The Syria Thread 2011 - Present

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Re: The Syria Thread 2011 - Present

Postby Elvis » Fri Sep 25, 2020 2:03 am

Harvey wrote:https://thegrayzone.com/2020/09/23/syria-leaks-uk-contractors-opposition-media/

Leaked docs expose massive Syria propaganda operation waged by Western govt contractors and media
by Ben Norton, September 23, 2020, The Grayzone

Leaked documents show how UK government contractors developed an advanced infrastructure of propaganda to stimulate support in the West for Syria’s political and armed opposition.

Virtually every aspect of the Syrian opposition was cultivated and marketed by Western government-backed public relations firms, from their political narratives to their branding, from what they said to where they said it.


Epic. Seldom have I felt so vindicated. Some of my more skeptical correspondents are really gonna get it when I show them this new information. :mrgreen:
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Re: The Syria Thread 2011 - Present

Postby Harvey » Fri Sep 25, 2020 4:18 am

Elvis » Fri Sep 25, 2020 7:03 am wrote:
Harvey wrote:https://thegrayzone.com/2020/09/23/syria-leaks-uk-contractors-opposition-media/

Leaked docs expose massive Syria propaganda operation waged by Western govt contractors and media
by Ben Norton, September 23, 2020, The Grayzone

Leaked documents show how UK government contractors developed an advanced infrastructure of propaganda to stimulate support in the West for Syria’s political and armed opposition.

Virtually every aspect of the Syrian opposition was cultivated and marketed by Western government-backed public relations firms, from their political narratives to their branding, from what they said to where they said it.


Epic. Seldom have I felt so vindicated. Some of my more skeptical correspondents are really gonna get it when I show them this new information. :mrgreen:


Ha ha! Enjoy. :thumbsup
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Re: The Syria Thread 2011 - Present

Postby conniption » Fri Sep 25, 2020 4:41 am

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September 18, 2020

New Documents Reveal Secret British Efforts To Arm, Assist And Propagandize 'Moderate Rebels' In Syria

In November 2018 some anonymous people published a number of documents that had been liberated from a clandestine British propaganda organization, the Integrity Initiative.

The same group or person who revealed the Integrity Initiative papers has now released several dozens of documents about another 'Strategic Communication' campaign run by the British Foreign Office. The current release reveals a number of train and assist missions for 'Syrian rebels' as well as propaganda operations run in Syria and globally on behalf of the British government.

Moon of Alabama, as well as other sites, had published a series of pieces about the Integrity Initiative. There were also connections between the Integrity Initiative and the Skripal 'novichok poisoning' affair.

They newly released documents about British operations in Syria are accessible under:

Op. HMG Trojan Horse: From Integrity Initiative To Covert Ops Around The Globe. Part 1: Taming Syria I

Op. HMG Trojan Horse: From Integrity Initiative To Covert Ops Around The Globe. Part 1: Taming Syria II


All the now published documents archived in one file are available for download under:

https://anonfiles.com/z9B2AeRbob/Complete_FCO_rar.

Most of the documents are detailed company responses to several solicitations from the Foreign Office for global and local campaigns in support of the 'moderate rebels' who are fighting against the Syrian government and people.

The documents lay out large scale campaigns which have on-the-ground elements in Syria, training and arming efforts in neighboring countries, command and control elements in Jordan, Turkey and Iraq, as well as global propaganda efforts. These operations were wide spread.

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Most of the documents are from 2016 to 2019. They detail the organization of such operations and also portray persons involved in these projects. They often refer back to previous campaigns that have been run from 2011/2012 onward. This is where the documents are probably the most interesting. They reveal what an immense effort was and is waged to fill the information space with pro-rebel/pro-Islamist propaganda.

The documents are not about the 'White Helmets' which were a separate British run Strategic Communication campaign financed by various governments. While the operations described in the new documents were coordinated with U.S. efforts they do not reference the CIA run campaigns in Syria which included similar efforts at a cost of $1 billion per year.

The various projects and the detailed commercial offers to implement them from various notorious companies are roughly described in the above two links. I will therefore refrain from repeating that here. Some of the documents' content will surely be used in future Moon of Alabama posts. But for now I will let you rummage through the stash.

