Guest Post from an Iranian
by Tomte on 1/31/2026, 6:16:43 PM
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9530
Comments
by: bink
There's no doubt what's happening in Iran is a massacre by a dictatorial regime, but good grief the parallels between the rhetoric now and that of 2003 are impossible to ignore. I thought we had moved past the idea that the US could just bomb a country into a better future.
1/31/2026, 6:48:55 PM
by: jopsen
> There are countless examples...<p>The hard things about having rule of law, is that you generally can't disqualify people from VISAs based on who parents are. And revoking visa granted years ago is even harder.<p>I think maybe the EU did something like this with some Russian elites, but as I recall they put names of the people into a law.<p>The rule of law has downsides, but as a whole I'll take it over the alternative any day.
1/31/2026, 7:19:44 PM
by: joduplessis
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1/31/2026, 7:11:40 PM