• NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
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    11 hours ago

    Okay let me just say a Middle Eastern guy: This comment is an insult to the hundreds of thousands of Syrians who had to flee their homes to escape Assad’s tyranny and you should feel bad for making it.

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      3 hours ago

      Standpoint epistemology is not an argument, babe.

      Out of curiosity, Turkey, Jordan, Egypt? Saudi Arabia, even? Do go on.

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        1 hour ago

        Egypt, why do you ask?

        Standpoint epistemology is not an argument, babe.

        The existence of 5 million Syrian refugees worldwide (as opposed to 23 million living in the country) says everything that needs to be said about your point that Assad isn’t actually that bad. If he wasn’t people would go to his territory instead of going to fuckin Lebanon.

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          53 minutes ago

          One of my best online friends is Egyptian, by the way. He talks about Israel’s geopolitical role keeping Arab countries deindustrialized.

          He talks about what worms many Egyptians are about Israel. He talks about those who aren’t often change their tune after being tortured. I talk to him almost every day. So don’t feel written off because you’re Egyptian. Just because they’ve really done a number on Egypt. Samir Amin talks a lot about how its emergence was stymied by imperialists. You live in a comprador state half beaten to death, and you gloat over how many refugees there are from Syria, a country illegally occupied by US coalition. Pig. Pig!