On this day in 1953, the U.S. and British governments initiated a coup d’état against the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran, Mohammad Mosaddegh. Mosaddegh had been preparing to nationalize Iran’s British-owned oil fields.
Mosaddegh had sought to audit the documents of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC), later re-named British Petroleum, and to limit the company’s control over Iranian oil reserves. When the AIOC refused to cooperate with the Iranian government, the parliament voted to nationalize Iran’s oil industry and to expel foreign corporate representatives from the country.
In response, the British began a worldwide boycott of Iranian oil to pressure Iran economically and engaged in subterfuge to undermine Mosaddegh’s government.
Judging Mosaddegh to be unreliable and fearing a communist takeover, Winston Churchill and the Eisenhower administration overthrew Iran’s government. The coup action was also supported by the Iranian clergy, who opposed Mosaddegh’s secularism.
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) hired mobsters to stage pro-Shah riots and paid people to travel to Tehran and take over the streets of the city. Between 200 and 300 people were killed in the ensuing mayhem.
Mosaddegh was arrested, tried, and convicted of treason by the Shah’s military court. Many of his supporters were imprisoned, several received the death penalty. Mosaddegh himself lived the rest of his life under house arrest, dying in 1967.
After the coup, the Shah ruled as a monarch for the next 26 years until he was overthrown in the Iranian Revolution in 1979.
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I have a confession. I did not watch any of the olympics this year. NONE of it. Not even break dancing. I didn’t watch any break dancing, I didn’t watch any memes about break dancing, all I saw was a news article saying they’re not bringing back break dancing and that was all I needed to know that my time was well spent!
The wiimote really bridged generations. Grandma POPPED OFF on those wii games ngl.
I put on the DNC just to check what was going on, then I got jump scared by Hilary Clinton
I just remembered something so fucking stupid. like 2 or 3 years ago I swear my father tipped a pizza delivery person with a 50 dollar cabela’s gift card and just the thought of some drunk guy tipping someone with a gift card like that is so fucking absurd and funny lmao
What’s Cabela’s?
If you know what Bass Pro Shop is, that.
Cabela’s is a hunting and outdoorsy themed department store with shitty restaurants and guns inside.
They even have boats! and guns!
It has everything you need, if what you need is to go outdoors on private land bounded by highways on four sides.
The outdoors store for people who go outdoors once a year
I got another compliment on the color of my nails! And this time it was from a cute dude with a mustache
Man, Silent Hill 2 Remake looks kind of fucking rancid, the combat looks in relative terms exactly as bad as the originals were for its time, only now it happens with a more annoying camera angle and you have to press more buttons.
Poop d’etat
I have hemmorhoids and it hurts to sit downspoiler
i don’t actually i just think this is funny
This is the real stolen valor
I’ve done my time.
its my early day at work tomorrow so gonna go to bed soon so that’s two days of no drinking at home down. i’ve done better than this before but two days in a row sober is OK for my 2023-2024 average levels. we’ll see what tomorrow brings.
feel that crushing loneliness i posted about all of last fall into early spring this year creeping back in. hello old friend.
it’s amazing to me how viscerally and knee-jerkingly some people do not understand the Softboy Experience. fuck toxic masculinity. also american baby boomers are some of the most emotionally misshapen and stunted cadre of people to walk this earth. how dare a masc show healthy sadness or value and take seriously his/their bonds with others.
i need to quit solo drinking. i need to actually try to do it this time. maybe it would lead into mostly giving up drinking period, but for right now quitting social drinks is just too big of an ask so im starting here. any sober comrades want to chime in with tips? even though i’m not going full sober (yet if ever), i’m sure many of the same tactics apply.
dating apps will always suck for as long as they remain gamified gambling machines mixed with an online catalog where the human being is the product, but jeez man its crazy how much less dogshit they’d be without all the pay to win horseshit. pay for hinge premium, filter for “other” politics and make it a dealbreaker and i’m given a steady stream of interesting, attractive, politically compatible people.
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more involved thoughts
i think you’re right that i’ll regret not trying to keep a potentially beautiful friendship in my life more than i’d regret trying and it not working out. i texted her saying lets circle back after a month or so of no-to-limited contact just to see what spending time as friends feels like.
My biggest concern is trusting myself to just be grateful for the friendship as it is and the love we share in that format without sneakily/subconsciously trying to push in a direction of us circling back to each other romantically. and like…that is technically possible, it’s something that does happen (especially in cases like this where it truly does feel like a “right person wrong time” situation), but i need to lock that possibility in a tiny box in the back of my mind and live the friendship as well as the rest of my life like it’s pretty much not there. that takes a lot of restraint and self awareness and really strong “self-boundaries” i guess you’d call it and it isn’t exactly easy.
that and ofc if i saw her in person now i think i’d have a stabbing sadness in my chest the whole time we spent together. but that’s what the no contact period is for, hopefully that’ll fade with time.
The thing I would say to this is: I’ve had times of pause/avoidance/genuine “I can’t be near you” with all of the friends I consider chosen family. It’s not just a romantic thing. It’s a deep relationship thing. If it survives, it’s deep. The depth comes from putting in the work.
Sometimes it just happens and the way to preserve to closeness worked towards is to recognize the present moment is both fleeting and harmful to the long-term bond (in that taking a long view is more productive)
I’m in one rn tbh, I have zero doubt it’ll work out eventually the bond is gonna pick up, just had a pause in it. it’s not even romantic, I just bared too much of my soul and need to be alone a bit. The man saved my life once, so not even “<my name> life debt loyalty” is immune to needing distance for a bit. Breaks can be a healthy reset if not taken to extreme. Ultimately, you control your mind and heart. That which causes doubt as to whether this is viable is malleable.
Disclaimer: I’m a fucking dumbass, for real no shit. If you are still talking terms with one of her friends trust the friends advice.
well homie if ur a dumbass ur a very wise one. i really appreciate you sharing, the depth and complexity of human connection is truly a beautiful thing and i wish more people had the self-awareness and sensitivity to fully engage and appreciate that. we’ll see how we both feel after the month is up. if the break needs more time at that point then so be it, maybe it would salvage our connect in the long run like you said.
