This is the first succession of power for the position, hell if I know if I'd call it "hereditary/dynastic" just with this.

I believe I'd heard in some analysis vid quite a while back that the son is closely affiliated/engaged with the IRGC; I imagine that's the more important point. It might be good optics (though the only optics they should need to care for are their own people, and the Shia world in this context) not to pass it down another generation after, though. But what definitely matters most is keeping the revolutionary core of the state intact (even if it isn't exactly proletarian, in this struggle and in many other things due to circumstances that won't change too much for the foreseeable future it is the same as and vital to the entire cause of the rest of humanity). I imagine it's that kind of consideration that was in play, especially when the country is being besieged by the west, now open in their intent to wage unprovoked war until all of west/central Asia (and ultimately the world) is a destabilized, fractured, helpless hellhole they can prevent from developing forever..

Not to mention, the west are the ones trying to push the shah's failson who never even has stepped foot in the country to be leader instead, the west is full of "constitutional monarchies" and political/economic dynasties, and back a swathe of absolute monarchies in the region and around the world.

This was already the reality on paper, the only difference is Trump is saying it out loud.

Blackrock and other US corporate giants basically own Ukraine at this point. Zelensky himself has talked about how Ukraine "takes credit" and the Banderite state literally runs its own official site to auction off state assets to western vultures.

That said, this is as good as it gets (IMO). The leader of the ""free world"" is going mask-off as a naked imperialist, but the mineral wealth lies safely in the hands of Russia and the global majority (as it is concentrated in eastern former Ukraine) and therefore will not enrich the west.

Rare based evangelical???

IMO if there were a god, London would cease to exist on that day of sacrilege against all notions of basic decency and humanity. 500 years of unimaginable barbarism by the west and still they manage to think up new and hideous ways to make a mockery of all sense of decency and humanity itself.

Most (European-descended) Jewish people are white IMO, it's not exactly difficult to see it (both in regards to appearance, but moreso in regards to privilege).

It's a contextual whiteness (an arbitrary construct) as always, but we may as well be arguing if Irish, Russians, or Italians are "white" at that point as well, or even if the white Latin Americans or Boers (who were also brutally abused by the British), etc. are "white." Go back far enough, and you'll find Ben Franklin going on about how even the Germans and Nordics are "tawny" and only the English and Saxons are white...

To argue further on it we'd need to define the limitations of what kind of whiteness we're talking about IMO. "Phenotypical" whiteness (usually with an ethno-religious bent particularly to root out Muslims and indigenous culture) like what is predominantly, culturally ingrained across the settler-Anglosphere? "Whiteness" by political alignment and acceptment into the upper echelons of the imperialist in-group? (Even then that becomes messy as all hell, for instance we all know Klanmala, Barry, and Rishi aren't white, even if Barry is half-white or half-European descent).

There won't be any satisfying answers ultimately. But I don't think anyone can look at Blinken, Yellen, Nuland, Netanyahu, or the many other prominent European-descended Jewish people in the framework of empire today and say that they are not white in the here-and-now; as white as imaginable. Not to say whiteness is associated with guilt- because if it were then as with the other definitions it becomes messy as all hell- but the whiteness, and adjacency or acceptance into it (into empire and the system of white supremacy, perhaps?) certainly is a thing today.

Probably the most satisfying/fitting thing IMO (other than the phenotypical definition, or geographic one) would be "adjacency to empire" but even that naturally falls apart real fast.

It's like the west cultivates them and brings them to media, politics, etc., all the worst examples of humanity... though even then the other disease that comes to mind (Tate) can at least realize "huh, genocide is wrong..." whatever his reasons

Since I didn't see your first post when it happened, welcome

And I couldn't agree more. None of us are here, at the political juncture we are, because we wanted to be. People don't want to live in a world that is so fundamentally broken, nor to be exploited and live precariously, etc... most people don't want to experience racism and other bigotry, they don't want to have their countries destroyed by war or their people genocidally slaughtered, and so on. We were driven here because of the material conditions and societal contradictions (racism, homophobia, transphobia, sexism, classism, etc) of our lives, and having either empathy or at least finding rational common interest/cause with others after seeing the material conditions of others' lives (up to and including the sheer destruction, deprivation, and genocide currently being waged- by the western system- on Gaza).

