President Trump ended his visit to Saudi Arabia by meeting with Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, a founding member of Al-Qaeda in Syria, who now has the title of “interim president” in Damascus.
As far as I can tell, it’s basically that liberals (the well-meaning kind, not the calculating POS strategist kind) get led around like a dog on a leash by the western imperialist media. Because some western media in the mainstream has been willing to say “it’s complicated” w/ regards to israel, some liberals adopt that take. Not sure to what extent they allowed it in mainstream after October 7th, but I know prior to that and prior to my becoming ML, I had some confusion about it. IIRC, in particular, I remember a comedian on a talk show talking about the issues there with an analogy to siblings fighting (this might have been Louis CK on Conan years back, oh how great he turned out to be lolol). But anyway, point is, if like a Last Week Tonight level of mainstream or something started saying that Syria is complicated and in endless ideological dispute between “both sides”, some liberals would probably start parroting that.
The kind of liberals in question don’t really have an ideology with more grounding than fanciful Christianity-backed wishmaking about how everybody should get along, so I think this makes it easier to lead them around with selective atrocity propaganda and the like.
As far as I can tell, it’s basically that liberals (the well-meaning kind, not the calculating POS strategist kind) get led around like a dog on a leash by the western imperialist media. Because some western media in the mainstream has been willing to say “it’s complicated” w/ regards to israel, some liberals adopt that take. Not sure to what extent they allowed it in mainstream after October 7th, but I know prior to that and prior to my becoming ML, I had some confusion about it. IIRC, in particular, I remember a comedian on a talk show talking about the issues there with an analogy to siblings fighting (this might have been Louis CK on Conan years back, oh how great he turned out to be lolol). But anyway, point is, if like a Last Week Tonight level of mainstream or something started saying that Syria is complicated and in endless ideological dispute between “both sides”, some liberals would probably start parroting that.
The kind of liberals in question don’t really have an ideology with more grounding than fanciful Christianity-backed wishmaking about how everybody should get along, so I think this makes it easier to lead them around with selective atrocity propaganda and the like.