Andy RabagliatiMar 7
An Iranian man left this comment on a YouTube channel.
"As an Iranian, I can tell you the situation is no longer just political—it's existential. We are trapped between two collapsing structures: one internal, one external. On one hand, we face a deeply dysfunctional government, led by the Supreme Leader and the Islamic Republic’s unelected institutions. 1/
Show threadAndy RabagliatiMar 7
Decades of economic mismanagement, suppression of dissent, and brutal ideological control have alienated multiple generations. No one believes in reform anymore—because every attempt has either been co-opted or crushed. But here's the paradox: We are also terrified of regime collapse—because we've watched the aftermath of Western intervention in countries like Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Afghanistan. Each was promised freedom; each descended into chaos, civil war, or foreign occupation. 2/
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@wizzy @srtcd424 cc @ramin_hal9001
Mar 8 at 10:57amWeb
Show threadRamin HonaryMar 8

@wizzy @xameer I remember reading that comment about a half-year ago during the so-called “12 day war,” which really should have been called the start of the “US-Israeli war of aggression against Iran” or maybe just “World War 3.”

I wonder if opinion polls were taken today they would paint a different picture? A lot of that “economic mismanagement” was about spending an unbelievable percentage of their oil profits on the IRGC and their missile defense program. For example, their aging infrastructure in Tehran has led to a water crisis so severe the government was talking about moving their headquarters out of the city. From what I heard, a lot of those “riots” from last month were motivated by criticism that too much money was spent on defense and not enough on improving the water infrastructure.

Now that the war has escalated, I think a lot of Iranians are starting to feel more thankful that they have these defense systems in place, and enraged about the murder of 160+ children in Minab. At least that might be why we have seen a number of pro-government demonstrations in Tehran since last week. I am guessing that right now people are hopeful that the new government might be less despotic and more pragmatic.

But I don’t live there, I am only going off of what I heard from a few people I know who have a better idea about what is going on, like @faab64 , and it is hard for anyone to get information out of Iran right now.

@srtcd424

Show threadHoldMyTypeMar 8
@ramin_hal9001 @faab64 @srtcd424 @wizzy economy sir is bound to be political as both the labor and the capital re no different
Risk is always always political , stupidity is lack of self governance or even worse lack of self control , which compounds
Show threadHoldMyTypeMar 8
@ramin_hal9001 @faab64 @srtcd424 @wizzy that said there an urgent need to create a safe enough space for pre-,post-truth space , like quota but not for ads and more rigorous , all its going to take is a bunch of liberal enough profs, professionals with vetted credentials to join and tons ll join , their voice ll stand out , because one need research in order to defy or defend research
Show threadRamin HonaryMar 8

@xameer truth is always going to be difficult, I don’t think that is a technological problem.

Modern technological advances will result in new problems in understanding truth and will require new solutions to those problems. But what will never change is that humans will trust each other and will place more weight on evidence from sources they trust.

@srtcd424 @wizzy

Show threadHoldMyTypeMar 8
@ramin_hal9001 @faab64 @srtcd424 @wizzy that's precisely I went into existentially verifiable static types
Even when I had no tooling, no funding and before it was mainstream buzz
I owe nearly all to #Foss and #openpublish