It is very common for buildings in Iran to be surrounded by high cement walls and fully enclosed courtyards, even private residences. This is partly due to their oppressive regime and a desire to keep having parties and generally normal private indoor lives.
What are the geopolitical implications of him striking Iran? Will any allies likely retaliate?
I would think Iran would be on its own, given it’s people are also attacking the regime from the inside.
This is some BS propaganda from the Iranian regime. It isn’t believable at all.
Everyone who knows an Iranian, knows that real Iranians want their regime outright assassinated by any country willing to do it.
What is the similarity? Just dead people?
This is a government killing its own people. Israel has been embroiled in a conflict with an outside nation, albeit a conflict of disproportionate forces.
Why do strangers photograph and spend time thinking about what other people do around them when they have zero contextual understanding of what is going on in those other people’s lives?
I’m pretty sure this photo tells us more about the photographer and OP than it tells us about the kid in the photo, because we can see more of what the photographer sees(and thus understand more of what the photographer is doing/implying) rather than what the kid is seeing/doing.
Yeah, that’s what apps like “jobright” do.
All language is a mental model, shared between the speaker and the audience. Math without any context like this is just a language like any other, encoded for two or more parties to communicate something abstract.
If the speaker and the audience both believe two plus two equals five, then it is true.
“Five” might look like “4” and be called “Five” or perhaps “Two” is instead written “2.5”, but the truth of the original statement is only actually dependent on the shared mental model of the speaker/audience.
There is no telling what the objective meaning could be, if there was ever an objective meaning at all. For example, the entire meme itself could be a password that means “buy Bitcoin”.
Or for another example, two plus two is five if this is a shorthand for two 1.25lb baskets of strawberries plus two 1.25lb baskets of strawberries being equal to five 1lb baskets of strawberries.
You might say “Hey! That’s adding outside context! Not fair, it’s nonsense!” but consider that the original statement didn’t specify any context for the numbers at all. What are the numbers in reality, without any context? They represent nothing but the concepts they represent until they relate to a physical context anyway, just like any other fragment of communication.
Have you noticed what’s going on with Marjorie Taylor Greene?
There is a small wing of the extreme right wing that is kind of like that “tea party” movement after the last Bush administration that is starting to question whether Trump has their best interests in mind.
If that continues to grow, and I do not believe Marjorie can stop it now that she’s started it, then America really is on a bonafide track to violent uprising. That momentum is why there is urgency over the upcoming open enrollment period, because doubling annualized healthcare costs will activate a LOT of conservatives when they see the whole year’s bill in front of them.
As much as left-wing politics makes people mobilize to march peacefully, it’s usually been the extreme right that has the weapons to take it from protest to open murder in the streets.
I think that administration officials know this, and that is why they are afraid of the protests.
They fear their own supporters if they become disaffected and they know that a bunch of lefties peacefully marching is going to signal permission for one of their own to start shooting(stochastically, statistically, not intentional permission nor official support for violence).
Oligarchs in America have the dangerous desire to enjoy American society using their very mortal fleshy bodies. Unfortunately, that requires enough support of the populace to not get murdered.
No, it often cannot. That’s what I mean by “fully enclosed”, and I can see how you might have thought I just meant walls and no roof. I should have been more clear, but I was trying to differentiate between just having walls vs having full private enclosure for recreational spaces, which is common in Iran and also in a good chunk of other countries.
Schools or gyms often do have roofs as well, with vents or small/high windows for air circulation but no way to actually see inside because physical privacy is especially valued in Iran - not just because of the government but also because of cultural and religious traditions.