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    4 days ago

    Thats a long story, and true to any organization involved in syrian civil war, it’s a story that could be taught to me perfectly and I still wouldnt understand half of it.

    Simply whilst the US etc would prefer the SDF and by extenstion the YJP etc, Turkey would rather not have a kurdistani group in the area, for so many reasons. As such the turks have taken “buffer” zones in the area, and since Turkey is quite an important ally to nato etc, and important in containing Russia expansionism, the States has been quite passive about letting turkey invade.

    Im sure someone can add more detail, but my knowlegde of the precise mechanics of the SDF US Turkey relationship is lack luster.


  • Theres only one good way to change someones mind over something that they have become entrenched about - for example politics, but anything where the reaction is a no rather than a what.

    And thats to listen to everything they say, and ask the right question at the right time, a gentle interjection, something that nudges them to question something themselves. At somepoint they might even ask you about you perspective, and you need to give the right kind of answer.

    Its slow and painful, and for big things it takes years and years of work to get someone to change. But its the only way ive found to truly work.


  • I am going to go on a limb, since if you anything like me reading some dense economic theory written in dense academic language using words from 100 years ago, is not going to help you and you may well come away without your mental health.

    I read a book called Damdest Radical and I suggest to all people who want an understanding, its not a theory book, and it wont try to explain anything to you.

    Its a biography, about a doctor who fell in with anarchists, and what he got up to with his life. I feel its a good introduction, since you see peoples ACTIONS and how they LIVED their lives, you will pretty quickly see what Anarchism and more generally leftism is about.

    You’ll see how people from 100 years ago tried to change their world, where they failed and where they succeeded. And hopefully you will think about how you might apply some of their ideas to problems in your life, and how you might avoid some of their pitfalls. Both at a personal level and at a political level.

    It helps that the guys life is genuinely quite interesting and fun, and because he kind of fell into anarchism, you get a perspective of someone who isn’t down the ideological rabbit hole, and is taking what they feel is good about the whole thing and leaving the negatives.







  • Not the person you replied to, but this is a nuanced conversation, much beyond the simplicity of disabled or not.

    Deafness is the one that comes to mind, there are others that do as well, but I grew up in a Deaf household so I know a bit more about it.

    For a group of Deaf people, they quite like being Deaf, they have their own language and schools etc. Those schools arent particularly decent, but for the group that like being Deaf they dont care. They’d rather fix the schools then fix their kids.

    The notion that disability is a social issue is true, but fixing society to cater towards most disabled groups is a far greater task in most cases. Obviously Deafness and others are the expection where it is felt that it is easier/better to fix society.

    Deafness has been “curable” for a while, yet i was raised to see that cure as a form of genocide, trying to erradicate a linguistic minority, rather than fix them. As without deaf children, it was very unlikely anyone would pick up their language.

    I frankly think that there is no downside to try to be positive about disablilty, i say this from the uk, where the rhetoric has been destructive beyond belief. That said it is all very case dependent.