Iran: Rohani forms cabinet, appoints female VP

[MADem]

28. A few nutjobs who make a mean game about Hillary Clinton aren't our government.

It's important to keep this foremost in our minds.

Someone in USA also made a game about hitting Bush with a shoe. It got a great reception here. Remember this?

http://www.sockandawe.com/

It's silly to say "Oh, the Persians are putting women in the CABINET (not really the Vice Presidency) while we Americans are making mean games about Hillary!" It's not "We, The People" doing that, it's a few partisan assholes, who happen to also be tone deaf about issues like violence against women.

Our government does have women in the cabinet--we have for a long time, now--and our government had nothing to do with those stupid games.

No ill will here, either. I just get a bit exasperated at times. It's false equivalency, it irritates. Making those kinds of comparisons, too, also paper over a lot that's wrong in Iran. They''ve got the same "rich get richer, poor get poorer" problems that many other places are enduring, and the divide is getting worse, not better--that's always a recipe for disaster if not corrected.