• finitebanjodeleted by creator
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    3 months ago

    I feel for the innocent civilians who did not ask for or deserve this.

    But I feel nothing for the ones who stood beside the brutal regime and made more enemies than competent allies.

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      3 months ago

      Rumour is the regime is just going to move out of Tehran to somewhere else in the country, so unfortunately they may escape the consequences of their poor governing. Unless the people rise up against them of course.

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      3 months ago

      You’re right, Ayatollah Khomeini should have… made it rain somehow. It’s all also Russia and China’s fault!!

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        Damming rivers with runoffs into salt plains and salt desert, funneling water into agriculture for gdp, and making enemies in every direction was probably a really bad move, ngl.

        If they hadn’t done any one particular thing in that list then things wouldn’t be so bad, now.

        Heads up, desertification is spreading rapidly through that region due to climate change. It’s not going to rain well every year, mate.

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          Damming rivers with runoffs into salt plains and salt desert, funneling water into agriculture for gdp, and making enemies in every direction was probably a really bad move, ngl

          Yeah, how dare they seek food security without imports in the face of international embargo.

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            3 months ago

            GDP means Gross Domestic Product which means they were EXPORTING THE FOOD and actually a huge amount of spices such as Safron. You could argue that they are just really really really bad at math but the result is the same, incompetence leading to drought.

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                GDP measures consumption, government spending, and exports minus imports.

                EDIT in response to the reply, since the post is locked now: If the amount of consumption is not static but instead increasing leading to GDP growth then that would just be yet another mismanagement leading to drought, consumption should never change because it’s assumed the people are eating food, but that aside for a moment do you really thing the Iranians are sustaining themselves off of rare spices? “The children, they crave the saffron.”

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        3 months ago

        But, are they wrong?

        Seriously, someone can be the epitome of what you despise and still be correct about something.