I imagine this is what the GOP wants to see happen in the US.
Imagine leaving one tyrant for their restrictions on your religion only to come back to reimplementing a few centuries later.
Regressionists man.
A lot of the pilgrims were the fundamentalist crazies that Europe didn't want, and the towns they founded had laws like this and more.
Right but, before the declaration of independence and after are different stories
Regardless, we shredded through a genocide to take the land away forcibly.
We’ve been hypocrites since day one
It's almost surreal reading how silly religious mythology is, and how silly it seems to even allow it in conversation about reality. But here we are. We're still taking seriously the imaginary friends some dudes made up before we knew why it rained. And the humans in power still use those fictions to subjugate and control the masses.
Sounds like Iranian leaders are in need of more helicopter rides.
One likely fueling the other. Between the near open war with Israel and a satanic panic, I'm sure Iran was rife with conspiracy theory and QAnon style hysteria before their President pancaked into a mountain.
I can't imagine the reactionary elements in the country growing any less paranoid and superstitious in the wake of the crash.
All leaders
Conservatives cannot resist harming, torturing or killing innocent, vulnerable people. This behavior is just unchecked conservatism doing what it naturally does.
There is no such thing as a "good conservative". There never has been.
Was anyone else aware that nudity isn't simply a case of undress, but a virus, which can be spread like chickenpox? I sure as hell wasn't, prior to reading this story
"Even the babies are being born now... completely nude! It's unimaginable"
"Soon, millions across the land will be showering, sleeping, and fucking, all without any clothes on. It'll be the worst human catastrophe since The Black Plague swept across the medieval world!!!"
"Oh no! I've been struck by the nudity virus! Nobody look! NOBODY LOOK!"
Emily Ratajkowski has BEEN so afflicted for over a decade now. Hasn't prevented anyone from eyeing her up and down
Sounds like they busted a Eurovision watch party :/
Those sound like my sort of people! Hail Satan and off with my pants!
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A nice reminder that we'd all be better off without Iran's theocracy which supports terrorists for proxy fights. A democratic Republic by and for the Iranian people would be a major step towards lasting peace in the middle east
Yeah if only they had their own secular, democratically elected leaders. And maybe those leaders could even decide to nationalize their oil.
What could possibly go wrong for them?
Nassar's Egypt, Mosaddegh's Iran, Sankara's Burkino Faso, Obote's Uganda, Lumumba's Congo, Trujillo's Dominican Republic, Sukarno's Indonesia (Read the Jakarta Method folks), Goulart's Brazil, Arbenz's Guatamala, Guardia's Costa Rica, Allende's Chile...
I don't know what it is, but democratically elected leaders in countries that pursued an unaligned status just have a habit of getting couped by reactionary members of their militaries for some crazy reason.
Stop using the word democratic to mean western aligned. The west has no trouble financing terrorist groups, and the reason democratic countries cannot stay so if they don't bend to Washington is not happenstance. The first step to a democratic Iran might well be a USA civil war.
No I legitimately mean a democracy by and for the people. If they decide they want to be in opposition to the West, I'm totally fine with that. That's the whole point of self sovereignty. I just want the people to decide their own fates, because by all accounts, the theocracy and misogyny and brutal crackdown on protests are not popular.
I am guessing "satanism and nudity" means LGBT people, and I am guessing it means a gathering of gay people, most of them dressed but some shirtless.
Men and women were equally represented, so that must've been a gathering of all if that's the case.
So… it’s fine if it’s my cousin?
To gather - yes
To serve Satan - no :D
so. Alabama is a bunch of very fine people then? and Kentucky.
I've been meaning to look into the history of how the secular left was crushed in much of the Middle East. Thanks for the reminder.
TL;DR: Force
Those hexbears would be very upset with this comment if they could read.
The sex obsessed wet blankets in the clergy morality police probably shut down a concert or dance hall they weren't invited to where people were actually having fun.
And then (at least) molested the people they arrested.
Just to spread the good news: Irans President died in a helicopter crash today
Woah is he confirmed dead? I heard there was a search ongoing but no confirmation.
May be premature. Crash site has not been found yet.
Naturally Iranian state media is calling it "a hard landing".
US and Eastern Europe religious fundamentalists taking notes.
In America they are called Republicans
260 nude satanists sounds like a great time to me
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