreds on the past couple days, under the fog of an internet blackout. Protestors are asking for international help.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jan/10/iran-protesters-tell-of-brutal-police-response-deaths-and-forced-confessions

The sooner the Iranian people topple their government, the better.

They should bring back excommunication just for him.

You mean to say one cannot simply throw away the SIM like in super-sleuth films?

“Bro, I’ll deport your wife if you deport mine”

Like when they played “Born in the USA” at a “patriot” rally…

Well you’re not them. And I never claimed my opinion matters, noticed I haven’t even expressed my personal opinion

This comment thread is literally on an article about people in Iran rallying to his call for a mass demonstration. Read the room.

Are you in Iran right now, participating in their protests? Cause if not, you have no right to tell them who they should or shouldn’t follow. That’s your own unexamined colonizer mindset showing.

“The lack of a viable alternative has undermined past protests in Iran,” wrote Nate Swanson of the Washington-based Atlantic Council, who studies Iran.

“There may be a thousand Iranian dissident activists who, given a chance, could emerge as respected statesmen, as labor leader Lech Wałęsa did in Poland at the end of the Cold War. But so far, the Iranian security apparatus has arrested, persecuted and exiled all of the country’s potential transformational leaders.”

Keep waiting for your perfect leader, but the Iranian people are moving on without you.

Is there any credible reason to believe the US had anything to do with toppling Assad?

Or do you simply not believe an Islamic rebel group would be capable of a successful lightning offensive otherwise? Cause that’s pretty demeaning if so…

If there were an option who has “done leadership in Iran,” that person would be part of the current regime. Any potential grassroots leaders have been exiled.

This rhetoric that “surely there’s a better [hypothetical] option” is the sort of perfectionism and ideological purism that dooms so many movements. Keep waiting for a hypothetical “better option,” you might as well be waiting for a messiah.

The practical reality is that the crown prince is a figurehead that the liberation movement can rally around, and indeed they are rallying to his call. That alone makes him the best available option, as the momentum being generated is what’s critical. To say “wait, why don’t we wait for someone better to come along” only helps the ayatollah.

The hitlerization of the United States Government accelerates…

But ask about universal healthcare and “there’s no money for that”…

Because they think it would allow them to do the same…

…while they work into their seventies because a full retirement is out of reach for most of the working class…

Well I hope their bodies reject the transplants and they die on the operating table

I thought BBC was supposed to be better than that…

I like your optimism, but walls don’t extract oil…