Please let us know in the comments of the surprising bits that you might find.

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Re: The Syria Thread 2011 - Present

Postby Grizzly » Sat Oct 10, 2020 12:10 am

Russia May Sell Anti-Air Missiles to Iran Despite U.S. Threats: Ambassador The U.S. has unsuccessfully pressed other nations to extend a United Nations arms embargo on Iran which is due to expire in mid-October.

https://fort-russ.com/2020/10/major-russia-ready-to-supply-s-400-to-iran/

"Russian Ambassador to Tehran Levan Dzhagaryan said that his country recognizes the expiration of UN arms sanctions against Iran on October 18 and is ready to supply the country with its S-400 air defense system."


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"Iran wants to fuck around with the US, we would do things to them that have never been done before".

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Re: The Syria Thread 2011 - Present

Postby Harvey » Wed Oct 14, 2020 8:25 pm

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Re: The Syria Thread 2011 - Present

Postby Elvis » Thu Oct 15, 2020 2:16 am

^^^^ Thanks for that!
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Re: The Syria Thread 2011 - Present

Postby Harvey » Mon Oct 19, 2020 6:34 am

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Re: The Syria Thread 2011 - Present

Postby BenDhyan » Fri Jan 22, 2021 7:57 pm

Well that didn't take long....

US military convoy enters northeast Syria: report

i24NEWS January 22, 2021

A convoy of 40 trucks and armor vehicles said to have entered Syria from Iraq

A large US military convoy entered northeastern Syria on Thursday, Syrian state news agency SANA reports, citing sources on the ground.

According to the report, the convoy included some 40 trucks and armored vehicles and was backed from the air by helicopters.

It entered Syria from Iraq via the al-Waleed crossing to bring arms and logistical equipment to the bases in Hasakeh and Deir Ezzor provinces.

Other local media report that such maneuvers are not unusual as the US often moves transfers equipment between Iraq and Syria.

At the same time, SANA also reports that some 200 US troops arrived in the Hasakeh province on helicopters.

According to the report, the troops are set to deploy on the nearby oilfields, with Kurdish-controlled eastern Syria rich in energy resources.

The US-led coalition has been working closely with the Kurds during the campaign against the Islamic State terrorist group in Syria, with Kurdish forces often working as ground coordinators for coalition jets during airstrikes.

In late 2020, then-US President Donald Trump ordered US troops withdrawn from the area to redeploy to Iraq.

https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/middle-east/1611293792-us-military-convoy-enters-northeast-syria-report

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Re: The Syria Thread 2011 - Present

Postby conniption » Fri Jan 29, 2021 10:21 am

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January 29, 2021
Syria - The U.S. Controlled Al-Tanf Serves As ‘ISIS’ Base - Truth Or Propaganda?
by Hedwig Kuijpers
( https://twitter.com/Hedwigkuijpers2 )

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Photo of US soldiers training Maghweer al-Thora forces in the al-Tanf pocket (source: Hammurabi news)

Many questions remain unanswered about the al-Tanf United States base in the Syrian desert, that is called illegal by the Syrian government and Russia. Why is al-Tanf so important to the US? What are the US soldiers still doing there? Who else are hosted in the al-Tanf pocket? Why is ISIS growing again? Is al-Tanf really a launching pad for ISIS attacks in the region?

Why is the al-Tanf base so important to the US?

The al-Tanf base is located in the al-Tanf pocket, at about 20km of the al-Tanf border crossing. It’s 55 km-deconfliction zone is located along the border with Iraq and Jordan, and cuts off the Baghdad-Damascus highway. By controlling this highway, the United States ensures that Iranian deliveries to the Syrian capital Damascus cannot take place by land. This is of high strategic importance to the US, because Iranian shipments and air deliveries are much easier intercepted, and form an easy target to Israeli airstrikes.

