We must tear asunder the past before we can truly deserve the future.
Maybe not the wisest decision when Israeli ministers are saying “you’re next, Syria” and you might want some decentralized forces.
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If the Zionist entity attacks, those mercenaries would be on their side. In fact, they asked, practically screamed, for Zionist help when they were collapsing last year. And that was all done in the open. But unfortunately for them, their mercenary luck was out, since they had no place in the new arrangements and plans for the region (unless they go to fight in Iran of course, which was where everyone thought their Qandil-origin PKK leaders were going, but it's not clear yet whether that's going to materialize).
That's a very funny sanitized (I believe what the kids call it) westoid "version of events".
Kurdish-led Syrian
Non-"Kurds" left. And the PKK "ideological" fighters are not Syrian. Many Syrian Kurds are not ideologically PKK-aligned. Many of them would in fact be annoyed with the current heads in Demascus because they are not Muslim enough (anymore), not because they are not PKK enough.
at the forefront of the battle against the Islamic State jihadist group
Everyone fought ISIS, and the only ones who fared well without aerial cover were actually other jihadists.
The YPG couldn't even compete against ragtag mercenaries propped up by Turkey, because the aerial cover this time was supporting the other side.
And it's those ragtag mercenaries the YPG was skirmishing with for years before 2024, while having an underground economy with them and everyone else (where crystal meth transcended supposed battle lines).
After being Syria’s most highly trained and organized paramilitary force
Is that why this mercenary force with pretend yet confused marxist ethno-nationalist zionist-loving one-man ideology lost more than half of their territory in 48h? 🤣
the SDF was promptly dropped by Washington
It was promptly dropped by the Arab part of their mercenary organization too, hence the 48h collapse mentioned above.
What does "isn't real" mean?
Is anyone selling the false reality that meritocracy perfectly exists, especially at the highest socioeconomic level?
Conversely, what does exist is that retarded notion that developed over the last decade or two that attacks meritocracy itself (Equity vs. Equality, The Post-Meritocracy Manifesto, ...etc). A notion that replaces any serious examination of why meritocracy itself doesn't exist, for some self-serving tokenism, and some demands for high remuneration for bullshit work, in arguments that are ironically, but not surprisingly, not dissimilar to how some management types justify their high pay.
I guess it's good for Radio Free Asia to have competition.
Real power doesn't exchange hands at the ballot box. And to think it does is the most laughable a notion. But much investment goes into conditioning (a nicer word than brainwashing) people to subscribe to it.
Some contrarians take this too far and use the framing "Democracy is a lie". But the reality is, it's not necessarily a lie, but rather, it's just largely inconsequential when the brokenness exists at a higher level (the modern nation state itself, its establishment, and both their interconnections with inter and extra national powers). In that reality, the voting process is not a tool for the masses, but rather a tool to distract and contain them.
Consulting people, via voting or any other method, is still desirable of course, but only after that brokenness is taken care of.
The best way to get full access to fediverse data (including e.g. voting) is to run your own instance. So what instances, do we think, are operated by bad actors, irrespective of their identity or nature❓🤔
Or to get more conspiratorial, a bad actor would need one or more big instances to collect that info without sticking out. So which big instances, do we think, would be willing to give, or sell, a "bad actor" full access❓😉
(This of course assumes that none of the big instances were created by bad actors).
In any case, if you're posting overton wrongthink™, and not doing it (pseudo-)anonymously, then you're doing it wrong. I mean, you're in a network/platform that goes as far as encouraging you to use multiple accounts, so what's stopping you from doing it right?!
I'm not a close (or any kind of) follower of these dramas, but judging by the kind of unhinged "fans" PieFed seemed to attract, and the expressed reason(s) for that attraction, I wouldn't be surprised at all if trying to appease them for months is taking a heavy toll.
it’s not about robocalls.
Nothing was ever really about "le evil pedophiles" or "protecting children" either. Yet, using that excuse seems to work wonders with the gullible masses, including many people here, I would imagine.
The Israel project was misguided from the beginning, but it could have been justified in the immediate aftermath of the holocaust. Now?
European Jews* grabbing land and displacing people in another continent to create a new faux-nation, all facilitated by the British empire (with help from the French, and the already mentioned soviets) is "justified" because they suffered a holocaust! at the hands of Nazis who actually had an agreement with Zionists before the war (yes, Nazi Germany itself was on the list of facilitators, together with soviets)!
I'm not necessarily attacking you personally btw. I'm just showing that your positioning, common among some mainstream leftists today, is neither historically informed, nor logically, intellectually, or morally consistent. This positioning, precise in its "filtering", is designed specifically to score points in the mainstream right-left political theater. A theater that has staunch Zionists in every faction, to the point where Zionism was often the easiest uniting factor one can point to.
That is not to say that all apparent opposition to Zionism in mainstream politics is fake. But whatever genuine opposition that exists out there, is an opposition to factions within Zionism, not Zionism itself. And it's often an extension of local/national factional fights within that theater.
* Many were atheist and non-religious cultural Jews btw.
So that was an actual Hitler quote. The Hitler, not someone random a kid is calling Hitler.
And as I expected, no one even recognized it, and it even got an upvote from a neolib (receipts saved). And why not, it's a good quote, irrespective of its source!
This is yet another proof that people who shout "Nazi bar" everywhere (except the senate, congress, ...) actually know nothing about Nazis, the real actual Nazis, not whoever is getting the tag in the latest witch hunt, deservedly or (often) otherwise.
Anyone with a functioning intellectual brain recognized from day one that this manic genetic-fallacy guilt-by-association combo on the loose was itself a manifestation of the anti-intellectual post-truth new normal.