Hear, hear.

Every authoritarian government has its supporters, without they would never survive.

And that's the thing: those people are absolutely maddening to argue with. In Gaza, the war crimes were (and still are being) live streamed, and the question was how is there still any doubt. Some of those same people see videos of the protests and the people identifying bodies in makeshift morgues and somehow argue their way around it.

I hope the protesters are successful. I know a Syrian family who fled the war. I coincidentally met some of them on their shift the day the Assad regime was toppled. One of them said, "we can breathe now". Meanwhile in the middle of the city the people were celebrating. It's hard to describe how happy I felt for all of them.

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When you're kinda worried what the state of your country is gonna be like after your pro-democracy protests topple the regime and your homie says, "Hey, look at how great the Syrians have it!"

  • Damarcusart [he/him, comrade/them]
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    2 months ago

    What about the crimes being live streamed in Syria now? What about the open brutality of ISIS now that they run the place?

    Oh, but fuckin' CNN doesn't talk about that, so their "Syrian family" that they know doesn't know about that either.

    Why is it every single time the US topples a government, some yank on reddit always happens to know a group of people from there and they always celebrate. Certainly couldn't just be yanks making up their "I have a black friend" bullshit, and even if these people are real, it certainly couldn't be them going "Oh shit, the racist white guy I work with is asking me about the government being destroyed by the US, I'd better say I'm happy or else he'll probably report me to ICE or something."

    If Reddit had existed back when Gaddafi's government was toppled, these same accounts would be saying the exact same thing as they do now. They probably have some list of templates they use and just ctrl+f replace the name of the country.

    I know a few Iraqis who are old enough to remember Saddam and when they are amongst themselves, they talk about how the country was better under him than under US occupation. Not "good" but the brutality was far less severe, even during the 90s with the sanctions things were still better. Of course, if some random white guy asks them about it they have to say that they are "grateful" to the west for "liberating" them out of fear of that white guy starting shit and maybe even getting them deported. Australia is a really Islamiphobic country and Muslims here often need to just lie to placate the casual white racist.

  • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    Also gotta love the idea that the people justifying the genocide in Gaza have anything to do with the critics of the protests in Iran.