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Marxism isn't about poverty worship, it's about ending exploitation. Being a rich fuck doesn't automatically make you evil or something. But you should try to minimize or end exploitation (if any, and as much as possible under a capitalist system). However, for some middle class nobody who doesn't have the MoP this basically doesn't mean anything.

Sadly mainstream lemmy has fallen to fucking crackkkers and fucking libs, but it warms my heart that they're getting fucked w/ 0 lube by MAGA while China is more relevant than ever

What’s the political situation like in Iran?

theocratic shitshow

leftist

Got mass executed in the 1980s and there are no real vanguards in Iran to my knowledge. Only anarchist student groups here and there.

What do you think could be done to improve Iran’s current situation?

Socialism is the only path forward!

Ah, I have to deal with this shit everyday!

Living here you will quickly learn how to use VPNs for accessing foreign services. Sanctions and domestic firewall definitely have a large impact. Internet speeds have improved BY LOTS in the recent years to the point of being quite modern. ADSL is mostly for shitty old homes who don't have anything better than decades old copper lines, in which case I recommend getting a rooftop antenna for so-called "air fiber" service.

Brain drain is certainly a huge issue, but Iranian public institutions are quite good. We still have the old, experienced generation of professors who teach in public universities. Private ones are a fucking disaster tho (education quality is garbage)

They are Iranian people who got separate due to imperialism; they are literally Iranian and the efforts to rename their language like Dari are basically historical revisionism projects. I remember an anecdote from an old Afghan lady who said "They came to our schools and changed Farsi to Dari on the book covers one day". Sadly I cannot source this because I was it on Discord and it's almost impossible to find now...

Pretty much not at all, unless they're like born-again or conservative or like that

Look the short answer is that the Iranian diasporoids are notoriously quirked up and they're usually part of some monarchist/MEK cult/zio cult nonsense, so it's better not to try rationalizing their positions because they come straight out of a crack pipe

There are people who say Khomeini was a plot against the gLoRiOuS mOnArChY and shit, there are people who fled Iran with lots of stolen money in 1979 and live in LA, there are doomer new gen immigrants who are the most anti-immigration hitlerites you can find

just don't bother with them they're mentally fucked

Moonshine lmao, people who are called "Saghi" brew and sell it + you always have to watch out for menthol poisoned supply

Go out with the lads, get high on cheap weed, do some work on personal projects, play video games

We sometimes get drunk but only in parties and such because it's illegal over here lol

Pretty decent, especially compared to how it was under the shah (and oh boy, it was shit) in terms of literacy rates, participation in society, participation in economy, etc. (definitely MUCH better than any US ally in the region lol)

Abortions are only permitted in special cases, I think? Before 4 months of pregnancy but I'm remembering this VERY loosely

Birth control is readily available (although to the dismay of fundamentalists) and divorce is not my area of expertise so I don't know how hard it is etc, but the woman in the marriage can ask for an arbitrary amount of money (mehriye) from the man upon termination of marriage who can even go to prison over this (obv, there is no marriage other than man/woman under the 'Islamic' Republic).

huuuh who decided on this being the default behavior lmao it works now

For some reason I can't see some of the comments, so if you said something and I didn't answer it's some BS from Lemmy or inter-instance issues or something