Comment on This Syrian man hid his private library in his home in the city of Damascus out of fear of the Assad regime, where the mere presence of a banned books could lead you to prison

• FiniteBanjo@feddit.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  And yet a few days ago the brutal terrorism courts that killed people for owning books were dismantled and all previous decisions nullified. And yet the Kurds and Turkey are no longer viciously fighting each other.

  I’m not going to say the theocratic and sexist new government is good, but it’s sure as fuck better than Assad.

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  • LocalAreaMan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about.

    They’re setting the streets on fire as we speak, while the jihadi “security forces” open fire on protesters. And they’re Sunni protesters, FFS.

    Where’s the “white hats” now? 🙄

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    • FiniteBanjo@feddit.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Only news I can find about protests is over fuel prices.

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      • LocalAreaMan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        So it’s okay to shoot them?

        Kinda ironic, since the decade+ civil war was all over securing a pipeline to Europe, same as Ukraine. Any objective historians of the future will see these as the Pipeline Wars.

        Just one difference.

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