Only time will alter your vision

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me: no live organism can continue to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality

Over The Waves by Setsuko Matsushima

Except my phone unexpectedly broke shortly thereafter, and I lost those pictures forever. It’s been like 15 years, and I still think of that little wall hanging quilt and feel a little sad that I’ll never see it again.

A few months ago, I was on a tram when I met an Afghan woman speaking Persian. Since Persian is my first language, I joined her conversation. She shared her hope that one day Afghan women will be able to protest against the Taliban, just as women in Iran have done.

Today, Afghan women are showing incredible courage by standing up against policies that try to control their bodies and their lives. These policies, introduced since 2021, have included restrictions such as revoking access to education and limiting women’s presence in public spaces.

Khamenei is dead, but the IRGC has been attacking Persian Gulf countries and Cyprus, and maybe more. What I have been feeling is that their ideology is obsessed with the wish for martyrdom — they love and are proud to be killed by the US and Israel. The IRGC themselves are enemies of “life.” That’s why they killed Iranian people in 2022 when people were in the streets saying “Woman, Life, Freedom.”

They're killing and want to be killed someday. They don’t listen to anyone, don’t care, and aren’t responsible toward people. They build a school on military sites and then shoot it themselves to play the “Israel killing children” card. Oh, those poor children — and those poor people who have to hear the sounds of strikes now and don’t have access to the internet because there is a chance the Islamic regime will put people in front of strikes and sell its propaganda to those white leftists who only learned about Palestinian concepts in the last six years.

But this is war, and Iranian people are going to be traumatized if, after the war, the IRGC still exists. I don’t understand the IRGC’s language. When they talk, it feels like it’s not even Arabic, Persian, Kurdish, or Turkish. It’s the language of ideology. They're alienated and want to kill everyone, as they support Hamas because of ideology — proud of it and wishing to be killed by the US and Israel — not for Gaza’s people to live.

What can you do? Just don’t share false narratives and propaganda in the first place. The IRGC isn’t protecting Iranian people (they can, but they don’t). Instead of blaming Iranian people who are happy or who "want war," listen to Iranian people's narratives about war and revolution. if you’re not historically context-sensitive and aware and truly concerned about imperialism, maybe you should have convinced your own people not to vote for Trump or other power instead of educating us about it:))).

Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real: Nature.com