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Robin-Yann Storm
@rystorm.com

"Why is Robin-Yann doing all this politic posting? Get back to Tool Design!" it's because 25 years ago, in 2000, I too saw everything that's happening right now. Decades of wars destroyed lives and touched everyone on the globe. Why wouldn't I do my small part in calling it out this time?

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Robin-Yann Storm
@rystorm.com

My part is exceedingly small, but that's why thousands doing their small part is important. That's society, that's the civilization we choose to be 25 years is a long time. For some this is new. I just need you to know it isn't new. Making up reasons to bomb and invade countries keeps happening.

Robin-Yann Storm
@rystorm.com

Do you want to know why refugee crises keep happening? It's because a lot of effort keeps getting put into making large swaths of the globe uninhabitable. These wars will touch you, even if you think you're far away. They will touch you in ways you can't account for right now. What will you do?

Robin-Yann Storm
@rystorm.com

Of course it's not just 25 years ago. It goes back even longer than that, with the US & UK overthrow of the first democratically elected leader of Iran in 1953. You can play through that story in The Cat and the Coup, which was an IGF finalist in 2011: store.steampowered.com/app/95700/Th...

store.steampowered.comThe Cat and the Coup on SteamIn The Cat and the Coup, you play the cat of Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh, the first democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran. During the summer of 1953, the CIA engineered a coup to bring about his do...
Robin-Yann Storm
@rystorm.com

The overthrow by the US & UK was publicly made known in 2013, with the release of many documents by the CIA: edition.cnn.com/2013/08/19/p... In the end it was all to do about oil. Which, if you lived through the 2000s, will sound very familiar.

edition.cnn.comIn declassified document, CIA acknowledges role in ‘53 Iran coup | CNN PoliticsSixty years after the overthrow of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh, a declassified CIA document acknowledges the agency was involved in the 1953 coup.