https://x.com/MahyarTousi/status/1832017472943174081
Endless quote tweets and responses just mindlessly agreeing. Quite baffling.
if anyone’s lips touches a drop of alcohol they instantly convert to christianity. everyone here knows that.
EDIT: also holy shit islamic “occupiers” is such a dog whistle lmao.
Islamic occupiers 1953 Iranian coup d’état
Iranians are theological authoritarians, but they also follow supply and demand principals and shut down mosques because people are openly refusing to be muslim
Supply and demand supercedes all. It is the law of the universe that cannot be resisted
And then you learn about economics and it’s actually like, not even a real, consistent thing at all because real economies are absurd and the idea of “supply and demand” is just a vague rule of thumb guess as to what’ll probably happen when you change something, but you can just as easily get rising demand from rising supply (as something becomes accessible and popularized), falling demand from falling supply (because people can just get something else), unpredictable effects from related changes in cost or availability (like a decreasing cost also decreasing consumption, because it means people can afford to replace a portion of their consumption with something more desirable), and effectively random changes from shifts in consumption or production of entirely unrelated things.
Basically everything they teach people about economics below a post grad level (and by that point someone’s in too deep to catch just how groundless all the pure ideology they’ve been taught is) is just flat out wrong to the point of being not just an oversimplification but outright incoherent lies. It’s like if Biology as taught in grade and high schools was interested primarily in doing dog breed race science with a handwaved “and other things are like this too, because that’s intuitively correct to believe” and taught that cells were actually sort of like tiny dogs and that plants were just dogs that sit really still all the time and that was somehow supposed to form a workable framework for anything and also that was literally the hegemonic state-sanctioned ideology.
(like a decreasing cost also decreasing consumption, because it means people can afford to replace a portion of their consumption with something more desirable)
just in case someone doesn’t understand this:
- streaming service reduces fees
- person now has more money
- uses it to build a computer
- now spends their time gaming
- questions why they even have the streaming service
- cancels
- an eagle named “supply and demand” sat atop the chalk and shed a tear
Edit: Holy shit I hadn’t read the last sentence
Uh, if this derangement means they wont cheer for nuclear war with Iran like libs do, eh lets welcome it
The zoroastrians are still around? How are they doing these days?
yeah they are still around. one of my friends was Zoroastrian. thanks to people’s interest in them they are not doing badly but they still face the difficulties minority religions in iran have, their membership is dwindling and when your ethnic-religious identity is wrapped up in fascist fantasies of pure aryanhood it tends to attract a certain type towards you.
when your ethnic-religious identity is wrapped up in fascist fantasies of pure aryanhood it tends to attract a certain type towards you
that sucks so much
from people mimicking your prayers and customs in their weddings so that they can have “aryan” marriages to chud podcasters saying we should hang akhunds from every lamp post while your religious iconography is plastered all over the background, yeah it does suck.
to a lesser extent this is also true about christians although that’s mostly contained to people celebrating christmas outside of churches at 12 am and causing a ruckus lol.