The US-led coalition forces use al-Tanf as an entrance point to launch operations into Syria. The base can be easily reached from both Baghdad and Jordan. Both the Syrian government and Russian officials have repeatedly stated that the al-Tanf zone are being used by terrorist groups active in the region, as a safe haven and a foothold to carry out attacks on government-held areas and Iranian proxy-groups in the Bukamal area. This ‘ISIS rear base’ has been actively protected by the forces stationed at al-Tanf, which threaten any deployment of the Syrian Arab Army, Iranian proxy-groups and Russian forces close to the al-Tanf zone. The formal justification given by the US surrounding these actions is that Syrian government troops as well as Iranian-backed forces in Syria pose a threat to US-backed ‘less-radical’ rebel groups and US troops deployed at the garrison.

Oil, Rebels, Iran, Chaos and Leverage...continues

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Re: The Syria Thread 2011 - Present

Postby conniption » Fri Feb 26, 2021 8:09 pm

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After U.S. Attack In Syrian Iran Demonstrates Its Escalation Dominance
February 26, 2021

Last night the U.S. escalated the situation in Iraq by bombing Iraqi government security forces at the Iraqi-Syrian border station near Abu-Kamal/Al-Qaim. One Iraqi soldier, a Sunni, was killed. Other sources claim that as many as 22 were killed.

The Pentagon spinmasters and their stenographers in the media use Orwellian language to justify the crime. The official press release says:

U.S. Conducts Defensive Precision Strike

Feb. 25, 2021

(Attributable to Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby)

“At President Biden’s direction, U.S. military forces earlier this evening conducted airstrikes against infrastructure utilized by Iranian-backed militant groups in eastern Syria. These strikes were authorized in response to recent attacks against American and Coalition personnel in Iraq, and to ongoing threats to those personnel. Specifically, the strikes destroyed multiple facilities located at a border control point used by a number of Iranian-backed militant groups, including Kait’ib Hezbollah (KH) and Kait’ib Sayyid al-Shuhada (KSS).

This proportionate military response was conducted together with diplomatic measures, including consultation with Coalition partners. The operation sends an unambiguous message: President Biden will act to protect American and Coalition personnel. At the same time, we have acted in a deliberate manner that aims to de-escalate the overall situation in both eastern Syria and Iraq.”


The last attack on U.S. units in Iraq happened on February 15 against a U.S. position in Erbil, Iraq. Some three small rockets were fired by an unknown group of provocateurs.

To call an attack with seven 500 pound bombs on a border station guarded by official Iraqi security forces against ISIS attacks hundreds of miles away from Erbil "defensive" and "in response" is of course ridiculous.

Katib Hisbullah (not related to Hizbullah in Lebanon) and KSS are under command of the Iraqi prime minister. They were founded with help from Iran in 2014 to fight against ISIS. Since 2018 they are regular Iraqi forces paid and equipped by the Iraqi government, not by Iran. This attack will escalate the situation in Iraq. More attacks against U.S. and other foreign units there are now assured.

Together with the deliberate steps to make a return to the nuclear deal with Iran more complicate this attack can be seen as a deliberate escalation against the 'resistance axis' of Iran, Syria, Hizbullah in Lebanon and their supporters.

The Biden administration has yet to learn the lesson the Trump learned when he tired to provoke Iran and its allies. It is the resistance that has escalation dominance in the Middle East. It can control the pace of further steps up the escalation ladder. It is willing to step up higher than the U.S. It knows how to use that ability.

Here is proof for that:

Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian @manniefabian - 14:34 UTC · 26 Feb 2021

An explosion struck an Israeli-owned cargo ship sailing in the Gulf of Oman Friday. The crew and vessel were safe. The explosion forced the vessel, reported to be the Helios Ray, to head to the nearest port.


AP has details:

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An explosion struck an Israeli-owned cargo ship sailing out of the Middle East on Friday, an unexplained blast renewing concerns about ship security amid escalating tensions between the U.S. and Iran.

The crew and vessel were safe, according to the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations, which is run by the British navy. The explosion forced the vessel to head to the nearest port.

The site of the blast, the Gulf of Oman, saw a series of explosions in 2019 that the U.S. Navy blamed on Iran against the backdrop of steeply rising threats between former President Donald Trump and Iranian leaders. Tehran denied the accusations, which came after Trump abandoned Tehran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers and reimposed harsh sanctions on the country.
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Satellite-tracking data from website MarineTraffic.com showed the Helios Ray had been nearly entering the Arabian Sea around 0600 GMT Friday before it suddenly turned around and began heading back toward the Strait of Hormuz. It still listed Singapore as its destination on its tracker.

