1,867 Free Syrians have been displaced in Idlib the last 24 hours by Russian and Assad-regime aerial bombing and shelling.
But we can’t blame Jewish people for this one, so don’t worry about it!
Of course, there’s nothing surprising about this to anyone who has been paying attention. Leftists control these information channels and selectively activate them in ways that advance fascism on terms they approve. Free Syrians, largely comprised of rural Sunni Arabs, along with Jewish people, have long marked for extermination by leftist epistemics, so news that supports either goal goes viral - or doesn’t.
That’s why for ten years the trickle of posts like the above get a handful of likes by the same people while thousands of posts about the Sheikh Jarrah squatters getting evicted after twenty years of not paying their rent get millions from people all over the world.
That’s also why there’s been a sudden turn among the broader “Left” toward Syria - just as I said would happen after the fall of Daraa. At that point, the Revolution was “lost” [it isn’t - one drone strike could end the regime, but leftists will do everything in their power to ensure that never happens], giving leftists the space to safely “support” what remained of Free Syria. Leftists could win doubly- they would be able to say they had a moral high ground over their opponents who don’t even talk about Syria without endangering their supply of useful martyrs they could draw from (or ignore) at will.
And indeed, now as Free Syrians are crammed into an increasingly thin snake of land along the Turkish border, the cause of Syria only gets more and more traction among the broader Left. This is even as they torpedo anything that could actually save what remains of Free Syria or even grant it victory.
Let’s be real. Leftists love nothing more than piles of corpses they can claim as martyrs, and they’ve done every single thing they could to ensure and endless supply of them from Syria. Now all the dynamics are in place to ensure the stream never ends - and that Western countries remain fully demobilized against fascism and prone to collaboration with the Axis.
What will this look like? And why is this happening now? Aren’t I just being overly cynical, and we need to support this new turn of the tide against “the tankies?”
People can change, right?
Actually, that’s not what’s happening. There’s a very simple explanation for this sudden interest in Syria - it’s not 2013 anymore and the old methods of demobilization need to be updated. There are no airstrikes on the table for Code Pink to derail. Leftists need another way to put the knife in the heart of Free Syria and Western democracies.
That’s all this is - the saboteurs are adapting their strategies to new political realities. Leftists in all circumstances want fascists to win, and the reality of their sudden embrace of Free Syria proves this.
Let’s take this week’s most obvious example - Ana Kasparian’s sudden “thrashing” of Aaron Mate. Don’t worry, this is all leftist kayfabe. Kasparian and the Young Turks could have denied Mate a platform instead of giving him one for years at any time over the last decade, but back then the stakes were higher - millions of Syrians had yet to be killed, maimed, raped, and displaced. Fascism still had to emerge as a global force. The timing for a “principled” stand just wasn’t right. Leftists could needed these events to pass, and took actions to ensure they did.
Once this new reality was established, leftists could then move in and burnish their revolutionary reputation by picking the low-hanging fruit - in this case, by attacking decoys like Aaron Mate, Max Blumenthal, Ben Norton and the dreaded JIMMY DORE, thereby obscuring the role of the Left in ensuring the success of the Syrian Genocide and creating false distance between themselves and the “real” problem - a surfer dude, a guy with daddy issues, a creepy incel, and some rich guy with no discernible talent.
Predictably, on the “activist” front, Thorneism-Soellerism-Let-Them-Die-ism has achieved hegemony among the newtruppen leftist Syrian Revolution “supporters,” the vast majority of whom “were” Assadists until recently (and remain so, if their Assadism is a softer form). TSLTDism similarly allows leftists to simulate support for Free Syria while channeling leftist death drives again into de facto support for Assad.
Both the Thorneist and Soellerist wings approach this goal in different ways, but both are about equally insidious. The end goal of both approaches is to ensure that Assad remains in power but that leftists accrue the political capital of having “fought” him while continuing the sabotage of genuine antifascist struggle.
Of course, since leftists always support fascism, now that I am finally objectively analyzing this ideological architecture after countless unprovoked personal attacks from these corners, made with the sole intent of discrediting the true antifascism of my peer group, which is among the most advanced in the English-speaking world, the fence-sitting Good On Syria leftists will run interference for these forms of pseudoresistance and police me, saying that I’m the one who is being divisive and making this personal, actually.
