>Imagine listening to Trotsky

Soft intelligentsia mass murderer

@SPOOKY Phil, Ruler of Heck you're a mass murderer?

The kind of guy who sips amaretto after signing a stack of death sentences on randos

Basically Robespierre, but worse

When was the last time a revolution resulted in a democracy? As far as I know, the only revolution that resulted in Democracy in the US, and that was more of an independence movement, one thing is creating a system where there is none, another is when you destroy what you already have.
French Revolution resulted in the Great Terror, and Napoleon, Red October resulted in USSR, and other countless revolutions resulted in similar things, it's a breeding ground for dictatorships and murders.

I mean I'm not a democrat

The problem with revolutions is that they are pretty much totally unpredictable and ultra costly

The revolutions in early SA also were independence movments, but that's about it.
You don't just destroy a society and create an utopia just like that.

The fact they don't produce democracy doesn;t concern me much

the most recent one may have been the cuban revolution?

cuba is a shithole

go to cuba

if you count coups syria

Cuban revolution like what? Castro? Are you sure that's the best example you have?

it's a shithole

Syria?

All shitholes.

oh the iranian revolution

Really

It always has been

Really? A fucking theocracy?

yeah

Iranian revolution was taken over by the priesthood lol

as I said

totally unpredictable outcomes

A theocratic dictatorship.

it's a theocratic republic

Good stuff.

YEah, with a supreme leader with power to veto everything including elected presidents.

Love a bit of authoritarianism

If you want sudden change of power at least go for a coup, not a revolution

much less damage, much more efficient

he doesn't have the power to veto everything

Yes or diplomacy

The Ayatollah is the ultimate authority on the interpretation of the Sharia, thus he functions kinda like the US Supreme Court, but the constitution can never be changed.

the guardian council is the equivalent of the supreme court

Is it?

Supreme leader has the power to decide on everything, he has power above the president and over the three branches. And he serves for life.

That's a king

I thought the Ayatollahs did the interpretation of weather or not a given law or practice is consistent with Islam, and the Supreme Ayatollah was the ultimate authority on that, if there was scholarly conflict.