A United Nations ship database identified the vessel’s owners as a Tel Aviv-based firm called Ray Shipping Ltd. Calls to Ray Shipping rang unanswered Friday.

Abraham Ungar, 74, who goes by “Rami,” is the founder of Ray Shipping Ltd., and is known as one of the richest men in Israel.


The dimwits in Biden's National Security Council seem to think that they can push Iran around and press it for "concessions". It is exactly the other way around. Iran and its allied forces can hit well selected targets like the Israeli ship, Saudi oil installation or U.S. bases in the Middle East with precision and at a time that fits their schedule. The U.S. has no ability to prevent such strikes nor can it respond in kind without risking a wider war that it has no chance to win.

Biden can return to the nuclear deal by lifting the sanctions on Iran. Or he can attempt to escalate further to get his additional "concessions". Those efforts will not only be costly for the U.S. and its allies as Iran can and will response in kind but also futile.

It's his choice to make.

Posted by b on February 26, 2021

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On orders of President Biden, the United States has launched an airstrike on a facility in Syria. As of this writing the exact number of killed and injured is unknown, with early reports claiming “a handful” of people were killed.

Rather than doing anything remotely resembling journalism, the western mass media have opted instead to uncritically repeat what they’ve been told about the airstrike by US officials, which is the same as just publishing Pentagon press releases.

Here’s this from The Washington Post:

The Biden administration conducted an airstrike against alleged Iranian-linked fighters in Syria on Thursday, signaling its intent to push back against violence believed to be sponsored by Tehran.

Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said the attack, the first action ordered by the Biden administration to push back against alleged Iranian-linked violence in Iraq and Syria, on a border control point in eastern Syria was “authorized in response to recent attacks against American and coalition personnel in Iraq, and to ongoing threats.”

He said the facilities were used by Iranian-linked militias including Kaitib Hezbollah and Kaitib Sayyid al-Shuhada.

The operation follows the latest serious attack on U.S. locations in Iraq that American officials have attributed to Iranian-linked groups operating in Iraq and Syria. Earlier this month, a rocket attack in northern Iraq killed a contractor working with the U.S. military and injured a U.S. service member there.


So we are being told that the United States launched an airstrike on Syria, a nation it invaded and is illegally occupying, because of attacks on “US locations” in Iraq, another nation the US invaded and is illegally occupying. This attack is justified on the basis that the Iraqi fighters were “Iranian-linked”, a claim that is both entirely without evidence and irrelevant to the justification of deadly military force. And this is somehow being framed in mainstream news publications as a defensive operation.

This is Defense Department stenography. The US military is an invading force in both Syria and Iraq; it is impossible for its actions in either of those countries to be defensive. It is always necessarily the aggressor. It’s the people trying to eject them who are acting defensively. The deaths of US troops and contractors in those countries can only be blamed on the powerful people who sent them there.

The US is just taking it as a given that it has de facto jurisdiction over the nations of Syria, Iraq, and Iran, and that any attempt to interfere in its authority in the region is an unprovoked attack which must be defended against. This is completely backwards and illegitimate. Only through the most perversely warped American supremacist reality tunnels can it look valid to dictate the affairs of sovereign nations on the other side of the planet and respond with violence if anyone in those nations tries to eject them.
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To remind Iran who’s boss — rather than conduct the diplomacy he promised — Biden opts to act as ISIS’ Air Force. (That’s who “Iranian-backed militia” have long been fighting) https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1365096049027776522
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BREAKING: U.S. military carries out airstrike in Syria against facilities used by Iranian-backed militia, defense official tells @NBCNews, marking the first military response from the Biden admin. after a series of rocket attacks on U.S. targets in Iraq.
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It’s illegitimate for the US to be in the Middle East at all. It’s illegitimate for the US to claim to be acting defensively in nations it invaded. It’s illegitimate for the US to act like Iranian-backed fighters aren’t allowed to be in Syria, where they are fighting alongside the Syrian government against ISIS and other extremist militias with the permission of Damascus. It is illegitimate for the US to claim the fighters attacking US personnel in Iraq are controlled by Iran when Iraqis have every reason to want the US out of their country themselves.

