James Stout

Ayatollah Hamanai, not his son.

And you can see his stuff where he's like, you should not mistreat your wife.

You can literally find those in his timeline on Twitter, right?

He was a big poster.

So rather than listening to women in Iran, women from Iran, many of whom I have spoken to, to look at the evidence of the killing, for example, with Gina Amini, right?

He had no consistent politics.

Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

Even at that time, I can remember just being sort of somewhat appalled by the Marxist-Leninist tendency to excuse crimes against humanity as long as they were done by people who said the right things, who had the right vibes, who condemned the right people.

And the liberal tendency to excuse crimes against humanity so long as they were done in service of capitalism and the state.

Yeah, right.

Like this fundamentally not rooted in the idea that people have a right to dignity.

It's the revolutionary rhetoric.

Yeah.

Like with Assad, right?

Like you can murder your own people with chemical weapons so long as you pretend to give a single shit about Palestinians, even though you've spent decades using your weapons to kill your own people and never once used them to actually help the people of Palestine, to actually protect people.

Yeah.

It took an army of internet detectives to crack the case.

I wanted people to be able to see what their tax dollars were being used for.

Sunlight's the greatest disinfectant.