Pepperwood @griswaldo.bsky.social · 18/07/2026The Shah’s reign was autocratic and repressive, but please don’t make the mistake of thinking the revolution was an improvement. It’s brought more violence, corruption and repression than ever before. Worth your time reading ‘Stolen Revolution: Betrayal and Hope in Modern Iran’ btw 010
Pepperwood @griswaldo.bsky.social · 18/07/2026No, it’s about as much as you’re told and not worse than it was under the Shah. Khomeini signed off on the execution of around 30,000 political prisoners in the late 1980s alone - maybe more (see Khalkali, the hanging judge - Ayatollah Montazeri lost his place in the succession for criticising it) 210
Pepperwood @griswaldo.bsky.social · 01/07/2026You’re assuming that Reform voters possess the emotional intelligence to care. He could set fire to an orphanage, but so long as *you* are horrified, his supporters will be fine with it 140
Reposted by PepperwoodEuan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social · 30/06/2026These are not serious people 1525648
Pepperwood @griswaldo.bsky.social · 30/06/2026The regurgitated mewling that supporting Ukraine “prolongs the carnage” is nauseating, and their pretend concern for civilian lives is because they’re too cowardly to admit they’ve always wanted Russia to win and destroy Ukraine simply because it would hand the West a defeat. Awful, awful people. 0141
Pepperwood @griswaldo.bsky.social · 29/06/2026It’s stopping it from being considered as a barrier to citizenship in the future. But you’re stupid, so it went over your head like I assume most things do. And if I’ve realised this about you in just five minutes it’s safe to say your friends and family have definitely come to the same conclusion 110
Pepperwood @griswaldo.bsky.social · 29/06/2026And by your own screenshot, doesn’t even grant them citizenship I’m going to go out on a limb here and assume you struggle with basic reading comprehension, and get headaches any time you’re presented with more than one line of text 110
Pepperwood @griswaldo.bsky.social · 29/06/2026But we’re more intelligent than you are. Remember, you started off saying “you just sign a form and get a passport” then immediately disproved that by your own “evidence”, then backtracked on the number. It’s not the sign of an intelligent mind, is it? It’s the sign of a very stupid one. 020
Pepperwood @griswaldo.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Yeah, though to be honest, there are *a lot* of people out there who look like bots but are in fact, human arseholes. 010
Pepperwood @griswaldo.bsky.social · 29/06/2026It’s really important you understand how you’ve proved your entire thesis wrong by posting this. Like, you really do seem to struggle with written content or any kind of article past a headline or post you saw on (I’m assuming) X 100
Pepperwood @griswaldo.bsky.social · 29/06/2026He disregarded the bit that said “….please confirm with trusted sources” so to be fair you can’t expect him to have understood anything else 🤷♂️ 100
Pepperwood @griswaldo.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Why not 100%? You said you could just turn up “sign a form and get a passport” I genuinely don’t know if you have the emotional intelligence to understand how arse over elbow you have this. Like I said; your brain’s cooked. 210
Pepperwood @griswaldo.bsky.social · 29/06/2026“This is an estimate…please confirm with trusted sources” Bloody hell I didn’t expect *you* to be the one to prove you wrong and misguided 😂 010
Pepperwood @griswaldo.bsky.social · 29/06/2026It’s a hill I’ll happily die on, but animal abusers should be beaten to death. There’s no moral argument against it. None. 000
Pepperwood @griswaldo.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Screenshot the line that says or even suggests that all an illegal immigrant needs to do is “just sign a form and they get a passport” 110
Pepperwood @griswaldo.bsky.social · 29/06/2026You seem to *genuinely* believe that someone can turn up on a boat, walk into the nearest council office, ask for a passport, and leave said office with a passport after signing a piece of paper. There is *zero* chance that’s the case. I think you struggle to digest complex informatio 110
Pepperwood @griswaldo.bsky.social · 29/06/2026“Now illegals just have to sign a form and they get a passport” Whatever why you slice it, this is factually not true. It’s a lie, and you eagerly fell for it. I can’t imagine the damage your mind must have suffered to be an adult and genuinely think that line is in anyway true 200
Pepperwood @griswaldo.bsky.social · 29/06/2026“Sino Yellow Race” Your head’s cooked. Like, properly cooked. Just a mind that’s turned completely into a mushy soup. 010
Pepperwood @griswaldo.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Hopefully Burnham realises that reform voters aren’t coming back, or are wanted. Starmer seemed obsessed with trying to claw back the worst kinds of people in the country 050
Pepperwood @griswaldo.bsky.social · 28/06/2026It’s never framed as “This is what Farage stole from you, because he was grifting the entire country” Why can’t politicians say “he and others he worked with, hate the idea of Brits enjoying these kinds of perks and freedoms, so he wanted to steal them from you” Stop tiptoeing around him 140
Pepperwood @griswaldo.bsky.social · 28/06/2026If they had a shred of honesty or backbone in them they’d at least admit it was never about Palestinian civilians. It’s like how they can’t compute Lebanon wanting Hezbollah to disarm and Iranian influence out of their country 030
Reposted by Pepperwoodicookfood2023.bsky.social @icookfood2023.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Not one peep from Leftists, Progressives or the media.😒 Only Israel and AIPAC is coming out of their mouth. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2... 99253
Pepperwood @griswaldo.bsky.social · 28/06/2026You’d hope those campaigning for it will get their sh*t together and actually get the messaging right too 000
