[lbo-talk] Iran's Youth Movements

[Jim Straub]

I know this is an unsophisticated way to make judgements, but a great deal
of my willingness to extend the benefit of doubt to Yoshie's team in Iran
went out the window when I saw that pic in the NYT of the masked cop making
the Iranian hipster kid drink out of the butt-cleaning can there.  Defending
hipsters is not something I find myself doing often but, clearly, me and
mine would be in that shame parade were we there.

I mean this current crackdown sounds awful, and the guy has delivered alot
more on his promises to bolster Hezbullah with the oil money as opposed to
their domestic poor.   Iran rationing gasoline?  jesus!  I'm not the most
informed about the situation there, but, there does seem to be a discrepancy
between the performance of different populist islamic forces.  hezbullah and
sadr both seem to be doing admirable things in very tough situations, but
iran and hamas... jeez.


> Isn't that reassuring! Good thing all those unhappy troublemakers are
> being spirited off to jail.
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> I'm now getting three copies of all these things you broadcast; if
> you hadn't gotten thrown off PEN-L, I'd be getting four. Why don't
> you pause the one-way communications for a while and actually converse?
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