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Cake day: July 4th, 2023

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  • The west will now have to make a judgment on whether to help Pezeshkian or maintain the blanket of sanctions due to the continued escalation of Iran’s nuclear programme, and its support for Hezbollah in Lebanon and Yemen’s Houthi rebels.

    Iran is enriching uranium at near weapons-grade levels and maintains a stockpile large enough to build several nuclear weapons, but does not yet have the warheads or missile technology.

    It is also providing Russia with drones for use in Ukraine. Pezeshkian’s second foreign policy adviser alongside Zarif was a former ambassador to Moscow, Mehdi Sanei.

    He will only have an impact on sanctions if he takes meaningful actions to stop nuclear enrichment. That’s the main reason for the sanctions. The drone supply isn’t helping either.




  • The best way to convince these people of reality is to just say “You really believe that?” and “That sounds complicated” when they talk about it. Or you can laugh in a friendly way and say “Who told you that? They’re trying to trick you.”

    These people respond to emotions, not facts. Just tell them someone is tricking them. They want to have friends and special knowledge.















  • Thrush understands the appeal of vouchers for parents who want a leg up for their kid. But, he told me, “we need to be looking at how we’re preparing all students to be successful, not just my student.”

    This is a great example of how conservatives think. They are not inherently selfish; they think about how things benefit the larger group.

    The difference is, they think of the world as a hierarchy with different groups at different levels. Anyone threatening that hierarchy is bad, so they defend it. When this man says “we’re preparing all students to be successful” he means white Christian students in his particular area. That’s part of his group.