An Iranian girl, aged 16, has been left in a coma and is being treated in hospital under heavy security after an assault on the Tehran subway, a rights group said on Tuesday, blaming the Islamic republic's notorious morality police.
Would be real nice if this supposed Omni benevolent god came down here and kicked the shit out of his misbehaving kids. You know, like a parent is supposed to do.
I am confused - are you still talking about Iran here, or the US? Because I seem to recall a bunch of recent legislation in the US that wants to regulate how people may dress (topic of crossdressing / discriminating against transgenders).
Any institution that requires its members to have "faith" in a given set of entities is always dangerous for a free, civilized world. Religions by definition fall into this set of institutions. The cure for this is making high quality education extremely accessible to everyone around the world. Educational universities are soft power, where qualities like freedom, liberty, democracy etc. can be entrenched in people. Not doing this = allowing dangerous faith based institutions to erode away at these values.
All religions are shit. However, religion is a tool for those in power to control the masses. The root cause of the fucked up Iranian government is not Islam, it's power hungry assholes who - thanks to the patriarchate being in place at the time they got to the top, happen to be misogynistic fucktards.
Cool, let's have my country, the US, return to unfettered immigration policies and bring back the policy that if you set foot on US soil, you're made a citizen.
Then let's start importing people from these hellstates by the millions. Throw billions of dollars at it. Redirect anti-terrorism money to this sort of immigration instead.
I mean this 100% unironically. Great for the world, great for humanity, and spectacular for the US
With allies and neutrals negotiate an immigration policy case by case to achieve a balance which best benefits both sides of the transit.
With enemies, open the gates and make a point of how everyone who's able to choose will at least be extremely tempted to choose the US.
Even better since we're in a day and age when America's geopolitical enemies are already in demographic crises, adopting this policy would basically set up enemy nations for abject failure while solidifying America's own demographic balance, and in an extended sense, that of America's allies.
Meanwhile we avoid brain draining potential allies like opening the flood gates with mexico would achieve.
I happen to agree. Ideally I would open the floodgates little by little and turn the US into a nation of a billion. So many countries want to send us the best that they have. It's freaken free money. Come here, bring your food, and work in our factories.