I keep thinking of the signs at protests that say shit like “If you want a country run by religion, move to Iran.”

Shit like that drains my hope in US survival. It’s like our entire framework is moral evangelism rather than restorative justice.

Look sweetie, I know you’re trying to be edgy and make a point but why do you need to make a false equivalency based in Islamophobia?

Especially when Iran was a vibrant and successful democracy until the US, we, overthrew the government and installed a puppet to give Shell oil access to their resources.

Iran came out of the wretched hell of colonialism and created a functioning democracy. The pictures of that time tell such a stunning picture. Women in cute skirts holding books on their way to college classes.

And then they decided to nationalize their oil resources and what did Britain do?

“Hey CIA, wanna have fun and overthrow a government?”