tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post2505953334515481651..comments2024-03-28T15:58:56.369-04:00Comments on Face to Face: "New Right" now fully co-opted by neo-cons, with remarks on Iran protestsagnostichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-69149939024219348902018-01-05T12:50:35.332-05:002018-01-05T12:50:35.332-05:00"Cassandra Fairbanks"
Please don't ..."Cassandra Fairbanks"<br /><br />Please don't tell me the Julian Assange superfan is selling out. Poor Jules, poor Ron Paul.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-81576049580975678632018-01-03T00:26:57.973-05:002018-01-03T00:26:57.973-05:00Shibboleth overload from a Zionist / Jihadist shil...Shibboleth overload from a Zionist / Jihadist shill, trying to gaslight the Alt-Right on Twitter:<br /><br />https://twitter.com/crim_thought/status/948286169283837952<br /><br />Whenever there's an in-group buzzword in every clause of every sentence, it's a tip-off that they're really from the out-group, and are overdoing their attempt to convince insiders that they too are insiders.<br /><br />Normal insiders pepper their conversations with buzzwords, not every friggin' sentence. In the pre-coup days, I had lots of shills and feds in the comments here saying things like "Trump's cucking for the Jews!" by hiring Kushner. So obvious.<br /><br />I checked in on the Alt-Right to see if they're falling for it like the Alt-Lite / GOP partisans are -- nope. Give them credit for not falling for warmongering.<br /><br />The Alt-Lite shills are in spin mode, having to address so many major objections from an audience that isn't buying what they're selling. "If you're explaining, you're losing".<br /><br />Give it up, shills, you're not converting anyone, only preaching to the choir.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-16925461342328416692018-01-02T17:27:04.272-05:002018-01-02T17:27:04.272-05:00Newsflash from 2018: We have not militarily impose...Newsflash from 2018: We have not militarily imposed our will on any nation's institutions since WWII -- conveniently the most recent example you provide was over 70 years ago, at our peak influence.<br /><br />We militarily invaded and occupied Germany and Japan, and waged war against them as entire societies and peoples -- we fought against "the Germans" and "the Japanese".<br /><br />We did not fight against "the corrupt German leaders who betray the wonderful German people," as the Pentagon and CIA have carried out things for the past several decades.<br /><br />We either go in against the whole society or don't go in at all. Surgically removing the leaders doesn't work.<br /><br />The US used to be an influential imperial power from roughly 1890 to 1950. We no longer are, and have no chance of invading Iran as a total society and re-shaping its institutions like we did back during our peak in WWII.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-84041978608072028512018-01-02T17:05:52.170-05:002018-01-02T17:05:52.170-05:00What about Germany/Japan after WWII? They were cha...What about Germany/Japan after WWII? They were chaotic hellholes in 1945. In 1955, they had established strong institutions and higher standards of living that any other time in history. The notion that external influence is inherently corrupt/corrupting is false. I'm surprised a "race realist" such as yourself doesn't pick up on how institutions are established much more easily in societies with ethnic homogeneity allowing "brave reciprocity" to quote Robert Putnam.Aidan Barrettnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-13446756865701617532018-01-02T16:53:51.947-05:002018-01-02T16:53:51.947-05:00All those stable Iranian institutions will get wip...All those stable Iranian institutions will get wiped out if the US helps to intervene or foment another phony "revolution" like it did in Iraq, Syria, Libya, etc.<br /><br />Your dumb shill argument leaves out the part where the 1979 revolution was an internal change -- not one foisted from hostile outside powers, like the US that is currently putting Iranian people under crippling sanctions.<br /><br />Changes engineered from hostile outside forces are obviously not going to preserve the stability of institutions.<br /><br />And at any rate, the US has already done this once before in Iran -- the CIA coup that overthrew the democratically elected leader Mussadegh in the 1950s, and installed the Shah in his place.<br /><br />How long did that last? About 25 years -- and then triggered the Islamic Revolution in '79. They nationalized all their oil, as they had planned to do under Mussadegh, so the coup only delayed the inevitable by a little bit.<br /><br />Oh and BTW the Saudis and other jihadist Gulf states nationalized *their* oil, too, taking away Aramco from the Americans who continued to be their #1 ally because the GOP leaders are cucked beyond belief. Also the Pentagon refusing to get revenge against the Saudis for attacking the Pentagon building itself on 9/11.<br /><br />If the US Deep State of the 1950s could not do a good job of regime change in Iran, the more abjectly pathetic and retarded Deep State of the 2010s will do an even worse job.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-20673227385332638202018-01-02T16:34:43.589-05:002018-01-02T16:34:43.589-05:00Iran doesn't have identity/sectarian issues th...Iran doesn't have identity/sectarian issues the way that the Arab states do. As opposed to Syria/Iraq/Libya, which were creations of the 20th Century, Persia has an identity that goes back over 2500 years. Therefore, a post-clerical democratic republic is significantly less likely to spiral out of control.<br /><br />In addition, it has more stable institutions. Note how after the Pahlavi Dynasty fell in 1979, Iran's institutions kept the country relatively stable (although they were infiltrated by the Shiite clerics). Another contrast is that in spite of the economic/intellectual stagnation under the mullahs/ayatollahs, Iran's population remains more sophisticated/urbane/cultured that those of the Ba'ath Arab states where the autocrats ossified all civil society between themselves at the top and the tribes/extended families at the bottom (which soon served as the only rallying points for "governance").<br /><br />To be fair, Iran may have issues with minority groups in the fringes.Aidan Barrettnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-48626554205605065822018-01-02T12:04:03.636-05:002018-01-02T12:04:03.636-05:00* toeing the line...otherwise, another great post....* toeing the line...otherwise, another great post...<br />ChanChanRighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14181165766159462692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-80730720162758284342017-12-31T20:38:21.254-05:002017-12-31T20:38:21.254-05:00The Flynn people were always Iran hawks, but that ...The Flynn people were always Iran hawks, but that was supposed to be the bad that we took with the good -- getting away from the Cold War framework.<br /><br />So they made a wrong assessment of Iran as being jihadist -- OK, a big mistake, but perhaps one worth making if we could pull out of NATO, SK, Japan, and the Muslim countries where we've been partners with jihadists for decades.<br /><br />Now it's turning out like the Trump movement domestically -- since the Establishment's power factions are in total control, the outcomes are only reflecting the small overlap between the Trump people and the anti-Trump people. Lower corporate tax rates and destabilizing Iran.<br /><br />We're not getting the policies where the Trump people were distinct from -- and antithetical to -- the same ol' GOP retards.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-52275491236897181392017-12-31T20:29:12.992-05:002017-12-31T20:29:12.992-05:00J.S. -- as usual when you come in to shill for the...J.S. -- as usual when you come in to shill for the jihadists and Zionists, your comments will be deleted.<br /><br />Funny how you never comment on anything else. Almost like you're being paid just to shill for Saudi Arabia and Israel. Which one pays their comment-whores better?agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-77293085154976016602017-12-31T20:01:06.708-05:002017-12-31T20:01:06.708-05:00How disappointing that they sold out within one ye...How disappointing that they sold out within one year.gumdeohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16176571456227420680noreply@blogger.com