It is distressing to hear someone on hacker news describe this, and the history of Syria over the last couple decades, as something that might be "propaganda" and "partisanship."
My god, man - do you even slightly follow the news? Are you really that unaware such that you feel there is some degree of question over just how horrific the Assad regime was for Syrians?
This is a quintessential HN response.
Condescending, emotional, and completely missed the point of what I was saying.
Why do you care? It's their country, let them mess it up as much as they want.
That's the problem with you Westerners, you stole and genocided people around the entire world, and when you were finally thrown out, you come back to pass judgement and impose your own dubious morals on other people.
Was reading book by Sue Black on forensic anthropology , Written in Bone, and she recalled incident where she was an expert witness for commission in Qatar, she confirmed the veracity of eyewitness and photo evidence of Assad Syrian regime of torture - for Arab instigated investigation. Not just Western values.
Again: why do you care? Mind your own business, let them prosper or decline. Not my concern, nor yours.
You can point and laugh, as I do, when I watch the invasion of Europe and the zombie fentanyl apocalypse in the US.
We call it karma, and it's well deserved.