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

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[-] postgeographix@lemmy.world 22 points 4 months ago

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

[-] circuscritic@lemmy.ca 23 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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.

[-] postgeographix@lemmy.world 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

[-] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 18 points 4 months ago

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

[-] postgeographix@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago

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

[-] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 13 points 4 months ago

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