• NoneOfUrBusiness
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    14 days ago

    This is untrue considering their track record after the rebranding from Al-Nusra to HTS. They’re not spawning out of thin air.

    • @atzanteol@sh.itjust.works
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      04 days ago

      What is untrue? My concern? How can my concern be “untrue?”

      The skills needed to be a revolutionary are very different from the skills needed to govern. Remember when the taliban was “kinder and softer” for a few months?

      I’ll be happy if my concern is misplaced. But time will tell.

      • NoneOfUrBusiness
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        34 days ago

        How can my concern be “untrue?”

        The idea that they “could be” ignores the fact that they’ve been actively governing their territories since (and before, I guess) 2017, and they haven’t started a Taliban-style brutal regime there. I mean I guess it’s not impossible for them to suddenly change their style of governing, but what I’m trying to say that they have a track record we can use to try and predict their future behavior.

        • @atzanteol@sh.itjust.works
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          14 days ago

          So maybe next time have a conversation rather than just telling somebody “that’s untrue”? No need to be weirdly adversarial…

          That said - you raise some good points. I’m not ignoring anything though. You’re acting like my “concern” is saying “things will go bad” when it’s not.

          • NoneOfUrBusiness
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            23 days ago

            So maybe next time have a conversation rather than just telling somebody “that’s untrue”? No need to be weirdly adversarial…

            That… is fair enough.

            I’m not ignoring anything though. You’re acting like my “concern” is saying “things will go bad” when it’s not.

            Wasn’t my intention to be adversarial but that is also fair enough.