• Southern Boy@lemmy.mlOP
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    29 days ago

    It’s 2024 and you’re cheering on US backed “moderate rebels” which are as much of a plague on the Syrian population as Turkey and ISIS. Grow up. The OPCW melted down over the inability to prove that Assad gassed his own civilians just because he hates them so much (a likely story). The symptoms in the footage don’t even match sarin, the mouth foaming is more characteristic of chlorine. The smear mirrors numerous other US attempts to fabricate cassus belli against a peripheral country in West Asia or Africa.

    Your sweet little based Kurdish militias’ permission won’t factor into the removal of US bases from that territory. That is currently being conducted by the Axis of Resistance.

    To return to the remarkably simply question which preceded your gibbering recitation of the Washington-approved narrative, I define illegal as in flagrant violation of international law, not what is legal in the minds of Redditors who like to fantasize about going and LARPing as a war criminal before getting interviewed by Rolling Stone.

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      28 days ago

      Okay let me just say a Middle Eastern guy: This comment is an insult to the hundreds of thousands of Syrians who had to flee their homes to escape Assad’s tyranny and you should feel bad for making it.

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        28 days ago

        Standpoint epistemology is not an argument, babe.

        Out of curiosity, Turkey, Jordan, Egypt? Saudi Arabia, even? Do go on.

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          28 days ago

          Egypt, why do you ask?

          Standpoint epistemology is not an argument, babe.

          The existence of 5 million Syrian refugees worldwide (as opposed to 23 million living in the country) says everything that needs to be said about your point that Assad isn’t actually that bad. If he wasn’t people would go to his territory instead of going to fuckin Lebanon.

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            28 days ago

            One of my best online friends is Egyptian, by the way. He talks about Israel’s geopolitical role keeping Arab countries deindustrialized.

            He talks about what worms many Egyptians are about Israel. He talks about those who aren’t often change their tune after being tortured. I talk to him almost every day. So don’t feel written off because you’re Egyptian. Just because they’ve really done a number on Egypt. Samir Amin talks a lot about how its emergence was stymied by imperialists. You live in a comprador state half beaten to death, and you gloat over how many refugees there are from Syria, a country illegally occupied by US coalition. Pig. Pig!

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              28 days ago

              you gloat over how many refugees there are from Syria,

              Don’t put words in my mouth. I never gloated about anything.

              a country illegally occupied by US coalition

              Huh? How does that even make sense? Syria is in a civil war that’s being abused by foreign powers on all side. Nobody is occupying anything. I have literally never heard a Syrian say anything about an occupation; all of them are running from the war. I know US presence in Syria is also fucked up stares at ISIS, but that doesn’t make Assad any less horrible.

              Again, as an Egyptian I know as common sense that Assad is one of the worst tyrants of the 21st century (so far; we still have 75 years to go). I’d link sources, but if you believed them we’d never be having this conversation. Goodbye.

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            28 days ago

            Egypt would have been my choice if I only got one guess. You really don’t know why?