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Ok, to prove to my husband that this is more a European device than a U.S. device I am going to need more non-US people to reblog this.
Do not reblog for science. No science will be happening. Reblog to help me prove a point!
(If I am right I will show him this poll. If I am wrong he will never know this happened)
I am from the U.S. and I know what it is BUT ONLY BECAUSE my wife was raised in Europe!!!
i think the world doesn’t know what it really means to live in a theocratic dictatorship. Let me tell you about our experiences living in the islamic regime of iran.
1. Your parents were born to muslim parents so they’re automatically muslim. You’re automatically a muslim too. You didn’t choose your religion and you can’t opt out of it or you will be executed.
2. The compulsory hijab law makes you a criminal if you choose not to wear hijab even tho you didn’t choose to be a muslim and you don’t consider yourself a muslim but the regime has forced you into that role whether you like it or not. And when you ‘break that law’, they can do with you as they please.
3. little girls as young as 7 yrs old are forced to wear hijab at school even tho the islam itself says the age is 9. and all the schools are gender segregated so imagine how they force you to get used to hijab even when you’re just surrounded by other girls. And all day long at school they tell you horrible stories about what will happen to you in hell if someone sees even a strand of your hair.
4. the regime modifies all the textbooks, story books, cartoons and movies to represent the ideal woman with full on hijab. The iranian media is ordered to photoshop every photo of a woman that may be showing a little skin. And if they’re iranian, no hair is supposed to be seen or that will be photoshopped away. Women are mostly excluded from billboards and tv commercials.
5. imagine going to work or meeting up with a friend when suddenly the morality police kidnap you in broad daylight and force you into a van to take you to a station where they will treat you like a criminal and if you don’t agree to get humiliated and do as they say, they will put you in prison. And in case of Mahsa Amini and so many more before her, they will beat you to death. My sister was barely 18 when she got kidnapped and they didn’t let her call home and she’d been so fucking scared and we had no idea where she was. Imagine all the psychological trauma.
6. If you’re in a car and not wearing hijab they will fine you and seize your car. So when u get into a taxi the driver will ask you to keep your hijab on otherwise they’ll get fined. And if you refuse they’ll ask you to get off the car.
7. And its not just about hijab. In Ramadan, they get even more vicious. If they catch you eating or even drinking water on the street they will give you lashes as punishment and even imprison you for breaking the law. If you work in a state-owned company it’s even worse. They will close the cafeteria and take away the water dispensers. All restaurants are banned from delivering food before iftar. It’s a fucking mess. Everyone has to pretend they’re fasting or they’ll be severely punished.
8. And how could I forget about this! iranian women are banned from singing! the islamic regime prohibits women’s singing voices to be heard by men so imagine the horror of having 50% of the population banned from ever becoming a singer. If they identify a female singer in iran, they will take her to jail and force her to repent her sins in the most humiliating way so that she will never dare sing again.
9. And every time the regime gets wind of a private gathering of men and women trying to have fun and live their fucking private lives, the police crash the party and take everyone to jail bc the Islamic regime bans iranian men and women from having fun.
10. Did you know that the islamic regime doesn’t allow women’s faces to be printed on their obituaries or headstones? They put a flower for our faces instead and if they see a headstone with a woman’s face printed on it they’ll smash it to pieces. That’s how religious dictatorship continues to oppress and erase women even after their deaths.
11. For some reason, women aren’t allowed to ride motorcycles and the government won’t issue any license for them. In some cities, women are barred from riding a bicycle.
So if you see Islam has become for many iranians a symbol of oppression and torture and discrimination, that’s why. The regime uses islam as a weapon to silence and punish anyone who opposes them. You can love islam all you want from the safety of your home in a free country and talk about how kind and benevolent the religion is, but in iran, it’s a whole different story.
