Today I Learned

I've never heard of Iran being called fascist. It is a militant theocracy.

How much of it did you watch? I watched all of it and thought it was very informative, despite a few errors. I don't think they spent too much time on WHY the government is inept, just HOW inept it is. They shit on the current government and the Shah before them so I don't see them playing favorites.

Iran is pretty fascist-adjacent so it's an easy mistake to make. They hit almost all the notes to play that song.

Yeah they're a totalitarian theocracy

Asianometry covered it two years ago.

Not as "fresh", but he's got a pretty good reputation for deep dives and puts sources in the video.

As an Italian, I can tell you that I call theocratic regimes whose power is based on individual control and punishment at scale, fascist regimes.

I know that totalitarian or, in some other cases, authoritarian would be more appropriate, but at least in my culture fascism has been the first and the archetype of all totalitarianisms.

Not letting Iran enjoy the deserved hate it derives from an even longer history of antifascism would be too big a discount.

Theocracy, fascist, dictatorship, the difference is fun for political majors to circlejerk about, but at the end of the day, these governments are hell for the populace.

They torture, imprison and kill people that are different, people that dare dissent.

It was the oil wells and not the people who’s been “liberated” all along.

If there had been less spent on war they could have built some infrastructure to help with the situation.

Thanks.

Iranian law stipulates that 85 percent of domestic food be produced locally, Morad Kaviani, professor of geography and hydropolitics at Iran’s Kharazmi University, told state television last week.

However, he added, Iran does not have the water and soil capacities, and nearly 30 percent of agricultural produce is wasted due to a lack of infrastructure, outdated irrigation practices and misguided crop selection.

Sounds like one of the biggest root disasters, eh?

So, this situation may only slightly be related to AGCC, but it does seem ominous in painting a certain picture of the future. I wonder if and when Russia and China step in, here...

What do you watch then if you can't watch YouTube?

There’s a good real life lore video on nebula. They killed their traditional agricultural system with an extractive well water fueled one which depletes aquifers. Neighboring rivers from other countries got dammed. They rerouted their own rivers for dams and dried out lakes and flooded a salt deposit making the whole river salty. They also focus a lot on domestic agriculture at the expense of water depletion. All around poor mismanagement using outdated American plans to build their dam infrastructure without environmental assessments.

From what I've heard, the current government tapped the groundwater table to push farming. Now, there isn't enough groundwater to accommodate the difference between water demand and river water.

It sucks for Iran.