Corn tortillas tend to be much smaller so I think you just smoosh em out in your hands without a rolling pin or using a flat surface. You kind of pat/smack them into shape? I'm not practiced at it yet, been focused on my big burrito tortillas.
Compare again to the sub-10 number of protesters killed in Minneapolis.
There weren't hostile enemy nations arming the protesters in Minneapolis, and they weren't hunting down cops and soldiers. 209 government-affiliated military and non-military personnel were killed during the riots. The situations are not so easily comparable.
This wasn't protest, it was attempted color revolution. Was Iran supposed to let them overthrow the government?
I think it’s unnecessarily conspiratorial to lay it all at the feet of the US.
We know Mossad was involved, because they openly admitted it. Mossad’s official Farsi X (Twitter) account posted: “We are with you. Not only from a distance and verbally. We are with you in the field.” Mossad Director David Barnea’s gave a statement following the June 2025 strikes, warning that Israel “will continue to be there [in Iran], as we have been there.” Mike Pompao came out to say; “Happy New Year to every Iranian in the streets. Also to every Mossad agent walking beside them." We also know they helped distribute satellite internet connections for Starlink to evade media blackouts, and operated social media channels to help coordinate the riots.
CIA is less obvious, they actually have OpSec and know not to brag that they have agents in the streets. It's hard to believe that the CIA left Israel on its own to conduct this operation, though. Also, the rioters got their guns from somewhere.
They still hold power over multiple cultures and ethnicities and brutally suppress secessionist movements.
That's literally every country on Earth. That's what countries are. The project of nation building is welding together different ethnicities and cultures into a single unified nation, and sometimes that requires putting down secession to maintain cohesion of a single state. If your definition of "empire" basically defines all countries as empires, it isn't very useful.
I actually think the future will be bipolar with India and China as the competing powers. The west has had its time.
The West won't vanish either, they're still going to be very powerful competing powers. It's likely going to break up into chunks, though, starting with the split that's emerging between the US and basically everyone else. Then, maybe, Europe will fracture further into blocs. No idea what Canada is going to do, probably get invaded and absorbed by the US or something.
It's going to get ugly and strange. But, in that ugliness and strangeness, there will finally be space for revolution again.
Acknowledging that Iran killed forty thousand protesters makes me a Zionist? I’m not sure I follow.
It took months for Israel to kill 40,000 Palestinians when they were bombing Gaza, how can you believe that Iran could pull that off in days? Israel wasn't able to hide what they did either because Palestinians have phones, so where's the video evidence coming out of Iran? They disposed of 40,000 bodies and we can't see it from satellite images or phones? It's nonsense.
If you swallow the Zionist propaganda that Iran is somehow even more bloodthirsty than Israel, you're a Zionist.
Iran likely killed somewhere between Iran's official count of 3,000 people and the HRANA count of 7,000, a lot of them rioters that were armed by CIA/Mossad and were shooting cops and burning down government buildings. There were certainly unarmed people who were also shot, but the situation on the ground was chaotic and it's hard to distinguish armed targets during a riot.
The "protests" were the original US/Israeli plan to overthrow the government, and they failed. This war is the backup plan.
The biggest thing I've learned is that you need to let the dough sit for 30-ish minutes after you mix it into a ball, the dough is much more workable and the resulting tortillas are much softer and easier to roll. Also, I use my electric kettle to heat up water to mix into the dough since my sink wasn't getting it quite hot enough. I use a big wooden spoon to work the very hot water in, before it cools enough that I can switch to using my hands. Since mine are bigger I go for 90 sec on one side and 45 sec on the other.
It took a few batches to get the process down, but I really recommend it! I started making my own to save a little bit of money, but now that I'm getting good at it they definitely taste better. I'll eventually start experimenting with flavoring them with garlic or chili powder at some point, but I'm going to get more practice in first.
I had one, it rolled up perfectly. I've been having trouble with my tortillas being too thick, these are my thinnest yet. Splitting the dough into two bowls was definitely the right choice, while I work the dough from one the other has time to hydrate. Also used a scale this time to split the dough balls evenly, instead of just eyeballing it like I was before.
More tortillas! This time I figured out how to make a bigger batch (basically I made two bowls and split them into 6 tortillas each, giving me 12) and since I didn't mess with the recipe at all they came out really good! Full 25cm burrito tortillas too!
12 should do me for the week for burritos and veggie wraps, so I won't need to make any mid-week. Should be enough salt in them that they'll keep at room temperature too, so I can just whip them into a pan to heat and then roll em up with all my fixins.
No. There's the global hegemon, and then there are the lesser regional powers that can't project force very far beyond their borders. Russia has been fighting for a decade over a relatively small piece of land that's literally directly on its border, it just isn't strong enough to even be an empire. There is only one empire under hegemony
That will certainly change in a multipolar world, but that means we can pit them against each other. Without a hegemon that can rally the entire imperial core against every revolutionary project, this new world will be one where revolutionaries can use imperialist rivalries to create space for themselves. Multipolarity is the precondition for revolution.
And in this new world, we'll need to reevaluate the contradictions. Russia is my enemy's enemy at this historical moment but in the new world I expect that to change. They are neoliberal capitalists, after all.
If you got laid off how would you even apply for another job? Write up a resume on your phone? Sounds like a nightmare.