Amir

شخصاً میل به خودکشی ندارم، اما دیگر امکان زندگی هم ندارم. نه امکان کار هست نه تحصیل و نه اپلای. چون نه بودجه کافی هست، نه اینترنت، نه موقعیت و نه امید. در پاسخ به «چه خبر» فقط یک جمله دارم: روزهام رو شب می‌کنم.

@mojgank2 برو لهستان

تا از رضا پهلوی انتقاد کنی، می‌گن «خب گزینه‌تون چیه؟» این سؤال از اساس مغلطه‌اس چون فرض می‌گیره سیاست یعنی انتخاب فرد تو سیاست مدرن، گذار دموکراتیک «نهادمحوره» نه فردمحور. فرآیندمحوره، نه منجی‌محور. سرنگونی دیکتاتور مهم نیست، باید ساختار دیکتاتوری حذف بشه ادامه در بعدی

academic downfall due to bad mental health hurts the most

من جدی خسته شدم از خایه‌مالی این مردم. از مسلمونایی که محمد رو می‌پرستن، از عرزشی های که خامنه‌ای رو می‌پرستن، از سلطنت‌طلب هایی که رضا پهلوی رو می‌پرستن. بسه ایران به گا رفت. تا کی دنبال چوپونید؟ فقط فحاشی و تفرقه، انگار ایران ارث پدری کسی هست. من دیگه خسته شدم نشستم.

@sharghzadeh We are extremely easily manipulated by our emotions.

کرم تخریب

Supporting a regime change war (or whatever tf this is going to be) instigated by an illegitimate American government is not just obviously wrong, it’s lazy. It disgusts me. I’ll remember everyone I know who lines up behind this.

آسون‌ترین و امن‌ترین کار ممکن الان سلطنت‌طلب بودنه. در آینده اصلا مسئولیت اجتماعی برای فرد نداره. خیلی راحت میری پشت منطق اکثریت قایم می‌شی و تهش اگه چیزی شد میگی همه می‌خواستن و منم خواستم. نه طرد میشی نه چیزی، کثیف‌ترین آدما هم الان یه جاویدشاه میگن و به کل تطهیر میشن.

من جدی متوجه شدم شماها فتیش دارید. فتیش شاه ولیعهدی تحت فرمان بودن رعیت بودن و تحقیر شدن!

I have for a long time said that a part of Iranian society (especially diaspora) suffer from a deep identity crisis and we are observing this in action. The reason they are now world leading in nose jobs is very much connected to why they distance themselves from their traditional attires (never been to a Persian wedding with anyone wearing these, except minorities) and from religion and why they wave Israeli flags on their own protests: they associate these patterns with being "European" and modern in contrast to oriental backwardness. (This group is now clueless to why Europeans are trying to revive Christianity or support Palestine) Of course, you can't eradicate these stuff without having to fill it with some other identity and that's where the new soup is made of monarchism, Zoroastrianism and Cyrus the great. They want to imagine an identity completely outside of their neighbors (they don't want any association to backward people like Afghans, Arabs, Turks, Kurds, Uzbeks etc.) and the history of the region, except an imagined mythical age. It's cringe, like watching an old man trying to dress like a teenager: for westerners, you're only an "arab", and for your neighbors, you're mentally ill.

If you haven’t lived a day under US sanctions -if you haven’t spent a single day in Iran trying to survive under economic embargo and isolation -if you haven’t lived a minute as an Iranian being denied a visa, you’re not qualified to decide for Iranians. Let alone rule over them.

الان دیگه برام مهم نیست کی میره و کی میاد، چون میدونم ایران حتی اگه بشه اولین کشور خوب جهان، هیچوقت با وجود مردمش درست نمیشه.

@shadiographing اینجوری کل سال توی ده فصلی

بزرگ شدم یه خونه تو استرالیا می‌خرم. شیش ماه دوم سال می‌رم استرالیا عیدا برمی‌گردم.

If life is a gift I don't deserve it. If it's a burden i don't want to carry it anymore. I only desire to return my ticket.

If you’re 26–30 and still depending on your parents, seriously fix yourself. Something is wrong.

خوش‌بحال هرکسی که با اعضای خونواده‌ش از ایران رفت..

چیزی که همیشه منو می‌ترسونه اینه که شاید این روزها روزهای بهتری نسبت به آینده باشن. همیشه اوضاع می‌تونه بدتر بشه، همیشه.

It's so easy to have the right take on Iran: Iran needs change, but it should be achieved by an organic, peaceful process, it should not be imposed from abroad via war. Anyone who does not see this is clouded by ideology or naive about the reality of Iran and regime changes.

Okay time to admit that most jobs exist to keep people busy not to produce value So many industries are just elaborate systems for moving money around while people sit in chairs and pretend the work matters And everyone kind of knows this but saying it out loud breaks the spell So you have millions of people performing importance knowing that if they disappeared nothing would change except some meetings would get shorter It's almost as if the economy runs on the shared hallucination that productivity is happening

@sharghzadeh You're turning into the Iranian Cioran

Accurate. I am hoping to find something good but all I see is despair. The superstition is exacerbated by hopelessness of course. I hope these videos can give my students and Western friends a window into Iranian life that is more genuine than the media portrayal.