You know, sometimes it's ok for you to be wrong. I know hexbear is a community where everything is literal, but in this case, an Iranian Monarch and Iranian Supreme Leader are just different titles for two different authoritarian Regimes.

Just like Xi Jingping is the Authoritarian Ruler of China, like Mao was.

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (10 children)

This is just aggressive ignorance. It's not a matter of opinion or dependent on ideology. It's basic history and terminology.

an Iranian Monarch and Iranian Supreme Leader are just different titles for two different authoritarian Regimes

Precisely. They are different words which refer to different regimes (separated by a revolution). If you use them interchangeably you will confuse people.

Show me literally anyone else who refers to the Ayatollah as the Shah. Do an image search for "Shah of Iran" and look at the results.

Xi and Mao are/were leaders of the same regime (The PRC), so that comparison actually makes sense. What you're doing is the equivalent of saying the emperor of China is the same as the president of the People's Republic of China.

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 0 points 3 days ago (9 children)

Both are authoritarians that had people killed over dissent.

They are identical.

[–] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Authoritarianism isn't a very good measure of government, when a monopoly on violence is one of the defining characteristics of a state. The difference is often more perception than it is reality, and even then tyrants can be vastly different from each other. Abraham Lincoln had Northern dissenters killed, and suppressed peoples rights, yet he was still a peak president.

Richard Nixon is the Shah. Saddam Hussein is the Shah. Modern Spain had death squads killing political opponents in my lifetime. Where isn't lead by the Shah?

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