Random people’s religion has nothing to do with anything related to this horror.

Thoughts and prayers.

reaches for spatha

You see, these new laws are necessary to enforce our ancient tradition. Inventing punishments out of our asses is totally 100% a traditional thing to do. The prophet totally had foreign media and NGOs in mind when he was writing the book all those centuries ago.

Yet the Roman Empire survived and thrived for about a millennium afterwards.

Finally a peertube app that makes sense! Great news!

We’ve been here before people. 2016-2020. For your mental health, zone out of anything he says. Only what he does matters.

Well, fuck.

Right. I’m wasting my time, I see. Go troll somewhere else buddy.

That’s 1995.

Let’s swallow the Russia bit, right? Because Russian history from Ivan III to Nicholas II is basically exactly imperialist colonialism.

And then you just focus on the China bit. Yes, the westerners did that to China in the past. Does that mean that modern day China is structurally incapable of being an imperialist country in the 21st century? Or because the CCP pays lip service to socialism (while Xi tells people to train as Confucians) we’re supposed to ignore the actual capitalist nature of its economy/society?

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The USSR did not fall because of a US coup. It collapsed because of its own internal contradictions.

All right, this one just came out and is actually very good. Educate yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3s3l8Z3a-U&ab_channel=OwenJones

Tell me you don’t interact with political exiles without telling me you don’t interact with political exiles. And I’m not just talking about Syrians here.

Media interviews? You know that for a decade now there are about 6 million refugees living outside Syria, right? It’s not exactly difficult to meet them and hear what they have to say.

Your mistake is in thinking that people simply asked for democracy.

Oh excuse me for listening to what actual Syrians have been saying. You obviously know better.

The movement gained its moment from the “Arab Spring” and as regimes were being toppled, someone spray painted basically “you’re next” to Assad.

Yes, that’s called a revolutionary wave. Or are those allowed for white people of previous centuries?

The rest of your comment is apologia for (brutal) state repression. Not interested.

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But what about my “Walled Garden” politics? How will my perpetually cloudy European country be special if those people don’t give up everything to get a chance to come here?

The solution to the “refugee crisis” is addressing upstream problems.