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   AnarchoNinaWrites (anarchoninawrites@jorts.horse)'s status on Sunday, 08-Dec-2024 15:37:30 JST AnarchoNinaWrites

   This was helpful to clarify some of what I'm wondering re: the way this is being presented in American media and what Pig Empire power hopes to gain from the way it's being presented.

   https://crimethinc.com/2024/12/02/the-syrian-civil-war-resumes-perspectives-on-the-conflict-from-western-and-northeastern-syria

   Unfortunately my scroll is no longer working, so I can't identify who shared the link with me, but whoever it was - thank you.

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     AnarchoNinaWrites (anarchoninawrites@jorts.horse)'s status on Sunday, 08-Dec-2024 15:46:40 JST AnarchoNinaWrites

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     In particular, this part seems to explain at least on a surface level why US media is working so hard to stress the term "moderate" and promise me that there is *no longer* an Al-Qaeda influence (which again, is suspicious, because that very same media was pretty adamant that there never was an Al-Qaeda influence in the Syrian Civil War for a very long time while the US was directly funding rebranded Al-Qaeda brigades. Past tense; not saying that's happening now.)

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     AnarchoNinaWrites (anarchoninawrites@jorts.horse)'s status on Sunday, 08-Dec-2024 15:50:43 JST AnarchoNinaWrites

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     Also, because this keeps coming up - I do not weep tears for Bashar Al-Assad, nor do I have any questions about why Syrians who are not in a right wing/religious extremist militia wanted him gone, nor do I think the future is set in stone and I can predict it from half a world away.

     I legit just wanted to know why my media that does not care about Syrians was selling me what is clearly a coordinated narrative about one powerful faction of rebels that sounds VERY familiar to my 47 year old brain

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     AnarchoNinaWrites (anarchoninawrites@jorts.horse)'s status on Sunday, 08-Dec-2024 15:53:53 JST AnarchoNinaWrites

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     @Oggie @hannu_ikonen It helped clarify a lot for me, but I have at least a surface awareness of the prior situation from previous reading.

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     Oggie (oggie@woof.group)'s status on Sunday, 08-Dec-2024 15:53:54 JST Oggie

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     @AnarchoNinaWrites
     (it was @hannu_ikonen who shared it, I read it but still feel....very very underinformed, which is not his or anyone else's fault but mine! I just feel like someone's quoting page 100 of Critique of Reason and I'm trying to contextually catch up)