If he actually does what he said he would and releases a bunch of info about one or the other of the candidates right before the election, he'll have used up the last of the goodwill I afforded him.
The only reason to release at that time is if you want to affect people's voting emotionally before there's any chance to examine and verify the information.
His lawyer, John Jones, died recently under suspicious circumstances, suicide by train, and a man was climbing the walls of his embassy at 2 am in the morning... I have a little sympathy for him.
"Inquest rules that death of Julian Assange's lawyer, John Jones QC, was not 'suicide'"
So sorry but let me be frank, I am not American citizen, but as far as I can see you guys so isolated in your news media propaganda, you don't see what is going on around you.
The guy (I want to say wiki leaks foundation, but we are know talking about Assange) yesterday released one of the most damaging and wrecking e-mail records in whole history.
(As far as I did see in primaries, whole Clinton defense against Sanders was being equally liberal and having more experience, and those emails proved Clinton as always is liar and she is not liberal at all, specially in economical and foreign relations related issues which makes her campaign total fraud from and outsider perspective)
But American politics so bizarre and so ridiculous and people are so brainwashed, can't see the that huge leaks.
Instead trying to make fun of someone who isn't been 48h since he published one of the best resource about knowing truth about your liar candidate.
Let be honest, if 10% of that leaks was in Sweden election, I am 100% sure the candidate would dropped out already.
Let alone Trump calling some women "grabbing by p*".
Your whole country is fucking disaster. I think military industrial complex have eaten your country. No kidding, I cannot absorb how you guys give fcukig right to yourselves to talk about democracy in other countries.
It's a massive country with extreme diversity. There's lots of people who see what is going on like you do, and lots who don't.
Point being, just know that many, many people on the inside aren't "brainwashed" like it may appear. Politics or foreign policy is a poor representation of the country as a whole, in my opinion, simply due to the vastly differing views held by the populace. Whatever party or candidate or policy "wins" in the end definitely doesn't represent the entirety of the country, or even the technical majority on occasion.
I completely agree with your comment but not with your last line.
This is not democracy at all, not even remotely , this is complete, perfect example of oligarchy. People live in media isolation, power and money is restricted to only establishment. There is no way for an outsider (I, as Iranian, I literally love Jill Stein) to participate equally in election process without being ignored by mass media. At the other hand ordinary people live in so much pressure they don't tend to educate themselves (AFAIK, and from what I heard from my close friends who are student in USA).
I have bad news, this is same exact system Islamic Republic uses in Iran. We have media. So many. But all of them are fucking crap and trying best to ignore outsiders. There is political debate, but just like USA , it is between two same player every time.
Sometimes I think the designers of Islamic republic looked at united States and design a perfect Islamic model of that system.
How is this implemented in the Islamic Republic? In the US we use a number of interlocking myths and fears which ultimately amount to a basic misanthropy.
The most pervasive and effective of these is the "people are stupid" myth which is really a genius piece of ideological engineering if you think about it. Flattery, fear-mongering, and static inevitability all contained in one succinct phrase.
It is not like that in Islamic republic. In Islamic regime of Iran they completely isolated people from outside world. Don't get me wrong, when I am saying completely it doesn't mean people don't have access to Internet or VPN or satellite. They have! But ironically they educate people in a way which people don't have necessary knowledge to look at what is going on in outside world.
Average high school student maybe is better in algebra in compare to USA average high school student. But he or she lives in such isolated world he/she doesn't have clue what he she can do in world. They pump Islamic material from media , textbooks, billboards, etc in such a way people cannot see there could be another life style.
Take for example English. Average English knowledge in common people (even in academia) in Iran basically is zero. New generation tend to be better but far from acceptable. Khamenei is genius (I am exaggerating, he see all intelligences analysis, he should aware of this fact, but you get the point) about 6 month ago started to take opposite position against learning English language in children. Which is quite big deal, it shows how much this is important. Leader of country comes in public and says he is against learning some language.
He literally wants all textbook to translate into Persian , even abbreviations.
You know what? Because he knows if people don't know English he can control them better, because he can control media better. About content quality, I would say ordinary programmer weblog is far better than Iran's 99% news agencies official sites.
In Islamic regime they created kind of cultural isolation. If you smoke chemical drugs , they would be okay with that (of course they would not tell it publicly), but if you throw party with boys and girls , they are going to catch you without any doubt. You know what ? Because it is serious threat to established calture.
