Iran

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Oct 6, 2022 9:00:18 GMT -5 Saudade said:

Oct 5, 2022 15:40:46 GMT -5 Michelle said:

Is that odd, in your experience?

No, not at all. It’s very difficult to get ordinary people to speak about politics. They get too scared.

My experience in travels and discussing politics is it varies widely. I cannot speak to where Saudade is specifically and in what context, but I've experienced the entire spectrum from not knowing/caring/scared to aggressively asking questions to explain my country of birth and whatever news they may have heard recently.

Thankfully, I've not personally felt threatened with these questions. It's more that I'm seen as an ally and resource. Mostly. My local pub? Yeah, they know me and will come at me hard, but with no threat. I'm including my local experiences as ME adjacent as they are 90% Muslim and fully openly align themselves with ME including anti-blasphemy laws which are incredibly vague and wide ranging and they do utilize.

And, yes, I'm also quite cautious depending on where I am. I have 2 rules for my life. Don't get dead and don't get jailed. This means not engaging in political (and by extension religious) talk for the most part. I get that fix from you guys. I will never ask a taxi driver anything except for how is your day, but I have often been asked what I think about American politics with sometimes incredibly surprising insight and other times blinding misinformation.