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I lost the ability to cry. Like I can tear up, sure, but I can’t fully cry. It really sucks. I just want to have a good cry, it’s long overdue, but something is not letting me. I feel as if the reason I’m unable to do so is because of some sort of shame that unless life has made me hit rock bottom, and the ocean is deep—if you thought you hit bottom the reality is you can go much lower, I should always be grateful instead. That crying and feeling sad in regards to me is a weak and self-sabotaging thing to do. And then I feel like maybe I’m not allowed to cry because I might secretly feel like I don’t deserve it. I really don’t know.

Stop it 🤣

Did you not listen to the whole video? He wanted to send them off to places that had governments that were defending them against their mistreatment or demonization but they refused to take any Jew in.

You need to get on the case of Sub-Saharan Blacks. But I'll say this, the reason why Saudis aren't architects isn't because of their religion. The men all had free education, paid in full, for any university they can get into in any parts of the world. They can't use the excuse of religion. I think the interesting part is that no Arab country from the peninsula has an innovative past. Anything from ancient Yemen or North Saudi was learned from their neighbors or beyond, and the barriers to entry to learning and applying these new technologies was low, since it was rather primitive. These guys descend from long lines of poor shepherds who were thugs before there was even an Islam. They don't descend from artisans or farmers. You know, lineages that come from a history of doing intellectually demanding tasks.

Even if it remains secular, I doubt there'd be any science or REAL progress. Like becoming a formidable first world nation that can give Israel a slap on the wrist for mistreating their poor brethren in Palestine. It'd just be another Egypt. Another Jordan. Another Lebanon. Poor and underwhelmingly mediocre. Twerking for America and Israel while they don't give two shits about the dignity of people like them.

Why would America want the Shia crescent to fall if not to safeguard Israel's interest? This is the primary priority.

Tough for you. Israel is a part of the equation and there's nothing you can do about it.

I agree with everything you wrote. To clarify, what I meant by decentralization of authority and power is nested within the centralization of what you described. So not having a regime that holds power for decades straight. But a power structure where newly elected leaders from an actual pool of candidates can be brought in. Where changes that can happen at the provincial and other levels isn't bottle necked because of centralization of the state's power on all affairs.

America wrecked Afghanistan too. Without American influence, the civil war would've ended early in Syria. Also America allowed Saudi Arabia to carept bomb Yemen.

Hot take: Saudi Arabia aside. All those countries are infinitely better than American influence. Neither of them have wronged Palestinians. Neither of them have wronged Lebanon. Neither of them have wronged Iraq. Neither of them propelled the Arab spring that brought us a Syria with a million dead, thousands raped, hundred thousand imprisoned, and a government that Bibi just called terrorists. If you remove American influence, the Russians and Iran would've put an end to the civil war extremely early. I'm sorry but I don't believe it's worth it to sacrifice a million people's lives and millions more to suffer, just so you can free yourself from a dictator that BEFORE the war imprisoned ten thousand unlawfully and was a shitter when it came to providing economic prosperity.

As a middle eastern, I'm done with this secular farce. Secularism isn't going to save us. What we need is decentralization of authority and power. We need economic prosperity. We need a Middle East free of bad actors, namely a certain blue and white country subjugating the natives because of muh book and muh ancestors from 2000 years before present. Free from America's no-skin-in-the-game foreign policy. Free from the west's cultural hegemony. You have your culture, let us have ours. These things are more important than setting up a constitution that no one will respect.

Israel shamelessly grabbing more land. To create a buffer zone.. for their buffer zone's buffer zone... There's always an excuse. Always a justification. Absolutely ridiculous.

https://x.com/umyaznemo/status/1837829205913977115?s=46

it's wild, isn't it????

Bruh. Have the Syrian people not suffered enough? No they shouldn't be doing this at all. They should advise against starting a war with Israel. I know this is just a hypothetical but good lord, can we stop treating the middle east like their lives don't matter.

Let’s be honest. American and Israeli interest is to have a Hamas/Muslim brotherhood style of government in Syria over a Russian and Iranian backed regime. This new regime can easily be permanently branded as terroristic at any point in time and doesn’t have the potential to obtain the same level of allies. This is all part of the plan. Syria is cooked. Just like Afghanistan. Just like Iraq. Just like Lebanon. Just like Egypt. Just like Libya. All these counties are designed to fail.

No I don’t think it’s going to turn out well.

Brain rot take. The country was destroyed because of the Arab spring’s objective of ousting dictators and Assads response in butchering his own people. And let’s not even talk about how much more blood will be spilled because of said wrath. How about the people in Syria have suffered enough?

Yea that’s just the different areas that militias control. The Kurdish led forces control a large portion of Arab cities and lands but the actual Kurdish lands isn’t that.

I can’t see it.

It’s not a conclusion to anything. It can’t happen in Syria because the lands of the minorities is way too small to be a self sufficient state. You can’t even grow a population. It’s like making Gaza a state.

This is ridiculous. The west spammed this everywhere back when ISIS took over a third of Iraq. Thinking about three separate states in Iraq. But it’s dumb then and dumb now, especially when it comes to Syria. Firstly, Kurds don’t have much lands in Syria, and their villages are separated with Arab ones in between, and they’re Sunni anyways. As for the Shia regions, it’s too small for a tenable state.

At worst it does something to help the poor Palestinians and gets Gaza’d by the **** blue and white country that shall not be named.

Arab spring was a joke. I was in university when that first began and I was distraught by it because I had a feeling it was going to be a shit show. Anything the west backed I was cynical about, since their foreign policy in the Middle East historically destabilizes it further. I desperately wish the Arab spring never happened. Libya and Syria could’ve been free from all the bloodshed. And I’m still cynical. If you’re not a bootlicker for the west, the west will get you one day.