What leftist is out there supporting Assad?
Those who think “left” is whatever Russia does
Tankies, in other words
“people I disagree with”, in other words
Assad is a friend of Russia and enemy of the West. Therefore tankies support Assad.
Are the tankies in the room with you now?
Yeah, there’s a bunch of them around, actually. Just look at the most downvoted comments and you’ll find the clowns.
If I’m going to infer political attitudes I try to make sure there’s a little more evidence than “I disagree with you”.
And that’s what “tankies” has become - a pejorative meaning “people I disagree with”
Go head downvote all you want but it’s true.
Given HTS historical ties to exteemist groups like Al Qaeda I do hope this is a good thing for all Syrians. Time will tell.
I’ll just leave this here.
Pretty much every geopolitical action we take is for our oligarch’s profit. Sabotaging regimes that wouldn’t be friendly to exploitation, installing regimes friendly to resource extraction for a song, defending good business partners doing genocide and human rights violations, etc.
Don’t mistake a broken clock like helping Ukraine with benevolence. We never have been benevolent.
We didn’t even enter WW2 as some benevolent heroes, our pacific fleet was decimated, the war came to us so we went to war to fight back. The US practiced eugenics prior to and even post WW2 though involuntary sterilization of those seen as undesirables. Had the Axis not thankfully committed the greatest strategic blunder of the 20th century, we wouldn’t have for a lot longer, if at all.
“Reject campism”
Allonzee: “But what about the BAD camp???”
What part of ‘reject campism’ did you not understand
I’m not refuting the point, I’m adding to it.
Russia, the US, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and China are all the worst of actors. Moral consistancy means being on none of their sides.
I tried but couldnt parse this post. Idk whos side this guy is on and i dont know whos side he thinks im on. Very confusing lol.
"Assad falling is good, because Assad is a dictator. The left should be against dictators, yet many on Twitter proclaimed that supporting the dictator was Good Leftism, Actually.
Syrians and Ukrainians should be supported by the left. Just because Assad and Russia are enemies of the capitalist West doesn’t mean that they should get a free pass from the left to oppress Syrians and Ukrainians.
Palestinians should be supported by Americans. Just because Israel is a nominal ally of the US doesn’t mean that they should get a free pass from Americans to oppress Palestinians.
Reject tribalism. Embrace moral consistency."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campism
Campism is the belief that the world is divided into large, competing political groups of countries (“camps”) and that people with left-wing politics should support one camp over the other camps.[1] Unlike nationalists, campists do not support any countries for reasons such as ethnicity or national identity. Instead, campists support their camp for ideological reasons, because they believe their camp promotes their ideology, such as socialism or anti-imperialism.
TIL, thank you!
Campism is basically a pejorative like neoliberal, I don’t know anyone who claims to be campist.
The wikipedia page is a pet article by some Youtuber named SocDoneLeft
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Campism&action=history
