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  • Danke für die ,Recherche".

    Mit den gleichen Methoden liefert die KI meines Vertrauens folgende Aussagen zu Opferzahlen während der Schah Zeit:

    Zusammenfassend lässt sich sagen, dass es keine verlässlichen, allgemein anerkannten Opferzahlen gibt. Die meisten Schätzungen basieren auf fragmentarischen Berichten und sind stark von der politischen Perspektive der jeweiligen Quelle geprägt.

    Es mangelt an historisch fundierten Quellen und genau das ist das Problem das ich angesprochen habe.

    Allein in diesem Jahr haben die Mullahs tausende Iraner getötet.

    Das sind religiöse Fanatiker deren Weg von Leichen gepflastert ist.

    Das lässt mich stark daran zweifeln ob es hier überhaupt um objektive Argumentation geht.

    Beim Lesen der von dir verlinkten, englischen Wikipedia fällt mir persönlich auf, dass sich westliche Historiker augenscheinlich deutlich stärker mit Schätzungen zu Opferzahlen nach der iranischen Revolution beschäfitigt zu haben scheinen während Schätzungen für die Zeit vor der Revolution aus dieser Richtung selten bis nicht vorhanden zu sein scheinen.







  • I think most people from rich countries would still prefer the US to be dominant than China. The US at least talks a good game when it comes to freedom of speech, etc. China doesn’t even try to pretend to care about that. But, the US is chaotic and belligerent, whereas China is mostly using soft power these days

    I agree with you.

    The assumption I make is that the advantages of the US (higher personal freedom, of speech and economically) will further decline as Mango Mussolini respectively the people pulling his strings are far from done with restructuring the US democracy in their favor. In the end US citizens might end up with a repressive system similar to China but with lack of the claim to care for everyone.

    For the moment I agree that most Western citizens will still prefer the US society over a Chinese one.


  • Concerning the ‘will the US recover?’ question, my two cents:

    I don’t think the US will be able to recover the lost influence since the prerequisties for it reaching that level if power and influence have changed / are gone. The US dominated ‘the West’ in its fight againgst an authoritarian communist regime and build its global hegemony on the victory in this conflict. Even if the US could regain some trust the current system rival China is way smarter and more convincing in its promises to the regular citizen than the SU was during most of its time… eventhough both systems labeled themselves ‘communis’.

    That being said I don’t think the modern US could realistically neither win an arms race based on state finances against China nor make a better promise for the insividuals future. The US hegemony crumbels and imho impossibly will return… if a chinese dominance is better, especially for western citizens, also remains questionable.


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    13 days ago

    I get the point but honestly: Why does that matter?

    If we only accept judgement or action by ‘perfect individuals’ aka. ‘heroes’ the world won’t ever get better as influential humans are still humans and often have, by design, flaws and mistakes build within them and their character. Does that mean we shouldn’t judge anyone for their actions? Obviously not.

    But to claim that ones vision or ideas are outright wrong due to ad-hominem argumentation against their personal flaws is also bullshit. You’ll always find something to point out, especially with historical figures. Since, ironically due to their imperfect actionism, our social norms have improved and we often rightfully so critizise things deemed normal during their time.