/siberia/ - Off-topic

Shah was such a virgin he couldn't keep his money from spilling out of his bags.

It's actually remarkable how backwards Iran is. And I blame the US for that. No coup against Mossadegh in 1953 = No Shah. No Shah = no 1979 revolution. The clerical reactionaries would never have come to power. The Ayatollah was the Lenin of reactionaries. He made reaction look badass… I mean just look at that poster.

>>761713
>And I blame the US for that.
That is geopolitics.
Soviets and the British also invaded Iran and made Reza Shah abdicate for pro-German influence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Soviet_invasion_of_Iran
Which was the same with Mossadegh – to also secure economic and political interests.
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TBH, when it comes to the Shah of Iran and criticism there, at least this isn't Lavader sperging out about price controls and the bazaaris–(He was always a bit of a lolbert tier constitutional monarchist… but Shah regime was basically actually existing corporatism, one party state and everything–for what it really is, not the Aristotelian misconception of corporatism/guild system they like to praise–grumble, corporatism was always state corporatism to begin with, not a partnership of clans).
It's the divine right of the free market with monarchists like Lavader, Aristotle's food argument and marketplace of ideas appeal to democratic input, muh decentralization and muh partnership of clans (which they make a guise of "guild corporatism"), muh middle class, it's all Aristotle's Politics.
A bit of a off-topic tangent, but monarchists these days… we're totally swamped with right libertarian sentiment… It's dumb too because the Shah of Iran's White Revolution distributed land and property to begin with and was fairly Liberal enough… but Lavader calls it Communism… "Monarcho-Communism" –and there's some truth to it being a one-party state, but monarchy was always aligned with a unitary mode of politics, that is what they don't understand.
Honestly, Lavader… I never quite liked him as an absolute monarchist because early on before he was popular I remember Lavader being a staunch constitutional monarchist and opposing my politics…
…But his Medieval video also irked me because he brought up Aquinas to greenlight tyrannicide theory and left it to private judgement to determine this… in spite of Aquinas' warning against private judgement in De Regno…
I hate being on the rightwing sometimes… all of them glaze Aristotle… this is why I sympathize with Hobbes so hard… it's as if I were alive in his era, people never really changed and stopped doing that…
Me and Lavader represent two sides of the monarchist spectrum.
No matter how much I scream in the end, the majority of the monarchist community is going that way.

didn't know they had eiffel-similar tower in iran