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Bashar Hafez al-Assad (born in Damascus, September 11, 1965) is the current president of the Syrian Arab Republic, ruling since July 17, 2000 after succeeding his father, Hafez al-Assad. He has also been the president of the Syrian Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party since July 24, 2000, also upon succeeding his father.

Al-Assad graduated from Damascus University Medical School in 1988, and began working as a military doctor in the Syrian Arab Army. Four years later, he attended postgraduate studies in London, specializing in Ophthalmology. In 1994 his older brother, Basel, was killed in a traffic accident. Bashar returned to Syria to resume his brother's role as heir apparent. He entered the military academy, and took charge of the Syrian occupation of Lebanon in 1998. In December 2000, Assad married Asma al-Assad, a computer science graduate and economic analyst at Deutsche Bank and JP Morgan.

At the beginning of his mandate, he proposed a policy of democratic change and a liberal economic opening. After 2012, he revived his liberal policies by promoting privatizations and winning new international partners such as China. He also started to promote tourism on the Syrian Mediterranean coasts.

Faced with the threat of the idea of preemptive war carried out by the US administration, the instability in Lebanon (where Syria maintained a strong military presence) and the constant tensions with neighboring Israel, Bashar al-Assad tried to have a reformist discourse that could satisfy the wishes of the European Union and the United States.

Since 2011, with the beginning of the Syrian Civil War, different Arab countries, the European Union, the United States, Turkey and other governments have demanded the resignation of Bashar al-Assad, while governments of other countries such as Iran, Russia, China, North Korea, Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador and Cuba condemn or do not support foreign intervention or a change of government in Syria.

Today he is still the President of Syria and the government controls the majority of the country, thanks mainly to Russian support and intervention in the war against ISIS, and is slowly being accepted by international organizations such as the Arab League and the UN, which had denounced him at the beginning of the civil war.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Warning US electoralism post I know we've been down on Brandon with his poor polling numbers, but what is everyone's prediction for the outcome of this election?

I'm thinking of getting back into some betting on Predictit. I think my play is to put money on Trump right now and let his price rise once he wins the primary. Then sell high and buy the low into Biden thinking ultimately he wins it, I just don't have a good outlook on Trump winning enough states.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Using "we" is so natural and fun in scientific and math papers. Going on a journey with the author to make discoveries and run into broke citations along the way.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Died from 9/11 or died with 9/11?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Drinking coffee and drawing outside on an overcast day. A peaceful and blessed 9/11

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Even a hexxed bear posts twice a day

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Just made some pizza dough and put it in the fridge to rise for a few days. Man, all these recipes talking about windowpane testing your dough and all these videos with perfectly stretchy and elastic doughs- meanwhile mine always acts more like clay or something

It still makes a tasty pizza in the end so I don't think it matters that much

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When I said that I thought Kai Shiden was so fucking cool yesterday I hadn't yet arrived at the scene where I got to find out that the context for him uncovering Char's identity was to literally glance at him once and immediately conclude that that was Char Aznable, and to also conclude from that that he thinks Char is enough of a coward that he will refuse to work with him.

What a guy.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Quattro Bajeena is more of a legal fiction than an actual disguise.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

i was going to post about something that annoyed me but you know what? not worth it

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I had to take a color blindness test during the immigration process and now im wondering if they'd have just not let me in if I failed it.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Log onto reddit, get mad

Fuck off with this bullshit

Log onto hexbear, get mad

Fuck off with this bullshit

Log onto discord, get mad

Fuck off with this bullshit

Long onto reddit, get mad

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What if i dont return the slab AND said assad must go?? Will i get the curse of ra and Assad curse or do they cancel each other??

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I keep wondering why I've been seeing the dumbest takes possible on the comments, then I realize they're from lemm dot fuk or some other uninspired copypaste Reddit clone. Federation was a mistake.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

slowest take ever but with musk rebranding twitter as X, does that mean that the former twitter owner can reclaim the twitter brand name? honestly mad respect if he pulls that off

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Me talking about stalin with other marxists: he did lots of good, did some bad, we should evaluate his actions and make sure to not repeat them, while keeping the actions that enabled numerous successes. *lists multiple fuckups stalin did with the chinese civilwar, tito-stalin split, homosexuality ban, etc)

Me when talking to Liberals about stalin: Stalin is my father and leader

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Last night I thought of something really interesting to ask ChatGPT. But I was trying to sleep so I didnt do it. All day today I have remembered the fact that I thought of something cool to ask ChatGPT but not what it was.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You obviously have to tell chatGPT this and ask them what it is that you thought of last night

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I feel like I've been getting just a little high randomly throughout the day. Like if I haven't taken anything in a day or two I'll still kinda feel buzzed and I'm not sure if that means I've been taking too much or if that's normal or if I'm just mistaking post-lunch blood sugar as high because I've been getting high so much I can no longer objectively determine what is and isn't high.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Punk HazardSmoker-Tashigi has me feeling things hyperflush

rugged glasses girls got me fucked up bottom-speak

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Oh no we're going to summon the ghost of @[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

When you're having a fun time in a server for your favorite streamer making fun of the "Essential conservativecore meme" and someone drops this take (mostly the last part of it) and you know you cant say the obvious "how is arming Azov antifascist" take because you know most of the server are radlibs.

I did at least say "GOP is only playing at antiinterventionism because they're the opposition party" but that was all I felt brave enough to get into lol.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

english is a pretty weird language. you can be subjected to objectification. can you be objected to subjectification?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

love 2 sit around and feel sad for no particular reason deeper-sadness

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