To juxtapose with this article: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czeyp4l9l86o
Make Iran Great Again? 'Tehrangeles' community in LA reflects on US strikes
It's weird to see that community in the news. I dated a genuine Sayyida who lived there, her family being powerful under the Shah before fleeing in '79. I didn't get a good sense of their politics beyond the standard gusano cringe.
This is really, really bad.
here comes the war internment camps 2.0
You mean besides the concentration camps at the southern Amerikkkan border?
yeah. new kinds of horrors, we're playing all the greatest hits of the 20th century and creating new terrible innovations
i fully expected this. i can't imagine this shithole country NOT doing this
yeah, but when they were doing the japanese concentration camps, japan had actually, for real attacked the US. iran hasnt. so they have even less justification this time around.
This is a genuine fear a lot of my family has, besides the weird Trump worshipping diaspora (these people fucking lived/fought through the Iraq-Iran war). All of us are sorta concerned about what happens next to Iranians.
Through some 3rd party anectodal experience, i can confirm ICE is using AI facial recognizment to deport people.
The algo:
People will visa did this trick of leaving and entering every couple of months, but when reentering he got denied and deported because they had a photo of him driving in the US. Only way they couldve linked him to the photo is through a facial recognizment algo.
This is the country that points the finger at China for being literally 1984 lmao
came to the United States in 1978
A lot of them are gusanos, so it will come with no small amount of schadenfreude should they end up going through this in the US.
While no doubt a lot of them are gusanos, I don't think all Iranian immigrants from 1978 can be described as being gusanos.
I'm not Iranian, so I can't speak much on that, though.
And despite as evil and cruel as many gusanos can be, and how it could be satisfying for them to get a taste of their own medicine, I think there comes a point where it becomes gratuitous and unproductive.
And while this might sound neoliberal, and I'm probably way overthinking this, but I always stand by in a "presumed innocent until there is reasonable substantial evidence otherwise" kind of thing.
If this woman turns out to be have been a complete gusana, I might laugh, but I really do think that when push comes to shove, we have to be better than the capitalists and exploiters are.
Yeah of course, but it is undeniably funny to imagine people who virtue signal constantly about how Iran is a police state that arrests and tortures people, to end up arrested and detained in an actual police state. Like these people come out of the woodwork every time the US flares up against Iran with "I am a real PERSIAN and I want regime change!".
She was what? 16? 17 years old when she left? I don't know much of anything about this person's background I'm hesitant to judge a kid.
So? Plenty of Cuban gusanos left as kids, and plenty more were born to gusano families abroad, and that never stopped them from being the most reactionary and hawkish clowns of all time. If anything, being raised by people who willingly ran to the US when the fascist Shah's regime fell is probably a guarantee that you're going to turn out exactly like them, and possibly worse, since you were not old enough to actually understand what the country was like, and are easier to brainwash when sitting in your house in California.
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