With that out of the way, we can explore how each wing of this pseudoresistance functions.
In the case of Thorneism, the sabotage comes in the solution stage after a relatively accurate description of the actual dynamics of the Revolution. Under Thorneism, all Democrats are Bad on Syria (even though this is demonstrably not true); therefore, Elizabeth Warren and The Progressives (TM) are actually who should receive our Syria lobbying, as they better match “progressive” social goals (also not true).
This preference for Warrenism is maintained even as Warren said on national TV during a televised presidential debate that she wouldn’t stop Assad’s genocide as it entered its final stages, which was foiled solely by Turkey imposing a military solution just hours after Warren said was impossible.
That isn’t even to mention the pro-Axis inclinations of The Squad and the wider “progressive” wing of the Democratic Party, which is actually composed of right-wing ethnonationalists in woke camouflage who love to repeat anti-Semitic propaganda about Israel from the architect of apartheid himself.
Soellerism, on the other hand, is more obviously rife with Aryanists with Assadist ties and Islamomismiaists, but goes to greater lengths to appeal to left-libertarian Revolution “supporters.”
Soellerism seeks to primarily uphold the fiction that you can oppose Assad and “intervention,” even as it wholeheartedly supports the PKK spinoff entity controlling much of northeast Syria, which itself is propped up entirely by American and Assad regime military support.
Indeed, Soellerism holds this absolute rejection of international intervention against the Assad regime point of pride. Soellerists delight in the fact that they ensured that Syrians never received a no-fly zone or airstrikes against ground artillery, both of which caused the vast majority of Free Syrian casualties. They are ecstatic that they denied Syrians the international intervention which was required to topple Assad’s regime and to prevent Russia’s inevitable entry to protect or restore him.
Because nothing says true leftism and “anti-imperialism” like supporting both the US strategy of Assad regime preservation and giving Russia and Assad space to implement fascist counterrevolution via genocide, thereby establishing the foundation of a new thanatocratic world order.
Of course, leftist Syrians and an assortment of hip Balkan/Levantine film aficionados aren’t immune to the leftist death drive and give these pseudoresistances plausible deniability. Rather than challenge their leftist orthodoxy on “intervention,” the Syrian Revolution e-ristocracy insists on sloganeering about the importance of “solidarity,” how “all of our struggles are interconnected,” and other empty words that exist, functionally, to ensure that no people in a position to create a movement to agitate to save the lives of Syrians and to strangle the new fascist order in its cradle ever achieves the critical mass to do so. You’re supposed to watch this sad movie about Bosnia and listen to this podcast about Good Alawites instead.
Both Thorneism and Soellerism are effectively united in one goal - ensuring no Free Syrian gets out alive from the slaughterhouse unless the leftists want them to.
Of course, we can’t say that out loud. Instead we have to tell ourselves that yes, Elizabeth Warren is chomping at the bit to topple Assad, or is at least a less-worse option than every other Dem. Yes, calling Free Syrians “jihadis” and congratulating ourselves for ensuring there would be plenty of refugees to support is the best way to support the cause of Free Syria. Max Blumenthal is the reason why leftists support Assad, because leftists only started supporting Assad in 2015 and you’re not just mad he makes your close-knit “pro-Pal” circle look bad to you and your friends.
So what’s the point of all these theatrics? It’s quite simple - leftists get to keep leaning on the doors of Assad’s slaughterhouse and can drown out the screams with cheers for “solidarity” and lengthy condemnations of fall guys like Aaron Mate. By doing this, leftists win in two ways - they give their fascist allies more time to advance on the ground and also get to posture for political bystanders as the true antifascists, thereby gaining the political capital necessary to sabotage genuine antifascist struggle as it exists today.
This adaptation in necessary in an environment where there is a growing awareness of the fascist threat and its international nature. A toothless form of “support” for Syria is just what the Left needs to impress those who are just tuning in.
After all, you have to listen to them about this stuff - who else is talking about Syria!
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Hey Bappin I belive Americans and Russians should face Nuclear hellfire from Pakistan in order to wipe out support for the Assad regime and help Turkey in establishing a true liberal democracy. What are your thoughts?