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It’s reasonable for her to say such things in order to get support of the nation most capable of removing Maduro and allowing her to rule. It doesn’t make her a bad person or speak negatively on how effective a ruler she will be.

I was pointing out the bad reasoning you’ve employed.

The U.S. did not install the Shah. He was already in his position of power well before 1950.

Iranians were way better off under the Shah than under the current regime. The current regime is way worse from a humanitarian perspective.

In the 90s I had a professor from Ukraine for a math class. He grew up during Stalin and Khrushchev and worked during the Brezhnev years. At a party a group of us decried Pinochet. His response, “What is the big deal. So he killed 10,000 people. In Ukraine we would gladly kill 10,000 people to have their economy.”

Ted Turner once said something egregiously stupid and wrong and ever since then I discounted everything CNN did or reported.

From Wikipedia:

A referendum to dissolve parliament and give the prime minister power to make law was submitted to voters, and it passed with 99 per cent approval, 2,043,300 votes to 1300 votes against.[83] According to historian Mark Gasiorowski, "There were separate polling stations for yes and no votes, producing sharp criticism of Mosaddeq" and that the "controversial referendum...gave the CIA's precoup propaganda campaign to show up Mosaddeq as an anti-democratic dictator an easy target".[84]

A person has to be very gullible to believe 99% of the vote went one way in a fair election involving 2+ million people.

Thank you for that convincing insight.

Yes, I can’t prove I have pi. But you can’t prove that I don’t. I’m not a physicist I’m a mathematician. Quantum phenomena appear to actually, in reality be “probabilistic” and to actually involve irrational numbers.

If rationals exist in reality and you are comfortable with Graham’s number existing in reality (which has more digits in its base 10 representation than the number of particles in the observable universe) then why not irrationals? They are the completion of the rationals.

Unless you are a finitist.

Trump has with impunity engaged in so many clearly unconstitutional acts that it is clear that the constitution is merely a worthless piece of paper.

It appears quantum phenomena are accurately described using mathematics involving trig functions. As such we do encounters numbers in reality that involve transcendental numbers, right?

There are a vast number of valid reasons to despise Donald Trump. He has publicly lusted after his daughter. He has said that he can sexually assault women with impunity since he is a star. He was convicted of felonies. He is barred from operating a charity in New York. He is known to stiff workers and hire illegals. He is incapable of admitting wrongdoing or admitting that he made a mistake. Hence his marking up a NOAA hurricane forecast map. He clearly knew about Epstein’s crimes and did not care about them. (Along with a lot of other famous people.) His threats against Panama, Canada, and Greenland are doing harm to the U.S. His henchmen in charge of ICE have deported U.S. citizens and he doesn’t care about that. He’s accepted billions in bribes via his Trump Coin. He lies constantly. He got into a twitter feud with a tennager while President. He is ignorant, incurious, vain, and narcissistic.