Popuru @ COMMISSIONS OPEN!!

im just tired man

maybe its a far left idea of mine but i dont think that strength is equivalent to authoritarianism and being an asshole

the movement starts feeding off general dissatifaction and frustration with "political correctness" until they quickly end up justifying bombing the middle east. every demonstration of brute force is justified as a demonstration of strength. "actually its good cause someone needed to do it y'know"

to say trump has been destroying the global political landscape since 2016 would be an understatement. his presence has since contaminated every country with "guys who are not afraid to tell it how it is!" with different degrees of success but with enough momentum to build an international movement

Some conservatives here think that secular young Iranians would be happy if America would come and liberate them. What would you say to them? Democracy, contrary to what they try to tell us, it’s not a paper that you hang on the wall and then you have a democracy. Democracy is a social evolution. It is something cultural. Iranians, they have become much more secular, and they are ready for democracy, but they have to fight themselves for democracy, and the only thing that other countries can do is to understand their fight and help them in their fight. They [America] talk about the human rights in Iran … how is it that the United States makes the biggest deals with China, and China is far from respecting human rights? What about Saudi Arabia? If you want to talk about an inquisition, the Iranian regime is far from being an inquisition. We have almost a free press, people leave, women have the right to study, they drive, they work. Saudi Arabia, they don’t have anything like that! Talk about human rights in Saudi Arabia! Why doesn’t anyone go and put a bomb in Saudi Arabia and kill the king?

Do you think it’s ironic that, in the face of American threats, you almost find yourself defending the Iranian regime? Absolutely, but if we want a democracy, the Iranian people have to do it themselves. The Americans say they want a democracy in Iran, and at the same time, when the Iranians wanted to become democratic in 1953 with [Mohammad] Mosaddeq and to nationalize our oil, the CIA came and made a coup d’état in my country. Why do you want me to believe that they want to come and make a democracy? We have to make our democracy! There are many things that I wish for in my country — I want my country to be free, I want my country to be democratic, I don’t want any journalists to go to jail because of an article they wrote in my country. But if the United States of America attacked my country, no matter what, I would be against the United States.

Do you see similarities between the Christian fundamentalists in our government and the mullahs in Iran? They’re the same! George Bush and the mullahs of Iran, they use the same words! The mullahs of Iran say we have God on our side; he has God on his side, too. Both of them are convinced that they are going to eradicate evil in the world. But when these words come out of the mouth of a mullah, it’s normal. It’s a shame that the president of the biggest secular democracy in the world talks with the same words as the mullahs. It’s extremely scary.

Do you have any advice for secular Americans who are faced with living in a country that’s increasingly governed by religious fundamentalists? If I have any advice, it’s that every day that you wake up, don’t say, “This is normal.” Every day, wake up with this idea that you have to defend your freedom. Nobody has the right to take from women the right to abortion, nobody has the right to take from homosexuals the right to be homosexual, nobody has the right to stop people laughing, to stop people thinking, to stop people talking. If I have one message to give to the secular American people, it’s that the world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don’t know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same.

The full 2005 interview it's from is well worth a read btw. Sadly just as relevant today as it was 20+ years ago—moreso, in fact. www.salon.com/2005/04/24/s...

"There are many things I wish for my country . . . But if the USA attacked my country, no matter what, I would be against the US."

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miku n miku

i bought a miku figure at the start of the month that's supposed to arrive this week. i wont be able to rest until its in my hands. the wait is killing me

my hobby is buying stuff online and then spending a week anxiously checking my email for updates every hour

flavor foley dropped another banger... they cant keep getting away with this.........

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had a religious experience seeing mcr live last night for the first time what do you mean i still have to work today

my empire expands. you can now find me on vgen.co/popuru

aw HELL YEA!!!!!

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but im even less ok with is how ppl are negatively overreacting to everything about S5. i agree with a lot of the takes and i get its fun to collectively bitch about something but im seeing ppl complain the jonathan and nancy lab scene was "too complicated to understand" like are you guys for real

after watching s5 i take it back im not ok with this

merry christmas time to repost the classic

im in denial why does nolan's odyssey look like that

"pluribus is too slow" yes it is!!! and im loving every second of it!!!!!!

good news is the local presidential campaign finally ends this sunday, bad news is we'll more than likely have a fascist elected president by next week

another CERTIFIED BANGER

also nothing will get a bigger reaction out of me more than seeing the emotional impact will's dissapeareance has on the town. winona ryder acting her ass off out there only to get sidelined on the following seasons... sad.....