[reactordev]

I was just saying this to someone this morning. Iran’s theocracy was the only one that has withstood the Middle East political wars in Jordan, Syria, Afghanistan, etc.

To rephrase it… if The Middle East was the UK, Iran would be British. If the Middle East was the US. Iran would be California.

[quotz]

> The Middle East was the UK, Iran would be British.

Did you mean England perhaps, not "British"?

[krapht]

Why? Is Scotland innocent?

[ndsipa_pomu]

Scotland is almost certainly innocent, though the Scottish people may not be.

Anyhow, the worst crimes of colonialism/genocide were mainly conducted by the English (including invading/killing plenty of Scottish, Welsh and Irish people).

[breppp]

Jordan political system is much older than Iran, as well as the Saudis and others. Iran theocracy is a new phenomena in the Middle East, ushering the implementation era of political Islam, later continued by ISIS, Hamas and the milder Qatar and current Turkey

[reactordev]

Not debating who came first. I’m also not debating that Saudi’s are equivalent to the French to the Iranians (if they were England in my UK analogy, or Texas for the US one).

I also don’t think that, in general, there’s any animosity there just talking size and influence over the region. Iran and Saudi are/were it. It’s a really interesting dynamic of faith, tradition, authoritarianism, and manipulation.

[animuchan]

Another good analogy would be, said theocracy is (was?) like a very bad piece of legacy code, impossible to refactor, until the entire feature gets thrown in the trash.

[reactordev]

That’s a greater analogy

[dfc]

I was with you until you said California. You think that Californians are understand Southern or Midwestern culture?

[reactordev]

Not about culture. Size and GDP.