They created kind of fear mongering , like look at West these guys all are going to hell. They fuck each other's wife in every occasion. They kind of have built their existence on traditional calture which thinks of your wife, daughter, mom as your object.
They show every body who goes west becomes gay, or his wife betrays him.
You see what I am saying? Maybe for us it is pure nonsense, because our mind does not think of our female relatives as our object. But in traditional society is has been worked.
Secondly, do you know why they catch you if you throw party? (Of course rich people do what ever they want, I am talking about middle class lower class)
Because they fear like hell. Because they know (they are professional politicians) they are on losing side.
When average 20 year boy and girl did experience freedom, do you think he or she would give fuck about Allah or Mohammad or Islam ?
Of course not. And this is the Achilles heel of islamic regime.
Give me good budget, I would change Iran in just 20 year. Just with pumping free information. Free VPN. Khamenei is genius. He has been talking about cultural war for almost 20 year. He knows USA will never attack (who are we kidding?), He knows they only threat to his regime is cultural collapse.
They are trying best they can.
There is not real university in Iran. There is no professionals in Iran. Yes. You read me right. All elite people tend to escape from Iran (other than minor portion who end up working for regime for huge amount salary in regime infrastructure).
You bang your head against wall if tell you how ridiculous are universities in Iran. I am studying in unversicity ranked 23 in nation. You are not going to believe how what the crap I have gone through. I am saying this because truly educated people is serious danger to regime. Why would they want university if they will create generation of danger ?
They whole nation is like sell oil and give allowance to people to live. There is no fucking industry. There are some manufacturers, remained from Shah or Reformist area. But the whole idea is like sell oil...
>Give me good budget, I would change Iran in just 20 year. Just with pumping free information. Free VPN. Khamenei is genius. He has been talking about cultural war for almost 20 year. He knows USA will never attack (who are we kidding?), He knows they only threat to his regime is cultural collapse.
The CIA has been doing that for decades, it's not that easy.
Iran attempts to control access to any and all information and vilifies anything western.
Just recently they went on a purge and destroyed satellite dishes to prevent people from watching TV (much of it isn't even western) that they do not control.
That said this isn't an aspect unique to Iran or to Islamic Republics, this is how all authoritarian regimes works, N. Korea does the same, the USSR vilified and criminalized much of western culture, and the west did a lot of the same.
While the Soviets were hunting for bootlegs of the beatles the west was hunting for commies in the academia.
Yeah, I tend to agree, which is why the word is in quotes. It's intended to be democracy, it's billed as democracy, but it doesn't seem to really be what it's supposed to be.
He is trying incredibly hard to affect the election purely for his own (potential) gain.
One of the two candidates is much more likely than the other to put wheels in motion to allow his movement away from de facto imprisonment in the embassy.
Any other explanation for his shenanigans would be laughable.
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[ 4.7 ms ] story [ 52.5 ms ] threadAlthough given that Google seems ever more obsessed with collecting/retaining data I guess it's just as relevant...
And now -- finally -- he is announcing yet again that... he may announce something in the future, I guess?
The only reason to release at that time is if you want to affect people's voting emotionally before there's any chance to examine and verify the information.
"Inquest rules that death of Julian Assange's lawyer, John Jones QC, was not 'suicide'"
The guy (I want to say wiki leaks foundation, but we are know talking about Assange) yesterday released one of the most damaging and wrecking e-mail records in whole history. (As far as I did see in primaries, whole Clinton defense against Sanders was being equally liberal and having more experience, and those emails proved Clinton as always is liar and she is not liberal at all, specially in economical and foreign relations related issues which makes her campaign total fraud from and outsider perspective)
But American politics so bizarre and so ridiculous and people are so brainwashed, can't see the that huge leaks. Instead trying to make fun of someone who isn't been 48h since he published one of the best resource about knowing truth about your liar candidate.
Let be honest, if 10% of that leaks was in Sweden election, I am 100% sure the candidate would dropped out already. Let alone Trump calling some women "grabbing by p*".
Your whole country is fucking disaster. I think military industrial complex have eaten your country. No kidding, I cannot absorb how you guys give fcukig right to yourselves to talk about democracy in other countries.
Point being, just know that many, many people on the inside aren't "brainwashed" like it may appear. Politics or foreign policy is a poor representation of the country as a whole, in my opinion, simply due to the vastly differing views held by the populace. Whatever party or candidate or policy "wins" in the end definitely doesn't represent the entirety of the country, or even the technical majority on occasion.