Our economy is fucked. All govt officials are corrupt as fuck. Most websites are banned in iran. Even tumblr is banned. The world has cut the iranian ppl from many services. We don’t have intl credit cards like visa card. Amazon doesn’t do delivery to iran. We cant get netflix, spotify or even a gamepass subscription. we don’t get any Apple services here. iran isn’t listed as a country you could choose when signing up for a lot of services. and when we decide to leave iran and escape this hellhole, every country out there will make it sooo much harder for us to get a visa just bc we had the misfortune to be born in iran at the wrong time.
This is the story of iran for the past 44 years. Held hostage by a corrupt regime that uses religion to suppress and torture the people and being abandoned by the rest of the world bc our lives don’t matter.
Please be our voice. Once they shut down the internet completely and silence our voice, they will start slaughtering us to stifle the protests just like they did in 2019. Please help us. We want this fucking regime gone.
but theyre the leaders of the Axis Of ResistanceTM!! <3<3<3 stunning and brave!!
wow. it's really finally hitting me: a self-described Jew Hunt was organized and carried out. and people justified and celebrated it. holiest of shits.
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a jewish man, who i didnt know, came up to me and started making small talk. he told me to be careful and to cover up my kippah and tuck in my magen david. I told him that I feel pretty safe in this town, to which he said that nowhere is safe for us now. he told me he had just come back from paris right before the amsterdam pogrom began.
he also told me that he ran a cafe in town (I've been there, good food) and invited me to come eat there. I think I might on Friday.
anyway if youre wondering what small talk is like for jews, this is it. just the saddest things possible followed by an invitation for food
We eat we live we find joy and light. If the Jews in the 1930s ever celebrated we must today. It’s never so bad that there’s no possibility for life.
if you hired a galapagos finch as a linecook it would perfectly evolve a beak to optimally smoke cigarettes behind the dumpsters
Mass deportation is a form of ethnic cleansing. Do you understand.
i am an indigenous minority in russia and i can't agree more on that.
russians didn't "peacefully conquer" volga, ural, siberia, far east and caucasus. they ethnically cleansed it.
"mass deportation of crimean tatars" it was actually a genocide.
"mass deportation of kavkazi people" it was actually a genocide.
mass deportations are not safe for those who are being deported. they suffer famine, the lack of sanitary norms, infections, lack of water and medicine, and other anti-human conditions. and i promise mass deportation are intentionally designed to be like that. they are designed to cull as much of those who are deported as possible.
if you support mass deportations of anyone, block me so i don't have to. and fuck you
sort of a tangent, but the extreme levels of misogyny in regards to the Mary boycott thing are important to note too - and it’s the double punch of antisemitism and misogyny combined, which Jewish women have suffered in varying ways throughout history. Jewish women are demonic witches, ugly, undesirable harpies, or exotic sexual objects. the slut shaming happening to the actress, and by extension to all Israeli women (mocking the casting of an Israeli Jewish woman as holy/virginal/pure, implying that Jewish women are dirty and unusually promiscuous, etc). something about this that should be very clear: it is rape culture. it is the same line of thinking, in fact bolsters, the denial of the brutal sexual assaults carried out against women of all ages, from young girls to elderly, on 10/7 (and the complete disregard that men were also mutilated and assaulted. Jewish men additionally suffer from specific strains of demonization, belittlement, and stereotyping connected to their Jewishness). saying Mary had to be anything but the Jewish woman that she was is primarily based in the idea that Jewish women are particularly wicked, vulgar and marked by sin. it’s ghastly medieval thinking to see coming from anyone, much less people masquerading as progressives.
"urban indian series," 2007, chromogenic prints, depicting images of a young man, the artist terrance houle, going through his daily life dressed in dance regalia.
On what fucking planet is a premeditated pogrom literally called a "Jew Hunt" by the perpetrators "football hooliganism"??? Especially when the football fans in question returned to Israel *days* ago and the violent targeting of Jews and Jewish businesses in Amsterdam is still ongoing.
Be so fucking serious right now.
Elon is recruiting randos from Twitter to compete for the chance to work themselves to death figuring out how to take away your welfare.
Nothing says efficiency like creating a whole ass new department with two co-chairs.
the new honda odyssey will tear your children limb from limb.
*slowly reaches for the popcorn*
