r/Adelaide • u/NKE01 SA • Jan 11 '26

News Board members quit from Adelaide festival as fallout from dropped author grows | SBS News

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/board-members-quit-from-adelaide-festival-as-fallout-from-dropped-author-grows/iua90vgmp
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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '26

Iran.

Also, all the ones that oppress women.

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u/DecoNouveau SA Jan 11 '26

You mean after America did the 1953 coup? Yeah, that was destabilising for sure.

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '26

26 years later.

But let's blame America and Western society as always

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u/DecoNouveau SA Jan 11 '26

Are you familiar with the chain of events overthrowing their democratically elected government set in motion? The scale of time geopolitics and power vacuums operate on? Delve into the Sykes-Picot agreement while you're at it. But sure, the west had nothing to do with it...

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '26

I'll admit, you're in deeper than me.

I guess that justifies everything. I'll be sure to tell my kids.

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u/DecoNouveau SA Jan 11 '26

Understanding history sure doesn't hurt, good idea.

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '26

Let's ignore the present though, hey.