Even the official narrative reveals itself as illegitimate from within its own worldview. CNN reports that the site of the airstrike “was not specifically tied to the rocket attacks” in Iraq, and a Reuters/AP report says “Biden administration officials condemned the February 15 rocket attack near the city of Irbil in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish-run region, but as recently as this week officials indicated they had not determined for certain who carried it out.”

This is all so very typical of the American supremacist worldview that is being aggressively shoved down our throats by all western mainstream news media. The US can bomb who it likes, whenever it likes, and when it does it is only ever doing so in self defense, because the entire planet is the property of Washington, DC. It can seize control of entire clusters of nations, and if any of those nations resist in any way they are invading America’s sovereignty.

It’s like if you broke into your neighbor’s house to rob him, killed him when he tried to stop you, and then claimed self defense because you consider his home your property. Only in the American exceptionalist alternate universe is this considered normal and acceptable.

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Americans: $2000 checks please
Government: Sorry did you say airstrikes on Syria?
Americans: No, $2000 checks
Government: Okay, since you asked nicely here's your airstrikes on Syria.
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This sort of nonsense is why it’s so important to prioritize opposition to western imperialism. World warmongering and domination is the front upon which all the most egregious evils inflicted by the powerful take place, and it plays such a crucial role in upholding the power structures we are up against. Without endless war, the oligarchic empire which is the cause of so much of our suffering cannot function, and must give way to something else. If you’re looking to throw sand in the gears of the machine, anti-imperialism is your most efficacious path toward that end, and should therefore be your priority.

In America especially it is important to oppose war and imperialism, because an entire empire depends on keeping the locals too poor and propagandized to force their nation’s resources to go to their own wellbeing. As long as the United States functions as the hub of a globe-spanning power structure, all the progressive agendas that are being sought by what passes for the US left these days will be denied them. Opposing warmongering must come first.

Standing against imperialism and American supremacism cuts directly to the heart of our difficulties in this world, which is why so much energy goes into keeping us focused on identity politics and vapid energy sucks which inconvenience the powerful in no way whatsoever. If you want to out-wrestle a crocodile, you must bind shut its mouth. If you want to take down a globe-spanning empire, you must take out its weapons. Opposing warmongering and killing public trust in the propaganda used to justify it is the best way to do this.

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Re: The Syria Thread 2011 - Present

Postby Grizzly » Fri Feb 26, 2021 8:23 pm

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Heard from the schrod er, uh 'Squad' squat on this one?!

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Oh, that's right, one time when Cheeto was king...

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Not one peep...

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Everything is AOC's fault, always!!!

Postby JackRiddler » Sat Feb 27, 2021 12:37 pm

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Sanders, Markey, Omar, Khanna and Barbara Lee all made statements so far about the Syria strike. That I know of. Since genuinely public statements on a matter could be to press, comments at an event, on the floor of the Congress, etc., and we wouldn't necessarily always hear about it.

Does only Twitter count? https://twitter.com/RJPilkington/status ... 2311776256

I mean, don't want to get in the way of the daily morning duty to attack AOC in particular for whatever she supposedly failed to say today (proving her as equal to or worse than Biden/Clinton/etc. and therefore worse than Trump). But maybe these things should be checked first?

U.S. claims a defensive pretext for bombing a militia of Iraqis (reports of 17 killed) located in Syria, in alleged response to alleged attacks and/or hostile moves on U.S. forces (zero casualties reported) in Iraq, a country where the parliament has repeatedly voted to have all American troops leave immediately, and calls this a message to Iran for allegedly having supported the Iraqi militia. The U.S. is not in a recognized state of war with any of these three countries, although its forces co-occupy parts of two of them.

