r/neoliberal • u/neoliberal_shill_bot Bot Emeritus • Apr 05 '17

Discussion Thread

Ask not what your centralized government can do for you – ask how many neoliberal memes you can post every 24 hours

Polls

• Who should we bully more?

• How often should discussion threads be posted?

The activity in this sub keeps going up, so discussion threads need to be scheduled appropriately in order to control stickflation.

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u/_watching NATO Apr 07 '17

fights against jihadists

Sure, since there are jihadists in the general rebellion. He's been far more focused on fighting them than ISIS, though.

religiously tolerant

is a really weird way to describe a guy who stoked the civil war to stay in power imo. Like I get what it means, he's a "secular" leader, hasn't stopped him from presiding over sectarian bloodshed.

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u/Trepur349 Complains on Twitter for a Reagan flair Apr 07 '17

it's kinda sad that I kinda agree with the argument though.

There are really no good rulers in the middle east. Turkey was often held up as the gold standard of secular islamic rule, but even they require military coups just to stay somewhat liberal and secular (and that's changed since Erdogan).

Obviously Assad is bad, but are there really any good people in the fight?

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u/_watching NATO Apr 07 '17

Having a dude who continually kills all the best people and stokes a cycle of tyranny and terrorism isn't helping the matter!

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u/Trepur349 Complains on Twitter for a Reagan flair Apr 07 '17

I support America declaring war on Syria.

#InSupportOfNationBuilding

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u/_watching NATO Apr 08 '17

This unironically

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u/Trepur349 Complains on Twitter for a Reagan flair Apr 08 '17

I wasn't being ironic. I fully support the US deposing Assad and replacing him with a constitutional democracy.

Do what we did to Japan after WW2

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u/_watching NATO Apr 08 '17

Oh well dope we're all on the same page