Post #3048836
2024-11-04 19:01 UTC
@MeanwhileinCanada@ohai.social
All this crap and propaganda about "women's rights" or "LGBTQ rights" in the Middle East is a smokescreen. If the west gave two shits about these rights, they'd concentrate their efforts on foreign exchange programs, promotion of socio-cultural exports, diplomatic soft power, and normalized relations and trade.
But that would mean accepting that these states get to control their own resources, which would make life in the West more expensive. And that is unacceptable.
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@timfordwrites@mstdn.ca 2024-11-04 19:03
@MeanwhileinCanada@ohai.social You want to push back against Trumpism, Christian Nationalism, etc.? Knock yourself out. But don't buy into the propaganda bullshit that Iran was this glorious egalitarian paradise before the rise of Islamism and the Ayatollah. He's just the despot that wouldn't play ball. They love the despots that do.