This obvious case of empire crime, lacking any cover of force authorization under US or international law, is covered approvingly (if as sort of a side-show) in the corporate-state media, inspires zero protests from the former antiwar movement (so far, but maybe soon?), and is ignored by at least 90 percent of the Congress who have surrendered any authority over warmaking (at least afaik). But for some the most important reflex is to immediately check whether the real enemy, AOC, tweeted about it adequately and in time, and to let the world know right away if she has not (afawk). I consider this a variation of American exceptionalism for frustrated nihilists. Maybe Dore can devote another show to blaming AOC for this and calling her a demon spawn?

EDIT: Reported death count is now up to 22 from seven 500-lb bombs dropped. [LATER: Also corrected mix-up of details in para describing the U.S. action.]

This, CNN says, is a "scalpel," not a sledgehammer.

If only they'd dropped seven sledgehammers.

Biden sends a message to Iran, but with a scalpel instead of a sledgehammer

Analysis by Nick Paton Walsh, International Security EditorUpdated 3:41 PM ET, Fri February 26, 2021
https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/26/middleea ... index.html


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Re: The Syria Thread 2011 - Present

Postby Iamwhomiam » Sat Feb 27, 2021 12:54 pm

I would like to see Grizzly's honest opinion of each member of the "squad" shared here with an explanation of why he feels as he does about each.
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Re: The Syria Thread 2011 - Present

Postby Grizzly » Sat Feb 27, 2021 6:28 pm

I would like to see Grizzly's honest opinion of each member of the "squad" shared here with an explanation of why he feels as he does about each.


Why? Seems to me, you don't really want to hear me out. You want debate, not discussion. That has been my experience with many RI's. I thought these guys were going to "bring down the house", they're all sheepdogs herders, just like the Bern. I wont fall for it again. Anyone here follow my addendum above?


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Re: The Syria Thread 2011 - Present

Postby Iamwhomiam » Sun Feb 28, 2021 1:13 pm

Grizzly » Sat Feb 27, 2021 6:28 pm wrote:
I would like to see Grizzly's honest opinion of each member of the "squad" shared here with an explanation of why he feels as he does about each.


Why? Seems to me, you don't really want to hear me out. You want debate, not discussion. That has been my experience with many RI's. I thought these guys were going to "bring down the house", they're all sheepdogs herders, just like the Bern. I wont fall for it again. Anyone here follow my addendum above?


Why? Because I would like to better understand you, your character, and your thoughts on politics and politicians and why you hold feelings that seem foreign to my thinking, my character and political leanings. It appears to me we feel quite differently about some of the personalities in politics today. I really have no interest in debating you; my interest is to better understand why I do not share your views. I understand why I hold the views I do.

I don't get the ongoing Bernie beat down or your scorn of the squad. Biden's bombing of Syria is unforgivable and plenty have condemned it. Perhaps not here, at least not immediately, but that would be no different than what occurred here during the 2/6/21 insurrection.

I do not subscribe to Twitter (did you ever think about what the word twitter means?) and I cannot stand Jimmy Dore, who I consider a commercial sellout and one who's opinions have no bearing whatsoever on my life.

While I encourage discussion, which also often involves debate, it's very difficult for me to accomplish with satisfaction these days, whether written or orally. Perhaps you've noticed how infrequently I've posted lately? No great epics are to come from me in future, I assure you.

I do want to "hear" you out, in fact. What I don't want or need from you, or anyone else, is bullshit you tube videos and imho, or tweets of any kind being posted here. Copy & paste works best when one first shares their reasoning for pasting it as a prelude in your own words.

It is understood we are different people raised and living in different areas of the same country and we're from different generations with far different experiences. You happen to have chosen Grizzly for your screen name and you also happen to live in close proximity to area of Montana the man who murdered my son and his friends (15 years ago, March 25) was raised in. The identical twin brothers' nickname was Grizzly. Although you might be the surviving twin, I really think that would be most unlikely. But you are a product of that area, so your character, why you feel as you do, is rather uniquely of interest to me. Especially as your opinions seem so foreign to mine.

While I believe our entire civilization is approaching complete collapse, our so-called democracy is all we have, our all but dysfunctional congress is what we must guide while we can; it's the only game in town. Youth is what congress is lacking. The election of The Squad to congress I see as refreshing, regardless their ineffectiveness. Our next congress will see lots of dead wood (on both sides!) disposed and replaced with more youthful members.
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