There's no doubt what's happening in Iran is a massacre by a dictatorial regime, but good grief the parallels between the rhetoric now and that of 2003 are impossible to ignore. I thought we had moved past the idea that the US could just bomb a country into a better future.
The hard things about having rule of law, is that you generally can't disqualify people from VISAs based on who parents are.
And revoking visa granted years ago is even harder.
I think maybe the EU did something like this with some Russian elites, but as I recall they put names of the people into a law.
The rule of law has downsides, but as a whole I'll take it over the alternative any day.
Starts out ok and then starts cheering for the terrorizing of the children of Iran's political caste abroad. Don't waste your time reading this. Attacking the children of your enemies doesn't win your cause.
That said, dehumanizing your enemies to the point that their children are fair game is utterly predictable as a message that a blood thirsty Zionist like Scott Aaronson would endorse.
How so? The kind of insatiable appetite for bloodshed that Aaronson possesses is a very human trait for those raised without an understanding of good and evil, and one that the people he identifies with are currently acting upon, even over the past few days.
He doesn't know any better, as he wasn't raised to understand right and wrong, he only understands "useful for us" or "harmful to us", but that's still no excuse.
> After the 2015 Nuclear deal (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action), people thought they can finally live normal lives and have normal relations with other countries (See how people celebrated the deal on the night it was finalized). At the time, I was even planning to assemble a new PC and thought it might be better to wait and buy parts from Amazon!
Alas, if even if Iran were to normalize relations with the West, he missed Amazon's good years. His video card would probably be a box with a rock in it.
> Some even claim that the protesters are violent rioters and the government has the right to shoot them with war ammunition.
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 33.0 ms ] threadThe hard things about having rule of law, is that you generally can't disqualify people from VISAs based on who parents are. And revoking visa granted years ago is even harder.
I think maybe the EU did something like this with some Russian elites, but as I recall they put names of the people into a law.
The rule of law has downsides, but as a whole I'll take it over the alternative any day.
That said, dehumanizing your enemies to the point that their children are fair game is utterly predictable as a message that a blood thirsty Zionist like Scott Aaronson would endorse.
He doesn't know any better, as he wasn't raised to understand right and wrong, he only understands "useful for us" or "harmful to us", but that's still no excuse.
Alas, if even if Iran were to normalize relations with the West, he missed Amazon's good years. His video card would probably be a box with a rock in it.
> Some even claim that the protesters are violent rioters and the government has the right to shoot them with war ammunition.