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Yeah, we can totally trust a bunch of hateful gusano sellouts to bring glorious liberal parliamentary democracy to Iran. Them pissing all over the Constitutional Revolution’s legacy and thinking some glorified warlord and his spawn have a God-given right to override democratic decision-making, via the only representative avenue the filthy common folk had to express themselves, is entirely incidental (trust them also to bring up the fact that Mossadegh eventually dissolved the Majlis without a hint of irony).

Not to say Mossadegh did everything right (he trusted the US not to screw him over, after all) but to these parasites trying to smear him, his unforgivable crime was attempting to run an actual liberal democratic government and asserting Iran’s sovereignty over its own resources, like a certain other country the empire is in the process of besieging. Also Mossadegh becoming more well-known figure throws a wrench into the image of the Pahlavi family being glorified as national modernizers planting the seeds of “European-style” democracy.

I’ve seen some lib Westoids parrot this and it makes complete sense. It absolves them of the responsibility for helping strangle a fledgling liberal democracy in its cradle and supporting the modern day ideological descendants of its butchers. It also helps them sidestep the fact that the legitimacy of the Iranian government is rooted in their perceived liberal nationalism and anti-imperialism just as much as it is in the Islamic faith. Makes it easy to swallow the slop that the Mullahs and their IRGC enforcers are insane fanatics who must be prevented from having WMDs (which definitely exist) or any real military capabilities if not immediately toppled at all costs.

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[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 5 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

The David Weber fantasy of the woke Crown allied with the Commons against the greedy and venal Lords

Also not even all lords, just a few bad apples.

[–] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Ah, good Tsar and bad Boyars. Timeless classic.

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 5 points 9 hours ago

I hadn't heard that term for it, so I did a little search. Fun how NATOpedia seems to think it's almost exclusively a defect of the Slavic brainpan.