The Guardian used positive adjectives to describe an Iranian leader. Is it bad that my first reaction is: "Oh shit, the SIS must have dirt on this guy."?

[–] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 7 points 1 year ago

Will he be allowed to enact any reform? I was under the impression that the supreme leader is effectively dictator and able to overrule any policy, and the president is more a logistical administrator.

[+] clutchtwopointzero@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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[–] postgeographix@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Dude, Khatami and Rouhani are still alive, what the everliving blaze are you on about?

[–] circuscritic@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's just complete ignorance of the Iranian political system and at some level, a buy-in on the media's relentless anti-Iranian propaganda.

Far be it from me to defend a theocracy, or Mullahs, but...wait, I won't they're horrible.

However, Iran's theocracy is far less insidious than the Gulf Monarchies, so I guess it's better by default?

Oh, and no candidate is allowed to run unless they are signed off on by the Ayatollah, so there's that caveat as well.

[–] postgeographix@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

True. Similar to the Democrat primaries, haha.

But it is pretty well understood that once you get on to the candidate list, then it is a really free election. You can see from the Khamenei twitter account that he is salty AF about this result, but he honours it

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a form of light doomerism. You see it on reddit a lot

[–] postgeographix@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

More and more I feel we just transported the worst of reddit to lemmy. All the crap, none of the painstakingly built community

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah... Well it's easy to transplant. All you need to do is show up in comments and reproduce the culture. We all know it. Some of us are even amused or comforted by it.

Whereas building up for example a niche community takes concerted effort, mostly thankless, over years.

Still worth it ofc

[–] vxx@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"reproduce the culture"

I'm pretty sure culture doesn't work that way, it is built.

Reddit's culture was built on a site for tech guys. Lemmy is built on all the rage that came from reddit.

Our culture is the rage hivemind.

[–] postgeographix@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know. It's Saturday, let me grumble in peace lol.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 year ago

Haha very fair

[–] sunzu@kbin.run -2 points 1 year ago

how many are not alive lol

[–] alvanrahimli@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Glad to see him elected. I know Khomenei is still very strong in the government, but people say that president has solid impact in election of next person to Khomenei's position once he is dead. And he is 85. So maybe there might be hope?

Wishing all the best to all iranians <3

[–] alvanrahimli@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Just finished reading the article. The ending is saddening :(

“We have no expectation that these elections will lead to a fundamental change in Iran’s path or greater respect for the human rights of citizens. As the candidates themselves have said, Iran’s policy is determined by the leader.”