Pepperwood @griswaldo.bsky.social · 27/06/2026It’s so tiring watching them pretend to care about Palestinian civilians too 010
Reposted by PepperwoodGlobal Museum @globalmuseum.bsky.social · 27/06/2026While we are on a music kick, lets listen to what ancient Persia sounded like around 1400 BC? Sarah Parsaei performs on the Arjan harp — a historic instrument with roots going back nearly 3,400 years — in Tehran, Iran. #globalmuseum #music #Persian #musicalinstruments #history 15446331087
Reposted by PepperwoodHen Mazzig @henmazzig.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Two regimes that jail and hang gay men just played the World Cup’s Pride match. Both demanded FIFA shut it down. FIFA refused, so they had to compete in the gayest stadium of the World Cup. I'd call that poetic justice. 05719
Reposted by PepperwoodHen Mazzig @henmazzig.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Gazans marched today in protest of Hamas' rule. Palestinians are risking their lives to call out their oppressive government. When will the Free Palestine crowd realize? Credit: Hamza 29938
Pepperwood @griswaldo.bsky.social · 25/06/2026That’s encouraging. I just hope Burnham can turn it around and do some good and actually attack Reform without letting up 020
Pepperwood @griswaldo.bsky.social · 25/06/2026I think so too, but with so many people are apathetic and don’t see the threat and danger to society that groups like Reform pose. If the polls stay as they are aren’t they on course for a majority? 100
Pepperwood @griswaldo.bsky.social · 25/06/2026It won’t happen, because mainstream progressives will spend their time hand-wringing and fretting instead of moving heaven and earth to bar this people from public office. Not sure what Burnham can or will do in the short time he’ll have before the next GE though 120
Reposted by PepperwoodMatthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Trump promising to ‘come to the rescue’ of protesters remains one of his most unfathomably irresponsible statements 35716
Pepperwood @griswaldo.bsky.social · 25/06/2026We’ll see when the picture becomes clearer on who he’s tapping up for the cabinet. Any appointing of people just to return a favour and he’s cooked 000
Pepperwood @griswaldo.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Reform voters are universally unintelligent. They could announce a policy to sacrifice the firstborn of every family and their voters will either shrug, thinking it won’t happen to them, or laugh because they don’t care what happens to anyone. The whole party should have been banned from day 1 183
Pepperwood @griswaldo.bsky.social · 25/06/2026There should be a fit and proper person test before you can enter Parliament. Jenrick would clearly fail it and would therefore not be allowed to stand. And yet the mainstream everywhere just wrings their hands and wonders what to do about these disgusting people 041
Pepperwood @griswaldo.bsky.social · 25/06/2026And yet it’s tolerated by the mainstream because he’s allowed to stand as a candidate. Jenrick, Farage etc, are all clearly a threat to society, communities, the economy etc, and yet people let them continue. The Reform mob should have been banned long ago and shut out of society. 0100
Pepperwood @griswaldo.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Try telling that to the cultists and people obsessed by the idea that a result a decade ago on an ambiguous question should be respected until the end of time. I think before there’s any talk of rejoin, Farage, Jenrick and co and their media backers need to be shut down/banned 130
Pepperwood @griswaldo.bsky.social · 25/06/2026And other politicians and media tiptoe around people like Jenrick rather than publicly and loudly calling him an “emotionally damaged cunt who wants t deport your friends and neighbours” 040
Pepperwood @griswaldo.bsky.social · 25/06/2026And yet he’s tolerated. He’s still allowed to stand as a candidate for some reason, despite being a clear threat and danger to society, and to the ideals the UK claims it represents. Either ban him from politics for the good of the country, or he continues to poison it. 100
Pepperwood @griswaldo.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Undoubtedly there is, but I worry that when it comes to it, people would run and hide when the right wing media starts spitting feathers. The Indy even carried a quote from someone who hated Brexit but wouldn’t vote to rejoin because the original result should be respected. People are weird! 110
Pepperwood @griswaldo.bsky.social · 25/06/2026If people had the backbone to bring about laws where someone like “Essex Patriot” would be fined into literal poverty for spreading misinformation it might make a difference. But instead we treat these people and the platforms they’re on with a respect none of them deserve 061
Pepperwood @griswaldo.bsky.social · 25/06/2026And if MPs are too cowed by a weird notion of “moving on” or “respecting the original vote” and vote no? 120
Pepperwood @griswaldo.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Not arguing with your descriptions of either one of them there! 010
Pepperwood @griswaldo.bsky.social · 24/06/2026So when there’s reports of massacres in Iran, it’s worth looking at the sources, as many of the organisations reporting the numbers have years of experience in compiling figures during events like that, with networks of people in the countries they’re investigating. 100
Pepperwood @griswaldo.bsky.social · 24/06/2026I agree the media landscape can be exhausting. What’s also important imo is to not fall into the trap of “my enemy’s enemy is my friend” Like hate Israel’s government all you want for what they did in Gaza - it’s only natural, but the islamic republic is also evil, violent and cruel 100
Pepperwood @griswaldo.bsky.social · 24/06/2026If you take Iran specifically, since the revolution the country has removed many human rights, tortured, imprisoned and killed many, and spent money that should go to Iranians on Hezbollah, Hamas et al. “Na Gaza, Na Lebnan, Janam fedaye Iran” has been a popular chant inside the country 010
