TheCultofAbeLincoln
12th May 2011, 03:05
You know, being down here in OI, I really thought that Libya was seen as the exception. While Tunisia, Egypt, Iran, Bahrain, and Syria all had legit revolutionaries, I felt Libyans were unreasonably excluded.
I was wrong. These are, believe them or not, real quotes:
Good for Assad! Western collaborationists seeking regime change should be repressed.
Yay for slaughter!
A piece of advice: Stop using al-Jazeera for your news on Syria. Their coverage on the uprising is distorted to the point where you can't even sift through the bullshit. They literally took footage of a pro-government, pro-Assad rally and claimed it was an opposition rally, incidentally because the pro-Assad rally was bigger than any of the opposition's events.
a.) al Jazeera has reported on the large pro-govt rallies, showing people chanting things like "Bashir you shall be avenged."
b.) Nuremburg always got bigger rallies than any leftist meetings in the early 1940s, when, you know, there was repression on anti-govt protests.
Is that why Communist parties in Syria aren't repressed by the Baath state, and are in fact leading members of the National Progressive Front and are represented in the People's Council of Syria?
Yeah communist parties are allowed.......while the state has privatized huge sections of the economy in recent years, an extreme upper class has emerged, and the poverty rate has skyrocketed over the last decade.
But yes I'm sure in a state where thousands of people have been disappeared for hinting at opposing the regime, that these parties are genuine working class institutions.
The Baath Party in Syria (like in Iraq) is bourgeois nationalist and seem to be economically more like a European-style Social democracy/welfare state. There are clear differences between that and fascism.
Um, no (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hama_massacre). Comparing them with a 'european social democracy' is about as disengous as one can get imo.
It was actually only after these protests began that the president declared that Kurds could, indeed, be citizens and not have to live like an underclass in their own country. But like everything else he's said, nothing has actually changed.
I was wrong. These are, believe them or not, real quotes:
Good for Assad! Western collaborationists seeking regime change should be repressed.
Yay for slaughter!
A piece of advice: Stop using al-Jazeera for your news on Syria. Their coverage on the uprising is distorted to the point where you can't even sift through the bullshit. They literally took footage of a pro-government, pro-Assad rally and claimed it was an opposition rally, incidentally because the pro-Assad rally was bigger than any of the opposition's events.
a.) al Jazeera has reported on the large pro-govt rallies, showing people chanting things like "Bashir you shall be avenged."
b.) Nuremburg always got bigger rallies than any leftist meetings in the early 1940s, when, you know, there was repression on anti-govt protests.
Is that why Communist parties in Syria aren't repressed by the Baath state, and are in fact leading members of the National Progressive Front and are represented in the People's Council of Syria?
Yeah communist parties are allowed.......while the state has privatized huge sections of the economy in recent years, an extreme upper class has emerged, and the poverty rate has skyrocketed over the last decade.
But yes I'm sure in a state where thousands of people have been disappeared for hinting at opposing the regime, that these parties are genuine working class institutions.
The Baath Party in Syria (like in Iraq) is bourgeois nationalist and seem to be economically more like a European-style Social democracy/welfare state. There are clear differences between that and fascism.
Um, no (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hama_massacre). Comparing them with a 'european social democracy' is about as disengous as one can get imo.
It was actually only after these protests began that the president declared that Kurds could, indeed, be citizens and not have to live like an underclass in their own country. But like everything else he's said, nothing has actually changed.