The people who trust bad information from LLMs are the same people who trusted bad information from search results and new articles, it just takes them less time to get bad information.

Love it. I can create closer to the speed of decision making.

maybe

Also, people not having money.

Most people's definition of freedom isn't being bombed by the US and Israel.

US is to out of touch with reality, they want to put a Zionist who is generally hated by Iranians in power. Will never happen.

> who is generally hated by Iranians in power.

So that’s why said Iranians chant Javid Shah?

Iranian here, the Shah has surprisingly many supporters, both inside and abroad.

Iran is a big complex country and is more diverse than people think.

When someone from the ME comments on a story about the ME, it is customary on HN for the community to downvote them into oblivion.

They are not downvoted into oblivion as far as I can see.

Why do you say it's customary?

When I left the reply, the comment was light gray.

I quipped that it is 'customary' based only on a few previous instances I noticed on HN. They drew my attention because with ME issues, I feel like most takes here (including my own) are based on received ideas, rather than first-hand experience.

Exactly, I have a hard time seeing how that will ever play out how they want.

The whole reason the 1979 revolution happened in the first place was because the Shah was a blatant US/Israeli puppet

You've missed the part where islamist butchered the leaders of the actual 1979 revolution. In reality it was:

unpopular shah -> 1979 revolution -> islamists take control, prison and kill the leftists of 1979 revolution.

That is true but that’s often how these things go, you pull together a coalition of factions to overthrow the existing elites and then afterwards it devolves into infighting

It had nothing to do with religion, that element is used to distract.

If Iran is unhappy with their government, they can deal with it. It is not a US problem in the slightest. Going to war with another country puts Americans at risk.

> if Iran is unhappy with their government, they can deal with it. It is not a US problem

If Tehran contented itself with oppressing its own, it probably wouldn't garner too much attention. The problem is its regional proxies constantly causing a mess. It lacks anyone willing to come to its aid right now in large part because of that foreign policy.

Which successful country does not covertly monitor and try to influence the politics of neighboring non-ally countries ?

Small not, but the US hasn't declared war. That requires an act of congress, and congress has continued to neutered itself more and more for decades.

Amazing the Pete Hegseth is even a person that anyone would ever need to take seriously.

The US Government is such a bunch of clowns - it's hard to take their nonsense seriously... well except that their stupid policies kill people...