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babyfinland posted:

pogfan1996 posted:

if anyone is looking for a good rebuttal of that "______ is neoliberal and shouldnt be defended" ultra-left nonsense here ya go

https://return2source.wordpress.com/2011/09/27/marxism-bourgeois-nationalism/

you're an insane person lol


you're an ideologically inconsistent and shameless person with no appetite control. no 'lol' here because it's actually fairly sad

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lots of times people become what theyre told they are. the soft bigotry of low expectations has definitely made tom obese by this point, no doubt about it. he gorges himself at golden corral because it is expected of him
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The hero with a thousand state department faces presents: How I stopped worrying and learned to love alqaida
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it's not what's on the outside that matters. tom will always be fat in here *taps head*
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Shout out to the insane crazy weirdos who were hopping mad in the 80s about the CIA death squads chopping up 100,000s of poor indigenous peoples in central America using money from cocaine sales to destroy the black communities, instead of being into health food or champagne
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Since you're a twitter user now tpaine I'll just put clap emojis everywhere instead of periods

All these new fangled internet users with no idea what those sa phrases mean :'(
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Kurds
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isn't fighting ISIS a good thing? it's not like they are saying "we will use the kurds as a wedge to drive into assad and destroy syria"
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i think the point is that the whole point of fighting isis is vexed in syria where getting rid of assad appears to be a higher priority to a lot of important sectors of the USG, so using the kurds as a proxy against isis (which is effectively a US proxy itself, at least in syria) becomes less coherent
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https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/10ANKARA268_a.html

Kurdish regional government - turkey - US collaboration against the pkk
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ilmdge posted:

Kurds

one thing that really shines through in all of these leaks is the basic inability of these people to type, format or even competently send any length of text

#537
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That's because it was all faked by Putinist russkee hacker spies who can break into the Gibson while hanging upside down in the mission impossible vault but are really drunk and don't speak English
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this excerpt from the full email is even better

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/3774

4. Armed with proper equipment, and working with U.S. advisors, the >> Peshmerga can attack the ISIL with a coordinated assault supported from the >> air. This effort will come as a surprise to the ISIL, whose leaders >> believe we will always stop with targeted bombing, and weaken them both in >> Iraq and inside of Syria. At the same time we should return to plans to >> provide the FSA, or some group of moderate forces, with equipment that will >> allow them to deal with a weakened ISIL, and stepped up operations against >> the Syrian regime. This entire effort should be done with a low profile, >> avoiding the massive traditional military operations that are at best >> temporary solutions. While this military/para-military operation is moving >> forward, we need to use our diplomatic and more traditional intelligence >> assets to bring pressure on the governments of Qatar and Saudi Arabia, >> which are providing clandestine financial and logistic support to ISIL and >> other radical Sunni groups in the region. This effort will be enhanced by >> the stepped up commitment in the KRG. The Qataris and Saudis will be put >> in a position of balancing policy between their ongoing competition to >> dominate the Sunni world and the consequences of serious U.S. pressure. By >> the same token, the threat of similar, realistic U.S. operations will serve >> to assist moderate forces in Libya, Lebanon, and even Jordan, where >> insurgents are increasingly fascinated by the ISIL success in Iraq

#539
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An event I'm attending soon is going to use the opportunity to also raise funds for the White Helmets. I believe they've just fallen for the propaganda and aren't being guided by the State Department or anything like that, so I'm going to bring it to their attention that they're trying to give money to terrorists who are already well funded by the USA. I'll lift any useful sources from this thread for my case, but I'd really appreciate any more useful sources, tips, or tricks for doing this. I'm specifically concerned that giving links to articles from lesser known websites might be off putting, even if they have primary sources within.
I'm thinking of suggesting that they instead send the money to the real Syrian Civil Defense, as in the one that was a founding member of ICDO. Please help me rHizzonE.
#540
UNUSUALY COOL
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wait tpaine's on twitter?!?! shut this whole Web site down
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stegosaurus posted:

one thing that really shines through in all of these leaks is the basic inability of these people to type, format or even competently send any length of text



this is a moderate to strong power move in white collar jobs

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cars posted:

stegosaurus posted:


one thing that really shines through in all of these leaks is the basic inability of these people to type, format or even competently send any length of text



this is a moderate to strong power move in white collar jobs



yeah i once had to have a discussion about how apparently my informal style in intraorganizational emails intimidated some people. i was just trying to make policy discussions less dry. whoops!

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maybe you pissed off some higher-up because the point of most internal emails as far as i can tell is for the people at lower levels to look like they spent half an hour getting their tone and language to match the latest buzzwords and for the people above them to look like ten year olds operating an iphone with one end of a half-eaten burrito
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https://citeam.org/here-s-why-assad-s-army-can-t-win-the-war-in-syria/

russian officer very critical of the syrian army
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xipe posted:

https://citeam.org/here-s-why-assad-s-army-can-t-win-the-war-in-syria/russian officer very critical of the syrian army



khodarenok suggests here that assad fire his generals, which is what stalin did in 1941, but "it's what stalin did" makes anything sound like a good idea... idk.

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xipe posted:

https://citeam.org/here-s-why-assad-s-army-can-t-win-the-war-in-syria/russian officer very critical of the syrian army



enormous load of shit

#547
Mike Nelson here.
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Here's the petition:

http://handsoffsyriacoalition.net/

It is written in Wilsonian liberal language which attributes rights to nations and in a careful way to avoid any concrete discussion of Syria, which is treated as a black box about which one can never have opinions, which is anti-Marxist, but I'd probably support it it if I were an American politician.
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According to the Marxist theory of the state, the online petition is the chief component of state power. Whoever wants to seize and retain state power must have a strong webzine. Some people ridicule us as advocates of the "twitterverse". Yes, we are advocates of the omnipotence of collecting random names in a digital database; that is good, not bad, it is Marxist. The clickbait of the Russian Communist Party created socialism. We shall create a democratic republic. Experience in the class struggle in the era of imperialism teaches us that it is only by the power of the blog that the working class and the laboring masses can defeat the armed bourgeoisie and landlords; in this sense we may say that only with online petitions can the whole world be transformed.

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damn. tfw u have the body of dog the bounty hunter and ur 30
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hello these are your private rescue services brought to you by the shadow world government, would you like our 911 service or our 9/11 service?

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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/10/20/world/middleeast/ap-syria-the-latest.html?_r=0

Syria's military command is threatening to shoot down any Turkish warplane that enters the Syrian air space.

Thursday's announcement came after Turkish jets raided several villages held by Syrian Kurdish forces the previous day in Syria's northern Aleppo province where the Kurdish forces and Turkish-backed Syrian rebels are jostling for territory once held by the Islamic State group.
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Turkey kills 160 to 200 Syrian Kurdish militants in airstrikes

jaysis
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So I put up a bunch of the 'hands off' posters around my school and they were all taken down in two weeks. Fucking Liberal arts colleges.

Also, I carved a hammer and sickle into a pumpkin and put it outside my door and someone smashed it last night. Every other pumpkin on my floor was left untouched.

e: Do you think I can get a bunch of white nationalists to donate to a gofundme for healing purposes?
#556
Dont Mess With Sucess
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If you end up getting truck dragged I'm going to post twice as hard in your memory. I hope you are trying to find a local org!
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Ty ty. I'm not in an org because I'm somewhat 'out in the sticks'. When I get back to the city I'm planning on joining the Communist Party of Canada. I have a good comrade there.
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Cool avoid using the word comrade though it makes you look like a larper.
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whatever do you mean comrades?