Does protesting even do any good in a government such as Iran? Being present during a protest -- get targeted and locked up or worse (killed). It is really doing the oppressors a favor by gathering together.Rather than take it to the streets they should take it to the basement and plan out calculated attacks and disrupt the infrastructure that facilitate their rule.
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#42This thread will make things worse. When you raise a person's profile, the state won't stand idly by. You will end up with another Assange or Snowden. If this thread snowballs, the Iranian government will make an example out of him purely for the sake of it. In other words, your virtue signaling is going to get him killed. If you truly care, for whatever reason, reach out to your contacts in the country and grease a…
I have a lot of activist friends in Iran who has been previously arrested. It is well known amongst all Iran activists that media attention helps bringing more transparency and due process.
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#43I'm following the protests. I'm not sure why a cruel and sadistic minority can run a country, but it happens. I'm inclined to wonder why the US military, pulling out, didn't arm every woman and intellectual in the country. I won't forget his name.
because it wasn't a minority. The Iranian revolution had wide backing, the Shah was an absolute monarch who came to power in a coup. Women and students featured pretty prominently as well. Lots of the tactics today like women opposing the military directly were used back then too.
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#45Before making an appeal to save foreign hackers, how about that one guy who exposed the total corruption of our western elite and is still rotting in prison for no moral wrongdoing.
Where's my Free Julian Assange topic?
HN is truly disgusting/compromised.
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#46I'm following the protests. I'm not sure why a cruel and sadistic minority can run a country, but it happens. I'm inclined to wonder why the US military, pulling out, didn't arm every woman and intellectual in the country. I won't forget his name.
> I'm inclined to wonder why the US military, pulling out, didn't arm every woman and intellectual in the country. I won't forget his name.
Because the US wants to back something it can control, not a popular movement. The US government backed Iran's prior cruel and sadistic minority.
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#47Jadi, I am sure you will make Evin the best Hacker School of Iran. I wish I could do more thn few words
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#48I'm following the protests. I'm not sure why a cruel and sadistic minority can run a country, but it happens. I'm inclined to wonder why the US military, pulling out, didn't arm every woman and intellectual in the country. I won't forget his name.
When did the US pull out of Iran?
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#49This appears to be a good subreddit for following protests and other developments: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewIran/
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#50This thread will make things worse. When you raise a person's profile, the state won't stand idly by. You will end up with another Assange or Snowden. If this thread snowballs, the Iranian government will make an example out of him purely for the sake of it. In other words, your virtue signaling is going to get him killed. If you truly care, for whatever reason, reach out to your contacts in the country and grease a…
Wrong! the regime in Iran is terrorist. They have no mercy. Negotiating/bribing will not work. The only thing they understand is international pressure and money. Source: I am an Iranian
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