He hasn’t been able to take Douma despite an unbelievably savage assault with bombs, napalm, white phosphorus, and ground forces. His main problem has been thousands of Jaysh al-Islam fighters.

He hasn’t been able to take Douma despite an unbelievably savage assault with bombs, napalm, white phosphorus, and ground forces. His main problem has been thousands of Jaysh al-Islam fighters.

You know the only reason Assad’s forces weren’t using it liberally before now

Oh yeah, Arabic frequently gets messed up on Twitter and pretty much everywhere else online. Punctuation and hashtags jump from one end of a sentence to the other, and cutting and pasting more than one thing generally ends up as a jumble.

His online defenders yesterday immediately went into “the rebels did it to themselves” mode, even though anyone with two brain cells to rub together can immediately see why that’s dumb as fuck. A lot of people fall for it, though, because a lot of people unfortunately do not have two brain cells to rub together.

According to that article:

Animal Assad

The regime has a long history of dropping chlorine. Jaysh al-Islam are a bunch of assholes to the say the least (well, not all of its fighters, but certainly its leadership), but there’s just the one unproven accusation against them of its use, as opposed to its consistent use by Assad.

Every day I wake up hoping to hear news of Bashar’s death.

As a survivor of the 2013 sarin attack in Ghouta put it yesterday:

Is Russia claiming the accusation that they were involved a hoax, or that the chemical attack happened at all?

Boy, I can’t wait to see what kind of victim-blaming headlines the NYT comes up with when Latin American immigrants get shot at a US border.

Unhyphenated America to talk about why Jay-Z

“We’re ISIS, and we approve this message.”

Corbyn’s problems have more to do with actual antisemitism in Labour’s ranks than with anything he’s said about Israel.

I wasn’t making fun of Christians. I was making fun of Trump and his supporters, who aren’t the least bit Christian.

stoning and burning

Leviticus 19:33-34 When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the Lord your God.

The last thing they want on Easter is someone named Jesus showing up.