Two american anarchists have just headed out to Syria to fight for the YPG

I hate to admit this, but should I ever end up jobless and homeless (a fate I'm precariously fighting), I've decided I would go to Kurdistan rather than join the army.

I considered joining the army to get trained to then go to Kurdistan but I fear I would grow soft in the relative comfort and not bother going in the end, even if I wasn't sent to fight in some imperialist war, I would be used as a reserve so that someone else could go.

That's perfectly valid, but I do implore you to learn how to use a gun for if and when the time is right.

Who knows where we will be in 30-40 years, I don't want to be an old man at the wrong end of a gun.

Pretty hard when they are outlawed except for specific marksman clubs and ammo costs a fucking fortune.

Also, it'd be a miracle if i get through the background check, considering the public opinions i hold, and my history.

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But I will try once I have a job later in life.

And if that doesn't work, I'll just go burgerland for holiday and play around in the sand there.

I hope they enjoy fighting alongside and helping such revolutionary forces as the U.S. Army Special Forces, CIA-SAD, and the U.S. air force.

As King Obama has said:

We must secure the existence of our way of life and a future for our nations. I salute you, brave soldiers of freedom!

I'm in the same boat, comrade. Except I'm jobless right now and my funds are running out. If I don't find something in the next 6 months ita Rojava for me.

I have a BSc. in Physics and I hear they need teachers. So I might be useful in more ways than one.

Wow two fucking people it's Catalonia all over again

Erm not to question the authenticity of your plight, how can you not find even data entry or clerical work with a physics bsc? That's if you're not even trying to be ambitious, most major companies in the UK offer upper management enrollment programs just for having a bachelors in anything so as long as you've achieved a 2:2 honours.

You're really underestimating how exploitable you are in the system.

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I don't even care about the ideology, where to I sign up to fight directly in war? I know if I joined my country's army I would just be supporting the global elite and would never even see actual combat.

kek
fucking larpies gone wild

makes me ashamed to be a jobless recluse tbh

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it's no good to play the game of puritanism while paying taxes which go toward that same military power

everybody is implicated in this system which is global in scale, you cannot abstain from it

"You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye."

And I thought the anarchists were supposed to be the idealists.

A British student union defends ISIS again, no-platforms an ISIS critic

whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2015/11/06/britains-national-union-of-students-defends-isis-again-no-platforms-an-isis-critic/

I realize this is an ancient post, but I ran across it in a comment on another blog attempting to piss someone else off, but I didn't realize the "critic" was a Kurdish veteran until I clicked. I'm so angry I got a headache just reading this.

What will it take to wake these people up, mail them some dismembered limbs from their relatives in the old country?

wow, FUCK idpol liberal cunts

People like this make me seriously consider torture as a legitimate option to remove liberal brainwashing.

Just another article in a long line of hit pieces against the NUS.

An australian was recently killed in Syria with the YPG, and people gave his family shit and called him a terrorist responsible for murdering innocent turks etc.

Made me really sad.

This news is always good to hear though.

Students were a mistake.

Turkey's NATO status is an atrocity. Almost like that Armenian one they pretend never happened.

Link a nigga up. I see news about a Jamie Bright, but I don't see the cunts harassing his family.

The Kurds' letting the U.S. fucking government near this "revolution" is a disaster, and will be their undoing. So much for independence; I hope they enjoy their future as U.S. client.

look into the history of revolutionary movements

all have at some stage accepted arms from an imperial power

you cannot conjure means of making war out of the air

so I guess even the proletarian movement will allow bourgeois elements bc you can't escape the systuhm? :^)

remember when the bolsheviks got help from imperial powers?
Neither do I.

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accepting arms is not "allowing bourgeois elements"

no more than lenin arriving in russia in a german railway car was "allowing german elements"

because you don't know history

YPG is literally involved in a joint military operation with the United States, a western imperialist power house. Lenin used a fucking german railway to reach Russia and the literally proceeded to buttfuck the bourgeoisie, instead of enabling them.

wew

this is disingenuous because the revolutionary elements in russia had succeeded in subduing large portions of imperial russia - they did not have to solicit aid for the acquisition of arms, they had already acquired them

but as for moving lenin into a position where he could lead a revolution, he most certainly had the aid of imperial powers, namely the famous sealed german railway car

lenin accepted german aid because it was a furtherance of his aims, as he should have, because that is sensible politics

not all revolutions take place in the same conditions, however, and one has to pursue policies consistent with the conditions

had the kurds refused american arms they would have been defeated by isis very quickly - the same isis which exercised zero scruples with respect to american arms early in the syrian civil war when they were euphemistically referred to as "moderate rebels"

and yet only a conspiracy theorist would imagine that isis lost its political autonomy once it had accepted those arms

what you are advocating for the kurds is pacifistic destruction

The U.S. is not just "an imperial power;" it's the power. It's the planet's ruling entity/institution; one that, for over two centuries, has been committed to smashing independence movements, and a state-ideology of aggressive, violent anticommunism.

Whatever structures and systems the Kurds are trying to establish there, are probably infected with U.S. agents and spies, and tainted with U.S. monies. No sensible person should put their trust and confidence in such a dangerous state of affairs.

Bottom line: the U.S. is the global enemy and cannot be trusted.

They're not just accepting arms; there are U.S. and UK special operations forces in country, on the ground. That means the intelligence services (CIA, SIS) are there, too.
I'm advocating independence. i.e. not allying yourself with your enemy and letting him into your house.

the US cannot be trusted any more or less than any imperial power in history could be trusted, but one does not need to believe in the good intentions of a benefactor to take advantage of them

isis may be a model to follow on this - when they were "moderate rebels", they took full advantage of US aid and have evidently enjoyed the enormous benefits of that aid

have they been subverted by the US and made into compliant puppets? evidently not

revolutionary movements throughout history have often found themselves in the middle of competing imperial claims and have used that to their advantage

early irish revolutionaries for example were accused of being french and spanish agents because they enjoyed french and spanish aid, not out of any sincere interest on the part of the french or spanish in irish independence, but because irish insurrection benefited their wars against britain

the US is the greatest imperial power in history, yes, but that does not mean other imperial powers were not as committed to smashing independence movements

lesser imperial powers had less resources to commit to such a program, but that is the only distinction

you say you are "advocating independence", but you are advocating it in abstraction: how could the kurds have exercised that independence? by refusing US arms, which means they would have been crushed by competing factions which had no such scruples about accepting US arms

intelligence services are quite literally everywhere, they have penetrated every major radical movement in the world and there are no doubt agents embedded within every faction in the syrian civil war

I suppose there are no guarantees. My worry is that the americans could start using the YPG or others as a proxy force, like they did the peshmerga in Iraq. They could use them to attack regional enemies, like Hezbollah or Hamas. I don't want the Kurds to start doing america and israel's dirty work.

The YPG has a policy where they only attack when attacked. If they go to war with Hezbollah or Hamas it'll be because they picked a fight.