General Politics XII World • Page 433

hope we get what happened with DeSantis where the guy who made it was a 4chan poster who snuck in a bunch of Nazi shit

 

the phrase "arab spring" is a western media phrase. it itself was not a CIA op.

 

he thinks its a "how to" book.

 

No, pretty clear that there were, especially in the first year or two, a lot of genuine popular uprisings. At least a couple of the 'revolutionary' governments that came out of it were also not at all what the US would've wanted, most notably the Muslim Brotherhood government in Egypt that was overthrown by a military dictator with American support. Tunisia was similar, except the MB affiliated party was much less popular and so its overthrow needed less American help.

Both of these ended up pretty status quo at the end of the decade compared to the start, Egypt led by a comprador for "Israel" and the US and Tunisia led by a nominally anti-zionist elected strongman that also desires integration into the western economic oarder, this time somewhat more Islamist.

Libya and Syria both start with anti-zionist anti-American regimes end up in brutal civil wars where the opposition is generally much more radical islamists than the MB that was intolerable in Egypt, but gets American support. For obvious reasons. Libya was probably the least organic protest movement of the bunch, but there was definitely some unrest especially among the tribes. It's always been a weird state.

But Syria definitely also had some legitimate protestests to start. The non-organic part in Syria is the power and longevity of the Salafist militia groups, the FSA/Idlib Government etc. Obviously the anti-American government is part of the reason those groups were so strongly supported there, but there's also the closeness of the regime to Iran (which is not something you'd get from eg MB gvmts) and, I think underratedly, it's geography. Bordering Iraq, Turkey, Lebanon, AND Israel is not a very fun "neighborhood." A huge amount of the ISIS and FSA in Syria fighters were and have been foreign fighters, at least half usually, sometimes 2/3rds. From all over, but especially Iraq.

 

These both say Not Found.

 

weird, seems to be just the embed, if I click it goes through. although does look like the other one is a locked account

 

He can’t be that dumb. The “establishment” is what it is because it’s beholden to the rich and corporate class. All Trump is doing is cutting out the middle man and putting billionaires directly in power. It’s just lifting the veil, it’s not a thumb in the eye of the establishment at all

 

He is that dumb

 

I can't see either one if I click through.

 

you're right, in incognito same for me, must have it cached. the tweet is still up though. i wonder if its something to do with it being a "graphic" video. mine is this:

 

Interesting (concerning, somewhat scary) and not implausible theory:

 

I wish I understood more about Pakistan. There's been a lot of tribal violence and political violence in the last week is what I mainly know.

 

What does this mean

 

"Probably time to figure out what all this Gaza malarkey is about"

 

I just saw 3 cyber trucks during a 5 minute drive, please make it stop

 

Holding it upside down immediately made me think of trump with the bible lol