Bashar Hafez al-Assad (born in Damascus, September 11, 1965) is the current president of the Syrian Arab Republic, ruling since July 17, 2000 after succeeding his father, Hafez al-Assad. He has also been the president of the Syrian Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party since July 24, 2000, also upon succeeding his father.
Al-Assad graduated from Damascus University Medical School in 1988, and began working as a military doctor in the Syrian Arab Army. Four years later, he attended postgraduate studies in London, specializing in Ophthalmology. In 1994 his older brother, Basel, was killed in a traffic accident. Bashar returned to Syria to resume his brother’s role as heir apparent. He entered the military academy, and took charge of the Syrian occupation of Lebanon in 1998. In December 2000, Assad married Asma al-Assad, a computer science graduate and economic analyst at Deutsche Bank and JP Morgan.
At the beginning of his mandate, he proposed a policy of democratic change and a liberal economic opening. After 2012, he revived his liberal policies by promoting privatizations and winning new international partners such as China. He also started to promote tourism on the Syrian Mediterranean coasts.
Faced with the threat of the idea of preemptive war carried out by the US administration, the instability in Lebanon (where Syria maintained a strong military presence) and the constant tensions with neighboring Israel, Bashar al-Assad tried to have a reformist discourse that could satisfy the wishes of the European Union and the United States.
Since 2011, with the beginning of the Syrian Civil War, different Arab countries, the European Union, the United States, Turkey and other governments have demanded the resignation of Bashar al-Assad, while governments of other countries such as Iran, Russia, China, North Korea, Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador and Cuba condemn or do not support foreign intervention or a change of government in Syria.
Today he is still the President of Syria and the government controls the majority of the country, thanks mainly to Russian support and intervention in the war against ISIS, and is slowly being accepted by international organizations such as the Arab League and the UN, which had denounced him at the beginning of the civil war.
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reposting my rant because it ended up as a reply to someone else and man that was embarrassing. Yikes:
rant: I’ve been a part of underground music scenes for a long time and I fucking hate how a lot of white punks are supposed to be so radical/political but don’t have shit to say when it comes to issues of racial oppression. I moved to Oregon and it is WHITE WHITE. I never really trusted the scene royalty here, and always complained to my partner about how they seem like they suck and he just confirmed that for me. They talk about “cancel culture” and I guess one goes on drunken ramblings about “wokeism”. Like my guy, you know that is a code word for black folk and “race traitors”, right? It’s so gross I can’t stand it. I feel like it’s so much worse up here
The guy who made the Henry Stickmen games also developed Among Us
I think I went a little too hard on the 9/11 posting in this Telegram group I’m in. A mod had to ask me to stop.
I can’t wait until communism eventually takes over and people can unironically like Stalin again.
Just discovered that a new friend’s family is very religious. Just last week I was talking about how I dressed up in drag to go see Rocky Horror in front of them all completely oblivious.
General Tso’s Seitan or General Tso’s Tofu?
dyou think john dolan sounded like Otakon when he was younger
Gonna go home and have a HUGE bowl of soup fuck yeah
I’ve come to the conclusion that federated users who show their ass with a weird explicit antagonism towards this site just don’t deserve the precious bytes of data storage it takes to federate their contentthey’re just cross-site wreckers. at this point, i give them no quarter
the terminally online liberal has sent in a silly letter; we shall neither print it nor reply to it
So all of Hexbear?
Ya know, as I get older, the more I’m told better things are not possible because life is not fair. As if things weren’t substantially better for the average person (still not good though) before the 08 recession and there is no explanation for why everything has become unaffordable/comically unattainable. I just wish the average propagandized person knew how much power they had
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The fact that food is at all affordable is insane. Like, the amount of worker exploitation that goes into making a pound of beef 5 dollars is incredible.
Like, you’ve got migrant workers getting paid below minimum wage to grow feed crops and to raise the livestock. Then you’ve got meat packers making around minimum wage unless they’re union. After that, you’ve got truckers who often make below minimum wage taking it to a grocery. This is the most expensive part of the process. A union meat cutter processes and shelves it for 27 bucks an hour and then a union cashier checks it out for 20-25 an hour.
On top of this, you’ve got the federal government subsidizing the agricultural labor through SNAP and other grain subsidies. Then they subsidize the union labor through taft-hartley trusts and SNAP again. SNAP in turn is funded through taxes which are majority taken from the working class.
All while agricultural and grocery are some of the least profitable industries with farmers and grocers “only” taking 1% profit.
So many working people are living miserable or difficult lives just to make it so that a lb of beef isn’t 25 dollars. It’s insane. The food system should not be for profit.
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she monad on my monoid till i endofunct
I’d swear some of my deleted by user comments on threads on other instances, on more than one occasion, have been upvoted by fellow bears after deletion. That’s ridiculous
Ridiculously wholesome that is
Happened to me too. I wonder if there is some propagation time delays for the delete and upvotes to propagate through federation.
I’ve thought about that too and to be honest it’s a much more likely explanation but I prefer my version
WHY DID NO ONE TELL ME STARDEW VALLEY WAS SO GOOD
This is so cozy and wholesome and cute. This is the kind of game that I really want and need in my life.
