Strypey

@fullsquare This talking point is designed for replying to someone who denies that there was any resourcing of Islamist groups by the Iranian regime. So not really a suitable response to what I was saying. Which is that the Anti-Americanism precedes Iranian funding, precipitated by decades of US military adventurism in the region.

If you want to understand the genesis of militant Islamism, see the Adam Curtis documentary The Power of Nightmares Or maybe read this;

https://meaningness.com/fundamentalism-countercultural-modernism

@fullsquare
> a segment of that anti-americanism was funded by sales of iranian oil. not all of course, but houthis wouldn’t be a thing without it, or large parts of hezbollah

This is a bit like saying certain human rights orgs only exist because Soros funds them via OSF, or that the Hong Kong protests only happened because of NED/ OTF funding. In all these cases I suspect authentic movements are funded when their activities happen to align with funders’ current goals.

@aninjury2all @Ardubal

@RecursiveParadox
> butter chicken is indigenous but tikka masala is the BIR style dish

Wikipedia agrees with you. I’m convinced. Who knew? I guess maybe the names confused the people who told me that. A name like “tikka masala” sounds traditional, while I can’t think of anything more anglophone sounding than “butter chicken” ; )

@fell
> Turns out Honey Chicken is a purely Australian invention

Like butter chicken from Indian restaurants … in the anglophone world only, apparently. What is with us anglophones and our propensity for consuming jungle fowl in yellowish fluids?

@FoxtrotDeltaTango