the Iranian exiles that fled after the overthrow of the Shah, tend to be part of the old ruling class that had disempowered.

And the people stuck behind are the people who don’t view the regime as legitimate in this article.

Let’s look at your 3 criteria one by one:

or internal support

The regime is definitely illegitimate in eyes of the people, as proven by the fact that most people stayed away from the sham election where their only choices was between archconservatives and reactionaries.

the context of international relations,

The US has had no diplomatic relations with Iran since 1979 and does not recognize that regime as legitimate.

and control.

Yes they do control people. With torture and murder. But torture and murder is not really viewed as a legitimate way for countries to control their population.

The Supreme Dictator regime is in most ways worse than the Shah. The Shah didn’t make women wear ridiculous clothes and arrest people for making dancing videos about being happy.

He failed to legitimize the government that has been ruling the country since 1979…?

The monarchy system of the Shah lasted 2500 years. Not sure what the point it.

You don’t have to support theocracy to recognize the absurdity of claiming that a government that’s been in charge for 50 years, and is recognized around the world, is somehow illegitimate.

It is illegitimate as a democracy and government that represents its own people. People are protesting the fakeness of the election by not voting.

So like Poland was the worst country in Europe to live in at the start of WW2. Not because Poland was bad but because Germany and Russia were bad and would both soon be just as bad to live in as Poland.

Nobody’s average soldier age is 45. Has nothing to do NK being rock bottom in country rankings. And the younger you are in NK, the more you are probably screwed.

Considering that North Korea is literally the worse country in the world to live it, this is super likely to be an attractive offer.

The Neo-Nazis are in Russia working with NK.

The Axis of Evil

Treason Trump - War Criminal Putin - Caligula Jong Un - Comrade Xi

What can “the west” really do to prevent or stop troops from NK being sent to the Ukraine front?

Drop leaflets on them inviting them to surrender and upgrade their lives to South Korean national.

But man, it really is starting to look like WW3

It looks more like Crimean War II to me.

Maybe go ahead and plan to build a large camp for malnourished people.

Or just invite the South Korean government to send agents to Ukraine to invite them all to South Korea.

Russia gets malnourished and untrained Korean conscripts.

Just offer them all plane tickets to South Korea. Problem solved.

Not a solution. Much of the modern web is reliant on JavaScript to function.

And much of it works better and faster without JavaScript. Some sites don’t work in Noscript, but most sites run faster and work well enough.

Unrelated but last time they came to Jesus in China 20 million people died.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiping_Rebellion

It’s not immoral to truthfully tell someone they are donating to stop election fraud.

This is brilliant. Someone absolutely needs to do this.

or find someone for a pair programming session with you.

Then you would make it take longer.

Probably one of the shitstains in Google’s C-suite after having signed a “wonderful” contract to get access to “all that great data from Reddit”

If they hadn’t bought and then shutdown what became google groups to sabotage Usenet they could have gotten access to just as good of a data set for free.

LMFAO This time the AI doesn’t even know that 6.12 > 2.537. It doesn’t even know to use the computer to compute things even though it literally runs inside a computer.

Me: is andromeda or ngc300 closer to us?

ChatGPT: Between the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) and NGC 300, NGC 300 is closer to us. NGC 300 is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation Sculptor, and it’s approximately 6.12 million light-years away from Earth. In contrast, the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) is much farther, at around 2.537 million light-years away. Therefore, NGC 300 is closer to us than the Andromeda Galaxy.

It depends on how you ask the question, and there is also a randomization done on the AI answer that you get. The point is that you would be foolish to trust AI to accurately answer science questions. Why the f*ck would you want a randomized answer to a science question?

ME: how far is andromeda from caldwell 70?

ChatGPT: Caldwell 70, also known as NGC 7000 or the North America Nebula, is an emission nebula located in the constellation Cygnus. It is much closer to us than the Andromeda Galaxy. The North America Nebula is estimated to be around 1,600 light-years away from Earth. Therefore, in comparison to the distance between the Milky Way and Andromeda, Caldwell 70 is significantly closer to us.

In fact Caldwell 70 is over twice as far as Andromeda, because Caldwell 70 in NGC 300, not NDC 7000 (Caldwell-20). Also, the AI didn’t even answer the question that I actually asked.