We're here because their system, the system they protect and circle around is a hideous, genocidal, hyper-exploitative one, and many of us (the overwhelming majority of humanity by a wide margin, really) are the human detritus they have left in their wake. We're here because we have either the principles or at least understanding (once again, of common cause) to not look away from the death, destruction, and deprivation their system causes around the entire world, and the decency to stand against it- whereas they are complicit with it, defend and support it, like with their posts about you, and some (probably more than we'd suspect) are directly participating in it. We are the product of their collective actions within their system, and because of their denial of guilt and assumed self-interest (for social acceptance, economic interest, etc) they hate us for it.

I certainly didn't start off here, rather I was raised to be the opposite in many ways. And I wanted to be optimistic, I even wanted to be and was ignorantly patriotic and hopeful for a time. I certainly don't want to live in a country which is actively and directly supporting industrial genocide, which is a racist and exploitative hellhole doing its best to instigate a 3-front WW3, and in which I see poverty and hopelessness all around me, and where any rational and informed understanding of the system I live under will show that it only serves to perpetuate and exacerbate all of these issues for its own gain.

Fuck the libs, may they burn in hell, if one exists they will surely be going there. If they had barest minimum human decency so as to stand against genocide, they would not be where and as they are. Even many children, even the "apolitical," etc... have considerable ability to realize and stand against such horror, and yet they refuse- I would even say that they fight against their basic human instincts of social empathy (or lack it altogether). With the exception of those too young (and even then, very sheltered) to have seen and understood the real world, none of them have any excuse; they have made retaining their place of privilege (or ambitions towards it) relative to and in support of the exploitative, genocidal, warmongering meat grinder of empire the hill they want to die on. And they will be damned for it, whether directly, by history, or their causing the end of human existence and history altogether.

At least from my anecdotal experience (lived at different times with separate parents and both sets of grandparents after turning 18) I think most people who would expect rent from their kids would be total scumbags and likely burger-brained.

The only one who asked for it, also conveniently kicked me out once for a short time on a misunderstanding (thought I was lying about having a job- or at least that's the claim, nowadays I don't know if that was just part of the plan- uh, typical narcissist stuff). They'd also always threaten to refuse the rent (and boot me out) if I didn't go to church, etc... and of course transitioning was a no-go. Talked to them about it much later (nowadays we're NC) and they said they had never even considered that it could be rental abuse... they're still a shithead but at least I don't think they're charging my siblings rent now

CAN IT BE RESOLVED WITHOUT RESORTING TO THE CUCK PIT?

Nope, don't think so. These people would be going "well, at least Hitler supports animal rights, regulated smoking, kept up law and order, and made the trains run on time" 80~ years ago.

I honestly can't muster up a single speck of sympathy or common feelings of humanity for those who will openly work with genocide. If they're aware of what they're doing (and it's nigh impossible to not be aware) there is no excuse and they deserve to go to the camps they will happily throw the Palestinians and whoever else comes next into to maintain their comfort.

it's easy to imagine golfers screaming at him about getting goose shit on their shoes – or being chased by vicious lil honkers away from a ball that landed too close to a nest, a mental image I find delightful

Not all heroes wear capes

What could be a more basic and foundational need and right than survival? Klanmala is actively participating in the destruction of those rights in Gaza as we speak. Literal industrial genocide is ongoing, anyone who claims otherwise is willfully ignorant.

Or are you willing to look the other way and sweep the Palestinians (and many others who Klanmala and the Democratic party as well as the bipartisan USA has victimized and will continue to victimize) under the rug, so long as you get yours?

Also- if so, if you are a supporter of genocide, why the hell should I care about whatever the hell you "need?"

My condolences to anyone living in the geographic boundaries of ""Alberta"" (as someone who was raised there and has since escaped to equally shitty pastures)