• AItoothbrush
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    297 months ago

    I tried but couldnt parse this post. Idk whos side this guy is on and i dont know whos side he thinks im on. Very confusing lol.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      317 months ago

      "Assad falling is good, because Assad is a dictator. The left should be against dictators, yet many on Twitter proclaimed that supporting the dictator was Good Leftism, Actually.

      Syrians and Ukrainians should be supported by the left. Just because Assad and Russia are enemies of the capitalist West doesn’t mean that they should get a free pass from the left to oppress Syrians and Ukrainians.

      Palestinians should be supported by Americans. Just because Israel is a nominal ally of the US doesn’t mean that they should get a free pass from Americans to oppress Palestinians.

      Reject tribalism. Embrace moral consistency."

        • @[email protected]
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          67 months ago

          Assad has killed hundreds of thousands of his own people including using poison gas on civilians and operated a gigantic torture prison. Russia and Hezbollah helped him murder Syrians all day every day for the last decade at least. Assad also occupied parts of Lebanon for decades and murdered Lebanese politicians.

          As long as Arabs kill Arabs, people in the west don’t give a shit.

      • @[email protected]
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        127 months ago

        “yet many on Twitter proclaimed that supporting the dictator was Good Leftism”

        Well this is news.

        • @[email protected]OP
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          77 months ago

          What’s there to say. Twitter’s a shithole.

          Unfortunately, many people still use it to communicate and organize, some of whom do not belong in said shithole.

      • AItoothbrush
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        217 months ago

        Ahh i get it. But ive never heard a single person say assad was good for the left. Probably the tankies and the us left.

        • @[email protected]
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          177 months ago

          The tankie communities are definitely seeing the fall of Assad as a very bad thing. I was surprised at first, but then not surprised that they’d be supportive of dictator that aligns with Russia.

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              67 months ago

              It’s a double edged sword. Assad gone is a good thing, however it remains to be seen that it’s a good thing for the people of Syria, only time will tell. But you can’t cling onto a shitty dictator on the off chance that things might be worse. The people of Syria certainly seem to be happy about it.

              From the Tankie perspective, they couldn’t give a flying fuck about the people of Syria, only what it means for the “unity” of anti-US aligned countries such as Iran & Russia.