For the revolution and what led up to it, I recommend The Pride and the Fall by Anthony Parsons (probably have to go to a decent university library for this one), Shah of Shahs by Ryszard Kapuscinski, and King of Kings by Scott Anderson. For the subsequent period there's Revolutionary Iran by Michael Axworthy and Children of Paradise by Laura Secor. Also you might like Soul of Iran by Afshin Molavi.
HMK2
13d ago
Why are the Torres Strait Islanders always mentioned and stapled together with the Aborigines in these events? They have a completely different culture and way of life, and live so far from any Australian towns of any size that I'd be willing to bet 90+ % of Australians have never seen one in person.
HMK2
1mo ago
I was under the impression that occupying the Gulf islands would make it easier than it already is, given the US' complete naval and air superiority, to destroy every boat, missile and drone coming from Iran - and that the current plan, given the redeployment of ground troops to the Gulf, was to do that.
The UAE has promised to help too; I assume they have minesweepers.
Thus the strait can be forced open. Continued US and Israeli bombing of launch sites, military factories and IRGC positions would make it so they could no longer strike back, and would either have to wave the white flag offering major concessions - or hopefully the Artesh would get fed up and turn their guns on what's left of the IRGC, seize power and call for peace. That's what I'm hoping for.
HMK2
1mo ago
I remember a subreddit simulator thread where it was just repetitions of "Rabid dog" and "It's just a normal dog." over and over. Stuff that someone like Joyce or Gertrude Stein might write.
HMK2
1mo ago
That's the sort of nonsensical stuff that people in your dreams say. My dreams anyway.
HMK2
1mo ago
Is there an AI app that can assign Library of Congress call numbers to all 2000+ books in my Kindle library, then sort them in that order?
HMK2
1mo ago
All of Pargin's books have interesting titles but, from what I see on tvtropes, are filled with a type of humor I don't really care for. I'd see a new title on the shelf, start to pick it up and then go, "Oh, not him again. FFS."
HMK2
1mo ago
And postponed until after market close on Friday. Who the hell even knows at this point. DJT has contradicted himself multiple times in recent days.
HMK2
1mo ago
There were a couple of decades where all the books on immigration in the public library's catalog were from 1992-97.
HMK2
2mo ago
In my opinion, the 1924 immigration restriction act should have been the beginning of that sort of thing for the US: the gradual melding of the European ethnic groups into a single White American entity. (Scottish, as perceived as a separate ethnicity in the US, actually did vanish sometime in the early postwar era).
But the Hart-Cellar act, by neglecting to set hard, very low annual caps on non-European immigration, blew up the chance to have a single ethnic group composing 90% of the population.
HMK2
3mo ago
Hasn't top-level soccer been doing that for decades? Tons of players who have no connection with the country of the team for which they play.
HMK2
3mo ago
Sounds a bit like a caricature British name such as "General Sir Humphrey George Smith-Smythe-Smith, OBE, VC"
HMK2
3mo ago
The pre-war stuff was a lot more interesting. Jimmie Davis, all those yodeling cowboys. (The W part of CW pretty much completely died circa 1960.)
HMK2
4mo ago
He's Romanian, but not white? Is he a Gypsy? I've never heard of a Gypsy with an M.D.
HMK2
6mo ago
... but how do you know the video is real and not an AI deepfake? Isn't it possible now, for instance, to gin up a video of Charlie Kirk robbing a liquor store?
HMK2
7mo ago
https://old.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2F8s58fo0kjrtf1.jpeg
The manager/franchisee of a Lush store in Chicago put this sign up. AFAIK the entire Chicago subreddit agrees with this sentiment.
I hope she runs and gets curbstomped in a 3-to-1 blowout.
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