RIP Mohsen Amir-Aslani

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Wrong ISIS grew in Syria, where there was NO overthrowing, Assad is still in power.

A better lesson is look at what happens when regimes are not overthrown such as in Syria, it does NOT always result in instability.

I take Libya, Egypt, Tunisia over Syria any day. According to the Economist’s Democracy Index, those former countries score much better than under their old regimes. Syria is ranked dead last in region.

It is false that these nations are less democratic. Mohammed Morsi was elected, unlike Bashar Assad.

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It was not even in the Farsi it was just English in the script.

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Are you sure you know what the word “popular” means? Because it doesn’t mean “overwhelmingly popular” or “most popular”. Red Hot Chili Peppers is a popular band, but they aren’t beloved by over 50% of the population, for example. The iPhone is a popular phone, but it doesn’t have 51%+ of the market for cel phones.

Popular doesn’t mean “most people support it”, it just means a lot of people support it.

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Unfortunately, I can’t read or write in Farsi if my life depended on it and my spoken Farsi is perhaps slightly better than my Russian. I just used google translate.

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Answered here.

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No, not really. I quoted the post I was commenting on. Now you seem to be confused over what the word “popular” means AND over what is being discussed.

I’ll ask again: are you sure you understand what the word “popular” means?

It weird because sometimes you seem to and sometimes you don’t. For instance, in the post I quoted, you said that unpopularity has degrees, but you don’t seem to make the same allowance for popularity.

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Let’s not hijack this thread about that when there is a perfectly good thread devoted specifically to that topic. I’m not going to reply to any further posts on that subject in this thread.

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Yeah because by now maybe you’ve figured out that don’t really know what the word “popular” means. Not sure why you’re being so idiotic about this, but there it is.

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Or, you could go to the other thread and clarify the word to your heart’s content.

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I could, yes, but I choose not to. I’d rather see John defend his comments where he made them.

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OK I get it. Going for the title, are you? You’ll prolly have to work the judges a bit; “worst thing in the thread” is a pretty low bar to dive under…

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It sure does look just like the English word “boring” written in arabic script.

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It’s been awhile since I used google translate so I could have made a mistake and my father never taught me Farsi.

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No, you are right about its being Farsi/Persian script rather than Arabic; most of the letters do look like typical Arabic naskh-style script, but the final “g” character is a Farsi/Persian letter, not an Arabic one.

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I hate you guys. I think the word I was looking for was poignant, but it’s one of those that I can write but not pronounce and which I’m never sure if it means what I think it means. Specifically, definitions 2b and 3b: it made a strong impression and was apt and to the point. And poetic too, so there :stuck_out_tongue: (that one I know what it means).

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OK, Persian script instead of Arabic, but it’s a transliteration of the English word, not a translation.

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Well, no more using google translate when drinking for me then.

Anyway, I already promised Miller I wouldn’t be posting stuff not in English anyway.

Does ruin the joke though.

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Well said.