You know, sometimes it’s ok for you to be wrong. I know hexbear is a community where everything is literal, but in this case, an Iranian Monarch and Iranian Supreme Leader are just different titles for two different authoritarian Regimes.
Just like Xi Jingping is the Authoritarian Ruler of China, like Mao was.
This is just aggressive ignorance. It’s not a matter of opinion or dependent on ideology. It’s basic history and terminology.
an Iranian Monarch and Iranian Supreme Leader are just different titles for two different authoritarian Regimes
Precisely. They are different words which refer to different regimes (separated by a revolution). If you use them interchangeably you will confuse people.
Show me literally anyone else who refers to the Ayatollah as the Shah. Do an image search for “Shah of Iran” and look at the results.
Xi and Mao are/were leaders of the same regime (The PRC), so that comparison actually makes sense. What you’re doing is the equivalent of saying the emperor of China is the same as the president of the People’s Republic of China.
Authoritarianism isn’t a very good measure of government, when a monopoly on violence is one of the defining characteristics of a state. The difference is often more perception than it is reality, and even then tyrants can be vastly different from each other. Abraham Lincoln had Northern dissenters killed, and suppressed peoples rights, yet he was still a peak president.
Richard Nixon is the Shah. Saddam Hussein is the Shah. Modern Spain had death squads killing political opponents in my lifetime. Where isn’t lead by the Shah?
Genghis Khan and Hitler were both authoritarians that had people killed over dissent.
Therefore, Genghis Khan invaded Poland in 1939 and put European Jews in concentration camps. They are identical.
I’m not talking about moral equivalence! You used the wrong term for the current head of state of Iran. Just learn and move forward, and stop acting like an arrogant ass when corrected.
I’m sorry if I sounded smug when I called out your initial error.
Yeah and they are identical too. I wasn’t referring to the head of state, I was insulting how the Iranian revolution replaced its tyrant with another tyrant.
All tyrants are the same. Their title is bullshit.
I do not have the time nor energy to explain the entire Chinese Civil War, the White Terror, and the Century of Humiliation to people who think Winny the Pooh memes aren’t racist.
You know, sometimes it’s ok for you to be wrong. I know hexbear is a community where everything is literal, but in this case, an Iranian Monarch and Iranian Supreme Leader are just different titles for two different authoritarian Regimes.
Just like Xi Jingping is the Authoritarian Ruler of China, like Mao was.
This is just aggressive ignorance. It’s not a matter of opinion or dependent on ideology. It’s basic history and terminology.
Precisely. They are different words which refer to different regimes (separated by a revolution). If you use them interchangeably you will confuse people.
Show me literally anyone else who refers to the Ayatollah as the Shah. Do an image search for “Shah of Iran” and look at the results.
Xi and Mao are/were leaders of the same regime (The PRC), so that comparison actually makes sense. What you’re doing is the equivalent of saying the emperor of China is the same as the president of the People’s Republic of China.
Both are authoritarians that had people killed over dissent.
They are identical.
Authoritarianism isn’t a very good measure of government, when a monopoly on violence is one of the defining characteristics of a state. The difference is often more perception than it is reality, and even then tyrants can be vastly different from each other. Abraham Lincoln had Northern dissenters killed, and suppressed peoples rights, yet he was still a peak president.
Richard Nixon is the Shah. Saddam Hussein is the Shah. Modern Spain had death squads killing political opponents in my lifetime. Where isn’t lead by the Shah?
Genghis Khan and Hitler were both authoritarians that had people killed over dissent.
Therefore, Genghis Khan invaded Poland in 1939 and put European Jews in concentration camps. They are identical.
I’m not talking about moral equivalence! You used the wrong term for the current head of state of Iran. Just learn and move forward, and stop acting like an arrogant ass when corrected.
I’m sorry if I sounded smug when I called out your initial error.
Yeah and they are identical too. I wasn’t referring to the head of state, I was insulting how the Iranian revolution replaced its tyrant with another tyrant.
All tyrants are the same. Their title is bullshit.
Goddamn you’re dumb
The people Mao killed outside of the 4 Pests Campaign deserved it, tbh.
Also insert quote from Engles “On Authority.”
Nuclear hot take, but there’s no way to fit the required nuance here.
I do not have the time nor energy to explain the entire Chinese Civil War, the White Terror, and the Century of Humiliation to people who think Winny the Pooh memes aren’t racist.
The fuck man, you just came out and said it lmfao wow
They’re right, killing evil people is good, fucking duh