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Reformist Masoud Pezeshkian wins Iran presidential election (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Hope he stays alive

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Dude, Khatami and Rouhani are still alive, what the everliving blaze are you on about?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 months ago

how many are not alive lol

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

It's just complete ignorance of the Iranian political system and at some level, a buy-in on the media's relentless anti-Iranian propaganda.

Far be it from me to defend a theocracy, or Mullahs, but...wait, I won't they're horrible.

However, Iran's theocracy is far less insidious than the Gulf Monarchies, so I guess it's better by default?

Oh, and no candidate is allowed to run unless they are signed off on by the Ayatollah, so there's that caveat as well.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

True. Similar to the Democrat primaries, haha.

But it is pretty well understood that once you get on to the candidate list, then it is a really free election. You can see from the Khamenei twitter account that he is salty AF about this result, but he honours it

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's a form of light doomerism. You see it on reddit a lot

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (2 children)

More and more I feel we just transported the worst of reddit to lemmy. All the crap, none of the painstakingly built community

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

That's a real lemmy.world take lol

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Yeah... Well it's easy to transplant. All you need to do is show up in comments and reproduce the culture. We all know it. Some of us are even amused or comforted by it.

Whereas building up for example a niche community takes concerted effort, mostly thankless, over years.

Still worth it ofc

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

"reproduce the culture"

I'm pretty sure culture doesn't work that way, it is built.

Reddit's culture was built on a site for tech guys. Lemmy is built on all the rage that came from reddit.

Our culture is the rage hivemind.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I know. It's Saturday, let me grumble in peace lol.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Haha very fair