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BonersMalone69 t1_j6cr4wi wrote

Reply to comment by PJJefferson in 'Leftists go home': Crowd accosts news crew at site of Jerusalem terror attack by MijTinmol

Bingo. The Syrian Civil War is a nightmare for anyone with a shred of empathy and a brain to think with.

Russia was actively bombing the hell out of civilian areas. And the action was designed to drive them to other countries, their hope being they fled to the West. Refugees flood in to Turkey (many go on to Europe), have different values that “clash” with the West, locals get pissed because they don’t understand a fucking thing about what’s happening. Local person is a victim of a crime by a refugee and all hell breaks loose. Politics in affected countries lurch to the right.

My memory of the SCW is foggy, a massive nightmare. This was 2013? 2014? More an ongoing thing for years, rather than one or two years in particular. But a concerted effort really around 2014 or so iirc.

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macrofinite t1_j6eyrz1 wrote

I remember it was a pretty big thing during the 2016 election cycle.

My most enduring memory of Gary Johnson’s pathetic campaign was an interview in which a reporter asks him what he thinks of the shelling on Aleppo and his response was “What’s Aleppo?”

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