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  • vga@sopuli.xyztoNonCredibleDefenseShits going down in Syria
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    2 days ago

    Yeah, Iran’s last democratically elected leader was Mohammed Mosaddegh, who upheld the most watered down and benign version of social democracy you can think of. He publicly opposed communism and really should’ve been an ally or at least a friend of the west.

    CIA was out of their fucking minds when they fucked that one up.






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    What most non-crazy people seem to mean by “socialism” is liberalism with a strong social safety net and public services (e.g. Nordic countries, “Democratic socialists” like Bernie Sanders, etc), which is a separate thing altogether.

    Exactly, and specifically for this thread this is not quite the same socialism what Bashar al-Assad has been going for.



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    Extremely funny you say this in this situation since there is a group here fighting for freedom and democracy but they’re stinky reds, so you’ll hate them.

    The other things you said can be accepted as opinions, but here I’ll have to correct you: In this conflict, Bashar al-Assad is the socialist (Ba’athist), and the group “fighting for freedom and democracy”, as you put it, is Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham. They are a far-right islamist religious fundamentalist terrorist organization.

    So essentially nobody in Syria is fighting for any sensible definition of democracy or freedom.




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    The Islamist militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS)

    Uh no thanks. It’s hard to be sympathetic towards any official side of that war because they’re all major assholes. Why do they only have socialists and islamists in those areas? Why hasn’t liberalism and freedom taken root in the Near East?