We really need to disabuse ourselves in this society of the notion that "speech" is just "ideas" and therefore harmless. Language is the greatest persuasive tool that we have, and those with large platforms don't just hurt feelings but can also motivate violent action with their words.

i open this app apparently at the exact moment it’s going to shit

boy i sure do never post here huh

I do, ultimately, feel empathy for those who wanted to feel hopeful about Syria. I personally, deep down, hoped against hope things would somehow turn out fine, even if I knew they wouldn’t But I’m not gonna forget the slander against those who were pointing out the realities, including me

Videos coming from Syria of executions of minorities. People are excusing it by acting as though those being killed were pro-Assad To say this is highly reminiscent of the rhetoric used to justify the deaths of Palestinians because they’re “Hamas” is an understatement

i’m trans. reporting this story nearly killed me. had to stop drinking and wound up on many friends “call to see if she’s ok” lists. please share it. (i’m ok now that it is done.)

liberals will literally call you a tankie for having a position you’ve already been vindicated on

if this Luigi guy really is the Claims Adjuster, he’s perhaps the very first radical-median-voter

real shame too. i’d love nothing more than to show off my banger twitter drafts and unfinished imovie edits to pigs

Rule of thumb: Anyone who uses the term “tankie” unironically isn’t worth listening to about anything. The fact they call those pointing out that what may lie ahead for Syria may be worse than before “Assadists” just shows their analysis is stuck in a Marvel cinematic universe of “good vs bad guys.”

If you think of yourself as progressive or leftist but your political analysis is 90% talking about Trump, you aren't.

I feel no joy in being vindicated in the predictions I’ve made about Syria, nor amusement in the confusion of those who genuinely did not understand the full context. I mostly just feel frustrated and sad

Reading about marxist feminism and seeing, in historical sexist rhetoric in marxist circles (a problem that still exists) similar patterns to ableist and chauvinistic rhetoric in modern organizations 🤔

As usual, Fidel is spot on 🎯

I guess they never learned from Iraq and Libya.

So many leftists are currently operating with the same “real life is like a movie” brain that libs and conservatives do

Per the PFLP:

You guys have got to stop assuming people who live in a country are always experts on geopolitics as it pertains TO their country. Most people in ANY country are not extremely well-versed in the relevant geopolitical matters, meaning they can absolutely, very easily, be incorrect.

Got added to a “feds” blocklist, an “assadists” blocklist, and yet another “tankies” blocklist, which is deeply funny to me tbh

See, this is how I know for a fact “tankie” as an insult has no real definition. They call me a tankie for pointing out all that has happened is an advancement of the Greater Israel project. Indeed, I am a tankie for opposing IDF tanks. And in the hours since this post, I have been vindicated.

liberals: CAN’T YOU BE HAPPY THE SYRIANS ARE LIBERATED YOU TANKIES! smart people:

I know everyone’s eyes are on Syria right now, but please don’t forget that they’re still bombing Gaza as we speak.

⚡️ Urgent massacre in #Rafah: - While the #Palestinians were heading to the flour stores in the Istanbul Supermarket on Awni Dahir Street, the occupation bombed them with 7 missiles directly.

🏴‍☠️🇹🇷🇺🇸⚔️🇸🇾 HTS shooting at the cars of Syrian citizens in Ma'arba square in Damascus

to be clear, Assad himself is as big a part of why this happened as anything. Just because he’s preferable to what is to come after his ousting, doesn’t mean his ideological and strategic failures that played a part in getting us here in the first place should be ignored

I think the best evidence for this is scholars from around the world that treated social sciences with some semblance of science, even before Marx in his tour-de-force. Before we got the (correct) Darwinism we got Lamarckism, and before Marxism we got whatever Ibn Khaldun was cooking, yk?

US backed regime change is bad actually.

I think we need to be careful about the way we talk about communism sometimes, because while it is true dialectical materialism is objectively a universally applicable framework (something people should be wary of dismissing out of hand), there is often a euro-assumptive way of talking about it

I figured everyone who unironically uses “tankie” as an insult had already blocked me given I’m on multiple “tankie” blocklists

westerners showing their ass for the nth time

As Asad Abukhalil said in a recent interview, "I've condemned Bashar al Assad over the years. I was banned from Lebanon over an article I wrote on Hafez al Assad. But the reality is today there are two camps in the Middle East: One includes Israel and one opposes it. Choose."

Syria has US, Israeli, Turkish, Iranian, Russian and Iraqi troops on the ground already; and the carving of the country up into zones of influence will only accelerate now. Sometimes, Mehdi, you come across as painfully naive. I'm worried for Syria.

"I'm so pro-palestine that i support a pro-israel offshoot of al qaeda and an israeli invasion of syria" certainly is a wild take im seeing on my timeline

Anyway, a lot of “pro-Palestine” supporters celebrating a major blow to the Resistance today

Just a reminder that the entire Palestinian resistance has gone on record as being opposed to this takeover of Syria

Beg to differ www.mintpressnews.com/how-the-us-a...

The Syria situation is complex, but the correct stance to have on it as a communist is very simple and clear, which is why I consider this to be a litmus test for communists. Palestine is a lot more clear-cut even on a surface level but this requires some real critical thinking

Here we go... At least 4 airstrikes targeted the Quneitra countryside on the border of southern Syria and the occupied Golan after IOF tanks entered the area Zionist forces are reportedly digging a large trench on the border and have destroyed what they claim are weapons depots.

Anybody celebrating this I'd like to see your posts from when Libya fell and turned into open slave auctions

*listening to some future season of blowback* man, who knew?!

Welp, here's hoping Syria's next government isn't the ex-Al Qaeda guys who were equipped by the Pentagon and the CIA and who are in regular contact with Tel Aviv

It's Iraq part 2 and people can't understand the world is more complicated than a marvel movie

It’s ok to complain, but never give up. The task is arduous for a reason

Assad is very bad, but what's really important in this very moment is realizing that HTS and similar groups could be DETRIMENTAL to the entire fabric of our being. Not only for Syrians, but for ALL of us. Our brothers and sisters in Palestine, Iraq, Yemen, Lebanon, Iran...

⚡️ #Israeli media outlet: Reports that "rebels" in #Syria have been exchanging messages with "Israel" since the beginning of the events (No shit, this has all been an orchestration of the US empire)

Also how does the overthrow of the Syrian gov't — a key player in the Axis of Resistance — bring us closer to a liberated Palestine, when leaders of the "rebels" have openly called for normalization with Israel? bsky.app/profile/radi...