Assad is a punk.

They should be careful. Their nipples might fall off.

Man have I been there. After two-thousand or so it becomes a habit, and you can't just stop cold turkey. Maybe they could try weaning, though. For one month, they only kill 10 people a day. Then just 5 for another month. Before you know it, they'll be down to 0 again.

Well its their own fault. If the proles would stop being so ungrateful and just learn to embrace their brutal, repressive regime, everything would be perfume and roses.
I mean, look at Best Korea.You don't see them biatching and crying about silly things like 'freedom', and 'human rights'.

Pokecivilians - gotta violently suppress 'em all!

real_headhoncho: here to help: They should be careful. Their nipples might fall off.

No. Smoking causes that.

Well that doesn't even make any sense. Stop being weird.

Sybarite: Maybe if they kind of just eased off. You know, instead of killing civilians today just maim some. Then maybe next week they could just wound some civilians, and later later sternly poke them, maybe even work their way down to using harsh language against civilians. Remember, one day at a time.

Nope, you just have to go cold turkey. Of course, you have to actually make the decision that when you wake up that day, you'll stop killing civilians. It does help if you have something to displace that behavior with, though. For me, instead of killing civilians, I started drinking a cup of coffee in the morning, and chewing gum during the day. It sucked for the first couple of weeks, to be sure, but gradually, as the bloodlust left my system, it got better.

One piece of advice for Assad, though: Once you've quit, don't go out drinking with your buddies who still kill civilians, because the temptation to start up again is overwhelming.

real_headhoncho: here to help: They should be careful. Their nipples might fall off.

No. Smoking causes that.

Proud to witness the birth of a new Fark meme.

here to help: real_headhoncho: here to help: They should be careful. Their nipples might fall off.

No. Smoking causes that.

Well that doesn't even make any sense. Stop being weird.



problem solved.

hubcity: Proud to witness the birth of a new Fark meme.

Oooh! That would be cool. Never helped start one of those before... well... at least not with this handle.

Why so Syrians?

real_headhoncho: Smoking can make your nipples fall off

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Rick Perry can totally relate to the problem they have with stopping killing people.

i knew those new iphones were dangerous.

Lone Stranger: Rick Perry can totally relate to the problem they have with stopping killing people.

Hey, if Glenn Beck can manage to quit, Assad should be able to.

How many does he have to kill before we send something stronger than a strongly worded letter? Or are we still on "freedom/liberty/democracy is for white christians, not sand negroes"?

I wish I knew how to quit killing you.

dittybopper: Lone Stranger: Rick Perry can totally relate to the problem they have with stopping killing people.

Hey, if Glenn Beck can manage to quit, Assad should be able to.

Yeah, but once you get up the numbers that Rick Perry has it is harder to stop. Anyone can just kill one young girl, Rick takes out full grown men and the occasional woman.


/234 and counting!

Assad can't quit. In his tribal society his clan, once he is, uh, disposed, will be farked.

And the UN will continue printing strongly worded letters as long as Russia is backing Assad due to billions in arms contracts and other investments.

Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.

What is best in life? To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women.

Once you go Ba'ath, you never go back.

He's got a supermarket meat locker with his name on it.

I used to kill civilians like that... then I took an arrow in the knee.

/sorry that one's cracking me up lately

They should switch to ecivs. I haven't killed a single analog civ since I got mine. You can even do it in places analog civ killing isn't allowed!

\killing a vanilla eciv mod at my desk right now

Seraphym: I used to kill civilians like that... then I took an arrow in the knee.

/sorry that one's cracking me up lately

I'll have you know my Redguard did, in fact, take an arrow to the knee. You should be more sensitive.

Gyrfalcon: LargeCanine: Once you go Ba'ath, you never go back.

Too bad he's Alawite.

Alawite is a religious sect. Ba'ath is a political party.

Bashar al Assad is a Ba'athist.

LargeCanine: Gyrfalcon: LargeCanine: Once you go Ba'ath, you never go back.

Too bad he's Alawite.

Alawite is a religious sect. Ba'ath is a political party.

Bashar al Assad is a Ba'athist.

Actually, he's an As'sHolist.......

LargeCanine: Gyrfalcon: LargeCanine: Once you go Ba'ath, you never go back.

Too bad he's Alawite.

Alawite is a religious sect. Ba'ath is a political party.

Bashar al Assad is a Ba'athist.

The Ba'ath Party in Syria these days is basically just the political arm of the al-Assad dictatorship (though given it's hereditary nature, maybe we should start calling it a monarchy; I really don't see how it fails to meet any of the criteria, if anything it's even more of a "mono" "Archy" than what our Euro ancestors lived under), so I don't really know how descriptive the Ba'athist label is for him. Sure it's accurate in as much as he is a member of the party, but what does the party do beside supporting the regime? It most certainly isn't the radical pan-Arab agro-communist movement it started as.

well to be fair, fark has never started a meme, they simly vomit up whatever was on reddit yesterday,4chan the day before

TappingTheVein: Assad can't quit. In his tribal society his clan, once he is, uh, disposed, will be farked.

And the UN will continue printing strongly worded letters as long as Russia is backing Assad due to billions in arms contracts and other investments.

Clans and whatnot aren't as big a deal in Syria and Lebanon as they are in other parts of the Arab world, and Syria itself has an atomized, urban culture literally as old as human civilization. You could argue that the Alawite thing works like clan loyalty in a way, but for him to fall the military will have to turn against him, and the military's Alawite, so I don't see any revenge-getting of that nature going down. Some families of importance in the regime might suffer, but that's not necessarily a clan thing; those who get rich by toadying up to dictators always suffer when the regime fails.

Bashar isn't going to step down because, as of this moment, he has no reason to. A significant batch of the population supports him, he still indisputably holds the major towns, the military continues to back him, and then there is his foreign funding. The al-Assad's have held on to Damascus since 1970, and they were big shots in the Ba'aathist party from the very beginning; they've lasted through revolts before, stared down Israel, and lived for decades on our naughty list for their necessary regional alliance with Iran (every other neighbor is a competitor or religious enemy). And of course our own relationship with the regime is pretty murky; while we've frequently been at odds with them, we've also frequently worked with them regarding espionage and terrorism. As fed up with Bashar as we are now, there are still folks working in the CIA and Pentagon who remember those favors they've done us and would hate to see old Cold War buddies getting Mussolini'd from a lamp-post, no matter how badly they deserve it. Barring foreign involvement, the al-Assad's aren't going anywhere.

Alright alright guys, it's all fun and games until someone's family is crushed by a tank.

Jettero Heller: well to be fair, fark has never started a meme, they simly vomit up whatever was on reddit yesterday,4chan the day before

We came close once but what everyone thought was a meme turned out to be a street light.

Heron:
the al-Assad dictatorship (though given it's hereditary nature, maybe we should start calling it a monarchy; I really don't see how it fails to meet any of the criteria, if anything it's even more of a "mono" "Archy" than what our Euro ancestors lived under)

As long as you hold pretend elections every few years you are not a monarchy.