• Belly_Beanis [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    3 days ago

    Probably because the Ba’athists became compromised by the US after some CIA meddling, coupled with increased nationalism (the Ba’ath Party advocated for a pan-Arabic state to unify the Arabs under socialism), would be my guess.

    • RedNajm [any]@hexbear.net
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      3 days ago

      Another reason is because we don’t really have social media. It’s basically all US owned so standard socialism bad BS, but even then these platforms are filled with state-sponsored trolls (dhababat, flies) who basically astroturf the whole digital space so much that you literally cannot have a voice or normal discussion with real people. I don’t even bother with arab social media, it’s genuinely unusable. It’s like how reddit and eglin AFB, but turned up to 15.

      Look up a twitter thread of somebody criticizing any arab state and see the very real and very human accounts with the flag of it as their pfp and all their posts are nationalist roll in lmao, it happens to even the mildest suckdems saying “our nation can do better”