Poll of the Day > I'm posting here less because now I'm arguing on Twitter.

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This is awful! But I'm getting daps from some journalists I respect. I've been sucked into this via the bizarre Assad/Russia diehards on YouTube/Twitter. I didn't know there were a huge swath of people that think you can't denounce all the bad actors - Assad, Russia, the USA, and on and on.

I'm addicted, please help me. I've read too many documents.

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redpill me bro

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Honestly I think twitter causes a lot of unneeded pain and suffering to people. Plus, I don't think I ever see anyone happy they went on twitter.

DirtBasedSoap posted...

redpill me bro

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shadowsword87 posted...

Honestly I think twitter causes a lot of unneeded pain and suffering to people. Plus, I don't think I ever see anyone happy they went on twitter.

It feels about the same as other forms of social media, or even this. I'll definitely have to cut myself off.

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I wonder what the world would've looked like today if Twitter(or any social media at all) never existed.
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LeetCheet posted...

I wonder what the world would've looked like today if Twitter(or any social media at all) never existed.

A much better place, most likely.

Though I'd settle for a world where Eternal September never happened, and we all still used Usenet and had standards.
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Daps? What is that?


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ReturnOfFa posted...

I didn't know there were a huge swath of people that think you can't denounce all the bad actors - Assad, Russia, the USA, and on and on.

Welcome to my world?

And Syria is one of those conflicts we shouldn't be involved in that will invariably bite us in the ass down the road. The biggest reason we got dragged into it was because of the Obama/Kerry "Red Line" where, once the threat was made, we either had to step up or lose the perceived impact of our threats (which did eventually lead to *some* chemical weapons being turned over). However, everybody involved in the war sucks and the fact it's been a proxy war between the US and Russia has prolonged things and only made shit worse for the Syrian people, triggering a massive refugee crisis which in turn has caused issues in Europe, etc. It's an imperialist shitstorm deluxe.

I've honestly just tuned out on the whole thing at this point. We're very unlikely to see an actual resolution to anything the way things are being handled, and even if the US succeeds in yet another regime change, things are still going to be a mess and the weapons we've been funneling to terrorist groups are, rather unsurprisingly, going to be used by those same terrorist groups (or their offshoots) against America and Europe in the future, at which point we'll act surprised that arming terrorists is a bad idea despite, you know, the fact that we've already had a long history of arming terrorists being a bad idea.

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Zeus posted...

Welcome to my world?

And Syria is one of those conflicts we shouldn't be involved in that will invariably bite us in the ass down the road. The biggest reason we got dragged into it was because of the Obama/Kerry "Red Line" where, once the threat was made, we either had to step up or lose the perceived impact of our threats (which did eventually lead to *some* chemical weapons being turned over). However, everybody involved in the war sucks and the fact it's been a proxy war between the US and Russia has prolonged things and only made shit worse for the Syrian people, triggering a massive refugee crisis which in turn has caused issues in Europe, etc. It's an imperialist shitstorm deluxe.

I've honestly just tuned out on the whole thing at this point. We're very unlikely to see an actual resolution to anything the way things are being handled, and even if the US succeeds in yet another regime change, things are still going to be a mess and the weapons we've been funneling to terrorist groups are, rather unsurprisingly, going to be used by those same terrorist groups (or their offshoots) against America and Europe in the future, at which point we'll act surprised that arming terrorists is a bad idea despite, you know, the fact that we've already had a long history of arming terrorists being a bad idea.

I know we disagree on a lot, but reading this is very refreshing for me. It's insane, there are 'alternative news sources' that have done a great job with the propaganda they're being fed - The Grayzone is the first one I was confronted with. They simp for Assad 24/7 and deny the chlorine bombing of Douma in 2018.

I'm completely anti-American involvement, but it's really bizarre that people can't figure out you can hold that opinion and denounce the numerous documented war crimes perpetrated by the Assad regime. It's like being able to denounce Saddam while disagreeing with the US invasion. These kinds of politics played out back then too - certain politicians (George Galloway comes to mind first) wanted to kiss his ass and praise his leadership. Like...ok?

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