Turns Out Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Was Right

"What are talking about" indeed.

It seems like your definition of politics is "any current events or opinions about them that I don't like," while things you do like should be openly discussed regardless of their societal implications or greater context.

The most political thing that either of us have mentioned is your mention that Ahmadinejad "is a horrible evil tyrant," which is political because it's inherently making a comparison between him and other politicians, and refers to actions that he took while in office.

So since you've opened that door, let's look for a comparison.

-Elected twice in his country between 2000 and 2010, the second election being of dubious veracity

-Far-right religious hardliner who painted any opposition as "evil" and viewed compromise as weakness

-Engaged in nuclear proliferation

-Tortured and executed political prisoners without trials

-Simplistic "them vs. us" fearmongering propaganda

If you look really hard, you might see a comparison there between him and another religious zealot that was in political office in those years. Maybe... one whose party loved to sing songs about "bomb Iran" and referred to Iran as part of the "Axis of Evil?"

So if we're being logically consistent, we should expect your next post to say how Dubya was also "a horrible evil tyrant," since he did all of that and also used 9/11 as an emotional smokescreen to order the invasion of two countries that had nothing to do with it while taking money from the country that actually was most responsible (Saudi Arabia), killing hundreds of thousands of people and further destabilizing the middle east.

For what it's worth, I do not agree that he or anyone else is inherently "evil," because the people that use the terms "good" and "evil" tend to use them not to describe someone's actions or the effects thereof, but agreement or disagreement with their personal beliefs. If Ahmadinejad and Dubya had the same religious beliefs, they'd be using completely different terminology when referring to each other.

People tend to be selfish, stupid, violent, power-hungry, tribal, flawed piles of contradictory habits everywhere, all the time, and labeling them as inherently either "good" or "evil" excuses or dismisses their past and future actions and erases any nuance from them. A "good" person can still be a toxic asshole. An "evil" person can still rescue kittens or help old ladies cross the road.

People should be judged by their actions in context and the effect that those actions have on the world, not by some subjective arbitrary scale made up by people in power thousands of years ago to dehumanize their political opponents and consolidate power.