"Democracy" is an interesting beast.
This is not democracy at all, not even remotely , this is complete, perfect example of oligarchy. People live in media isolation, power and money is restricted to only establishment. There is no way for an outsider (I, as Iranian, I literally love Jill Stein) to participate equally in election process without being ignored by mass media. At the other hand ordinary people live in so much pressure they don't tend to educate themselves (AFAIK, and from what I heard from my close friends who are student in USA).
I have bad news, this is same exact system Islamic Republic uses in Iran. We have media. So many. But all of them are fucking crap and trying best to ignore outsiders. There is political debate, but just like USA , it is between two same player every time.
Sometimes I think the designers of Islamic republic looked at united States and design a perfect Islamic model of that system.
This is the core issue, in my opinion. We have made democratic participation a luxury.
You would fascinated if I tell you this is the main leverage or policy or whatever you call it which Islamic Republic use too.
The most pervasive and effective of these is the "people are stupid" myth which is really a genius piece of ideological engineering if you think about it. Flattery, fear-mongering, and static inevitability all contained in one succinct phrase.
Take for example English. Average English knowledge in common people (even in academia) in Iran basically is zero. New generation tend to be better but far from acceptable. Khamenei is genius (I am exaggerating, he see all intelligences analysis, he should aware of this fact, but you get the point) about 6 month ago started to take opposite position against learning English language in children. Which is quite big deal, it shows how much this is important. Leader of country comes in public and says he is against learning some language.
He literally wants all textbook to translate into Persian , even abbreviations.
You know what? Because he knows if people don't know English he can control them better, because he can control media better. About content quality, I would say ordinary programmer weblog is far better than Iran's 99% news agencies official sites.
In Islamic regime they created kind of cultural isolation. If you smoke chemical drugs , they would be okay with that (of course they would not tell it publicly), but if you throw party with boys and girls , they are going to catch you without any doubt. You know what ? Because it is serious threat to established calture.
They created kind of fear mongering , like look at West these guys all are going to hell. They fuck each other's wife in every occasion. They kind of have built their existence on traditional calture which thinks of your wife, daughter, mom as your object.
They show every body who goes west becomes gay, or his wife betrays him.
You see what I am saying? Maybe for us it is pure nonsense, because our mind does not think of our female relatives as our object. But in traditional society is has been worked.
Secondly, do you know why they catch you if you throw party? (Of course rich people do what ever they want, I am talking about middle class lower class) Because they fear like hell. Because they know (they are professional politicians) they are on losing side.
When average 20 year boy and girl did experience freedom, do you think he or she would give fuck about Allah or Mohammad or Islam ? Of course not. And this is the Achilles heel of islamic regime.
Give me good budget, I would change Iran in just 20 year. Just with pumping free information. Free VPN. Khamenei is genius. He has been talking about cultural war for almost 20 year. He knows USA will never attack (who are we kidding?), He knows they only threat to his regime is cultural collapse.
They are trying best they can.
There is not real university in Iran. There is no professionals in Iran. Yes. You read me right. All elite people tend to escape from Iran (other than minor portion who end up working for regime for huge amount salary in regime infrastructure).
You bang your head against wall if tell you how ridiculous are universities in Iran. I am studying in unversicity ranked 23 in nation. You are not going to believe how what the crap I have gone through. I am saying this because truly educated people is serious danger to regime. Why would they want university if they will create generation of danger ?
They whole nation is like sell oil and give allowance to people to live. There is no fucking industry. There are some manufacturers, remained from Shah or Reformist area. But the whole idea is like sell oil...
The CIA has been doing that for decades, it's not that easy.
Iran attempts to control access to any and all information and vilifies anything western.
Just recently they went on a purge and destroyed satellite dishes to prevent people from watching TV (much of it isn't even western) that they do not control.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/07/iran-destroys-100000-c...
That said this isn't an aspect unique to Iran or to Islamic Republics, this is how all authoritarian regimes works, N. Korea does the same, the USSR vilified and criminalized much of western culture, and the west did a lot of the same. While the Soviets were hunting for bootlegs of the beatles the west was hunting for commies in the academia.
One of the two candidates is much more likely than the other to put wheels in motion to allow his movement away from de facto imprisonment in the embassy.
Any other explanation for his shenanigans would be laughable.