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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: didjuneau who wrote (224828)	1/9/2026 5:56:32 PM
From: didjuneau	1 Recommendation Recommended By tntpal Respond to of 224891

It's fascinating to imagine, isn't it? A world where an Islamist tyranny has been overthrown by its own people ... and all the Islamist-friendly Western governments & media will have to come to terms with the fact that their ideological agenda has been shattered & discredited. — Simon Fox (@SimonFoxWriter) January 9, 2026

To: didjuneau who wrote (224828)	1/9/2026 9:54:52 PM
From: didjuneau	1 Recommendation Recommended By tntpal Respond to of 224891

...the Communist/Islamist alliance. May both fall! We’ll have our home again.https://t.co/nZkBEj3GGi pic.twitter.com/OVX3fac1xr — Homeland Security (@DHSgov) January 9, 2026 BREAKING: Iranian civilians set fire to mosques in the nation's capital — calling for the end of the regime's authoritarian, Islamic theocracy.pic.twitter.com/8FfoTrgv6s — Polymarket (@Polymarket) January 10, 2026

To: didjuneau who wrote (224828)	1/9/2026 10:05:12 PM
From: didjuneau	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224891

They didn’t realize that they had witnessed an actual uprising and revolution with their own eyes!! pic.twitter.com/e19nqOGeGL — jpberdel (@jpberdel) January 9, 2026 Well, it’s “Spring”. I don’t know what is going on with our media. But it is Spring again in Iran. There are “complaints” in the street. People are voicing their “incomplete satisfaction” with “demonstrations” of “discontent”. I kept talking in 2011 about the revolution in Cairo. And no one at Manhattan cocktail parties had heard that. “You mean the demonstrations? You are being alarmist don’t you think Eric?” Was I insane? No. I was just not reading the Times or listening to NPR and instead only following accounts on Twitter that posted about 1/2 their tweets in Arabic. And when Mubarak fell, it still wasn’t a revolution in my NYC friends’ minds. It was the damndest thing. They didn’t realize that they had witnessed an actual uprising and revolution with their own eyes!! To them, there was a resignation during Arab Spring and demonstrations. That’s it. That taught me the power that News organizations had on respectable people. It was mind control. You wanted to be mind controlled so you didn’t fall from grace within the moderately successful educated elite. If I didn’t know better I would say it sure looks like an uprising with a more than likely revolution to follow….But then again I’m once again not a professor or journalist. Just a once respectable guy who, like you, can’t get a straight quality story based on facts from reliable news sources. So, better ask someone else. Preferably with a chaired professorship or a Pulitzer Prize