america's new theme song:

america looks weak, cowardly and stupid.

the united states accomplished absolutely nothing, and this war was a waste of time. they are running away rather than carrying out regime change, leaving the israelis in an impossible situation.

trump should be ashamed of himself for failing to follow through, and creating a mess for the next administration to deal with.

the terrorist death cult in iran must be destroyed by any means possible. this is now more pressing than it's ever been.

trump is threatening to destroy iranian civilization.

the truth is that the iranians have already been completely wiped out several times and bounced back and that tearing down the islamic state would aid in the return of iranian civilization, which is currently in a period of submission to arab colonialism.

- there are no clear records to explain how the persians destroyed the elamites, but elam disappears from history after an assyrian campaign against them. when the persians and medes reappear, they are a new ethnic group in control of a devastated elamite state. they are initially seen as elamites.

- the greeks wiped the persians out and set up a new greco-persian empire called seleucia to replace them. 

- the seleucids, who were seen as greek colonizers, were overthrown by the parthians, who were a new iranian tribe from the plateau and not persians.

- the parthians were badly defeated by the romans under trajan and septimus severus and while the romans did not annex persia because it was seen as outside of the greco-roman cultural sphere, it did not ever recover. the parthians were overthrown by the sassanids, who were persians, like the achaemenids.

- the sassanid state was demolished by the romans under heraclius, but he again refrained from annexing it, despite nearly sacking the capital. the romans at this stage believed that history was over and wanted to maintain territorial integrity. really. they just wanted things to go back to how they were.

- however, the roman victory in the last roman-persian war (along with the plague) left the persians so weak that they were completely wiped out by the barbarian arabs, who completely toppled the persian state and converted them to islam.

- unlike the romans, the arabs began to aggressively colonize mesopotamia and western iran (the plague had recently depopulated it). western iran was then slowly kurdified and the kurds emerge as the dominant cultural and ruling power. but, a series of persian dynasties did slowly emerge in the east and reconstitute itself, including the saffarids and the samanids.

- the persians were then again wiped out by invaders, this time by turks invading from the east, who set up the ghaznavid empire and then were replaced by the seljuk turks, who invaded western iran and reunited it. they were replaced by mamluk turks, who created khwarazm, who were assimilated deeply into persia, but were turks.

- the mongols completely destroyed the turks, and in the process recreated persian identity, but that required killing millions and millions and millions of people. a mongol controlled persian state called the il khanate emerges, which falls apart and reconstitutes as the timurid empire, before beng replaced by the safavids, an iranian dynasty. even after 500 years of rule by turks and mongols, the persians still re-emerge.

- however, they are destroyed by the turks a second time in the mid 1700s, and the turks manage to maintain control until the early 1900s, when the persians re-emerge yet again.

- many people in and outside iran consider the 1979 islamic revolution to be a return of arabic colonialism in iran, and consider the struggle against the islamic republic to be a struggle for persian nationalism. overthrowing the islamic state means bringing back persian identity, once again. if the islamic state is defeated, it will allow for a return of persian civilization, not signal the destruction of it.

my language has been very careful.

the iranian state - the mullahs. the islamic republic - has no future. it is a matter of time before the state is destroyed and functionally erased from history. nobody will remember much from this period, when it is over. it will be a blip in time - a failed state.

but this is not the destruction of iranian civilization, but rather a pre-requisite for it's return, as the islamic state is holding iranian identity and iranian culture hostage and in submission, and abolishing it will allow them to reassert themselves and rebuild.

this is worth watching:

bill c-9 does a number of things but there are two things to take particular note of:

- it bans protests in front of buildings. the law says:

Bill C-9 would amend the Criminal Code to create a new intimidation offence for conduct intended to provoke a state of fear in a person in order to impede their access to:

a building or structure, or part of a building or structure, that is primarily used for religious worship or by an “identifiable group” for administrative, social, cultural or sports activities or events, as an educational institution (including a daycare centre) or as a residence for seniors; or a cemetery.

An “identifiable group” is defined in subsection 318(4) of the Criminal Code as a group distinguished by colour, race, religion, national or ethnic origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or mental or physical disability.

In addition, the Bill would create a new offence for intentionally obstructing or interfering with another person’s lawful access to the same places protected under the new intimidation offence. The obstruction offence would include a statutory exception so that it does not apply to people who are at or near the protected places for the sole purpose of obtaining or communicating information. The new intimidation and obstruction offences would be punishable by a maximum of 10 years imprisonment on indictment or two years less a day by summary proceeding.

- it eliminates the religious exemption for hate speech. currently, you can argue that hate speech is justified if it's a part of a religious text, like the parts of the bible that call for stoning gay people. the bill deletes that. in theory, that would mean that reading the bible in public could generate hate speech charges, if it's done in a way that poses a threat to an identifiable group and is meant to intimidate them. you'd have to be doing it on purpose, with the intent to intimidate. this has recently been a problem with muslim groups in canadian cities.

- the bill also makes it an offence to display symbols associated with terrorist groups in public, but i don't expect that to withstand a constitutional challenge and consider it dead on arrival. this issue has already been adjudicated ad naseum and this is in fact settled law - this is protected speech, and the government is wasting everybody's time trying to criminalize it. the court will tear this down in seconds without a notwithstanding clause, and there isn't one. so i'm not wasting bytes on that. i just hope it's not a hamas symbol that overturns the law, but it probably will be. yes - this would make flying a hamas flag an offense in canada, punishable by up to ten years. but nobody is going to go to jail for this.

there has been a lot of conservative opposition in canada to the second part of the law, which i actually support as long overdue. if we're going to have hate crime legislation in canada, it should be written to target religious groups, not to exempt them. religion is the primary and dominant source of hate in the world and the entity most in need of regulation in order to eliminate hate, because it causes almost all of it. the idea of exempting it is ridiculous; it should be what the law is intended to stop.

there has been almost no discussion of the first part of the law, which i find more concerning and staunchly oppose. this law, which is in the senate, would criminalize teacher's strikes or nurse's strikes and give scabs a legal right to break a picket line. striking workers could be sent to jail for ten years for enforcing a picket line and history shows that this is how the law would be used, not to arrest muslims for blocking a synagogue. the scope of the law is so broad that it would criminalize virtually any assembly rights. it's very clearly unconstitutional, but nobody has even criticized it at all. the focus has been on defending the supposed rights of religious bigots to use their sacred texts to spread hatred.

if you zoom out and look at the kinds of laws being passed in this country both in quebec and by the federal government, it indicates that there's a developing crisis in this country. canada is a secular society that did not enforce a rigorous enough immigration policy for far too long, and it's generated deep social fissures that the legislature is struggling to address. it's worth being clear that what needs to be addressed is the root cause, which is not adhering close enough to the points system. we need to go back to better screening for secular values on the way in, so we don't need these kinds of laws explicitly passed to protect our culture and enforce our way of life.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/bill-c-9-anti-hate-religious-exemption-hate-speech-9.7142455

if you want to pray in your basement with the doors and windows closed, that's your choice. i think you're retarded, but that's up to you to work through.

but i maintain that i have no obligation to tolerate you, and i have a positive right to be completely free from you. i should never have to see, hear or know about you in any way at all.

quebec is a step ahead of the rest of the continent in implementing much needed checks to ensure that the general population, including but not limited to children, maintains the right to live free from religious coercion.

in a truly secular society, normal people should never be forced to interact with, acknowledge or tolerate any kind of religion in any minimal way whatsoever. 

religion has no valid place in the modern world. i applaud quebec for being a leader and encourage the rest of the continent to start catching up.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-secularism-bill-9.7151637