deadken posted:i get that people want to give more credence to the baath party because anti-imperialisms but they're also a reactionary alawite elite. the revolutionaries may well be susceptible to western influence but at the same time interesting things tend to happen at moments of revolution
deadken posted:yeah i dont think the idea that Autocrats We Like are only overthrown by international conspiracies while Autocrats We Don't Like are overthrown by righteous popular revolutions is particularly tenable
hmm looks like vice.com's deadken was wrong. time to "check your liberalism" mayhaps?
discipline posted:I don't mind translating stuff if you find it, I speak the Syrian dialect pretty much anyway
can u tell me if this is pro- or anti- assad
"Bashar ya habibi Shaab"
i guess pro-assad from the youtube comments
oh wait n/m http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ1ircrT9mM
Crow posted:Fat NTC tard gets 0wned by young journo LIZZIE PHELAN, FTW
AmericanNazbro posted:damn qaddafi, not for the atrocities committed against queer people following his regime's demise, but for the inevitable legislative remarks speaking on behalf of queer people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMHP7xdmpr4#t=76
EmanuelaBrolandi posted:lol if u think russia is going to do anything w/r/t syria
But anyways, now I have a liberal-proof argument for being pro-Assad. The amount of times I've heard, "Well the communists might have had good ideas,but I know someone who used to live there and they hated it" bs...
methlabretriever posted:what are some additional reasons for supporting assad?
*squints real hard for a moment*
One Russian plane may even indeed have slightly crossed the border while maneuvering. But the real reason why the U.S. military official and Turkey claim the above “violations” is because Turkey unilaterally “moved” the Turkish-Syrian border five miles south