• Aljernon@lemmy.today
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    18 hours ago

    And the reason it’s “difficult to determine”

    Well yes, but also because I speak a different language and I’m from a different culture and I have a limited amount of bandwidth to devote to foreigners while my own country is such a dumpster fire.

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      14 hours ago

      Because tens of thousands of people protesting and thousands of them getting murdered by the government is so culturally relative. It’s hard to say what that’s about, because of you know the language barrier.

      Anyway, my point stands that if people from outside Iran can’t determine what the people of Iran want, then they shouldn’t be complaining about Iranians possibly having a democratic referendum so that they can decide collectively what sort of government to replace the current regime with…