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I love how you're using fucking The Grayzone to support this – understanding that most readers here won't have heard of it and its well-earned notorious reputation. Yeah, fucking no shit The Grayzone also denies al-Assad's atrocities. This is like defending a claim by InfoWars by linking to Breitbart. "Get owned, liberal" in both cases.
I removed the numbered citation indicators from that quote for elegance (because they serve no purpose here), but it's well-referenced, which is why I put it there with a link such that anyone was welcome to trivially check those references.
Sometimes I wish a hell existed so that tankies like you could wind up there for constantly, full-throatedly denying atrocities – famine-induced genocides, cultural genocides, chemical attacks on civilians. You don't give a single, solitary shit about "anti-imperialism"; you just want a monopoly on imperialism.
If you read the reporting from Grayzone, you’d have seen that the study done by MIT proved that the sarin missiles used would not have reached Ghouta if sent from the Syria Armed Forces and that video footage showed Liwa Al Islam (a foe of the Syrian Armed Forces funded and armed by the Saudis, and probably the US) committed the attacks (and the US blaming it on Assad helped manufacture consent for their regime change war). But details (and innocent lives) don’t matter to you imperialist psychopaths. Like I said, all you care about is your personal, privileged comfort and peace of mind, and I’ve obviously hit a nerve as evidenced by how ferociously you’re attacking me.
And just so we’re clear, since the details matter, imperialism is not defined as “having a military” and “defending one’s own sovereign country.” It is, as defined by your favorite, Wikipedia, “the maintaining and extending of power over foreign nations, particularly through expansionism, employing both hard power (military and economic power) and soft power (diplomatic power and cultural imperialism). Imperialism focuses on establishing or maintaining hegemony and a more formal empire.“ As an anti-imperialist, my politics are based on fighting not only imperialism, the highest form of capitalism, but also capitalism, US hegemony, and the evils and chaos that the US wreaks upon the free peoples of our world so that billionaires can buy more yachts.
And if you cared so fucking much about genocide, you’d think you’d care about the fact that the US & Israel are committing multiple genocides now with impunity and your precious mainstream media is literally egging it on and platforming regime change architects, warmongering diasporoids, and fuck ass CIA propaganda, resulting in the death and carnage happening every day that everyone in the US govt fully supports. I know what side you’re on and it’s not the side trying to stop the death and destruction.
Lastly, you have indeed created a hell for tankies and for all oppressed peoples across the world by supporting liberal capitalists and imperialists in power (who are all funded by the same billionaires and Zionists as Trump). I wouldn’t wish the same for you (unless you’re a Zio billionaire) and sincerely hope you can find a way to do some good, or at least stop attacking the people that are trying to do some good in this miserable capitalist hellscape we’re all trying to survive our way through.
Oh hey, good news: I did! And it's bullshit. It funnily links to a NYT article covering it (I guess they're credible if and only if they're supporting your side). It also leaves out that credible organizations like HRW (which I'll say, preemptively, I know you're going to dismiss, but you're going to dismiss anyone against your war crime denial in bad faith, so I don't give a shit and neither should anyone else) pointed out at the time rebels didn't have the means to do this.
Moreover, it conspicuously fails to mention a later debunking of the notion that the Lloyd and Postol's conclusion is some kind of slam dunk:
Your funeral if you want to keep denying well-established war crimes only still denied by e.g. the Russian government, fringe, tankie propagandist outlets, and said outlets' moron readership. Whereas outlets like MintPress and The Grayzone may precede their reputations here with readers who aren't well-informed about propaganda outlets, they surely do know that someone coming in here with apologia for al-Assad is batshit insane.
I wasn't sure you'd let yourself get baited this hard into revealing who you really are, but here we are, I guess.
We could debate this for hours or longer (as people in that Guardian article’s comments section were) and never convince each other. The fact that it is so disputed and the details are not fully known, and the fact that Obama literally said the use of chemical weapons by Syria would cross a red line a year before the attack, and knowing the history of the US empire and its relentless greed and hunger for power and control, I am inclined to believe it was a false flag, just as you are inclined to believe the CIA propaganda/Western mainstream media line that every leader of a sovereign state that stands strong against US hegemony is a baby murdering dictator (even though all of the presidents of USrael are themselves baby murdering dictators). But I’m just a fringe tankie moron so don’t listen to me.
Oh, you're trying to end this in a draw because you know your position is unspeakably awful and indefensible to sane people, so backing down from "the rebels did it and it's effectively impossible the regime did it because muh 2 km", you're now pivoting to it just being oh so murky and will we ever truly know?
No. Bashar al-Assad perpetrated it. Serious organizations don't equivocate about this. Goddamn spineless that you're pulling this "uwu it's just too hard for anyone to say" bullshit. I could at least half-respect (as stupid and awful as it is) that you had an outspoken belief, but now it's clear you'll just say whatever muddies the waters the best because you value propagandizing over the truth. And here I thought the opposite might be true when you came out with unequivocal "al-Assad did nothing wrong" rhetoric (albeit with an objectively fucked version of "truth"). But no, you're just really bad at it.
Jesus Christ where do you get the time
The time to read the Grayzone source? I mean I could just dismiss it out-of-hand for what it is (again, like if someone linked to Breitbart), but it's still sometimes casually interesting to read what fringe conspiracy websites write. As for the "research" (quick and shallow; I won't dignify this by not using scare quotes) and writing, I type at 110 WPM, I've been writing as a hobby for 10 years (okay, this one doesn't show very well), and I've been researching as a hobby for 10 years. Quickly perusing an article, seeing what its sources are, and seeing what else has been written about the article's focus elsewhere is very straightforward. What I did isn't nearly on the level of research I'd normally do. That's not a brag; that's saying I'm not wasting real time on this nonsense.