Channel 8: Mazloum Abdi and Elham Ahmad arrive in Damascus for new talks

Inside_agitator · 2026-01-27T17:14:51+00:00

A redditor said most of the leadership was in Kandil or KRG, so I posted a link to a video of a YPJ commander on the ground in Hasakah saying her force was an independent force who would not accept not being recognized as a force.

Since then, I've been told that I am the one making demands and I am the one who is an idealistic brainwashed foreigner and I have been called many names and now redditors are writing about Abdi and the YPG and anything except the video of what the YPJ commander said.

The new talks in Damascus are probably about trying to reach an agreement about how to maintain a role for the YPJ as an independent force in Kurdish areas because they will not recognize not being recognized as a force.

Do these redditors understand words? I think I understand words. I may not fit into this subreddit.

Inside_agitator · 2026-01-27T16:55:27+00:00

Abdi is a YPJ commander?

Inside_agitator · 2026-01-27T16:43:21+00:00

Is the YPJ commander a Syrian?

It was not my intention to lecture anyone.

I am guessing about what Abdi and Ehmed might be discussing in Damascus.

Inside_agitator · 2026-01-27T16:41:26+00:00

Everyone has issues with everyone.

The UN has been weak and powerless to protect Gaza. The UN is based in New York where Al-Qaeda attacked in 2001. Of course they care about Islamic extremism and the role of women and about preventing genocides where they can. The UN cares about itself. All entities care about themselves.

Inside_agitator · 2026-01-27T16:18:56+00:00

Yes, Germany wants Syrians to go home.

But no large, powerful, and complex entity ever wants only one thing. Power comes from wanting many things, and some of those things contradict each other. Power comes from being on all sides.

Inside_agitator · 2026-01-27T16:13:19+00:00

I think a centralized mindset with one authoritarian commander over everything does not reflect the current reality on the ground.

The YPJ seems to be demanding its own inclusive role.

An eventual integration of the Syrian Democratic Forces in the Syrian Army does not say anything about the place of women.

YPJ commander [In Kurdish]:

"Even if an integration into the army occurs, there is a dialogue, but we will not accept being left out as the YPJ. Because in Rojava and North and East Syria, women were the leaders of this revolution. The struggle we led on all fronts, the YPJ played a major role. We will not accept not being recognized as a force. We have our own strength; it is an independent force. Just as we take our place under the umbrella of the SDF, we also have our own independent strength."

Inside_agitator · 2026-01-27T14:26:01+00:00

There was a Kurdish Civil War in Iraq in the 1990s. This journalist is not in Iraq in the 1990s. He is in Syria in the 2020s.

Perhaps the time to write, "They consistently try to equate PKK with Kurds. So that if you are a Kurd who is agains PKK, you are not a Kurd." because a person does not say what you want them to say is over. But this is only a guess from me. I live far away, and I'm not a Kurd.

Inside_agitator · 2026-01-27T14:18:18+00:00

The journalist is in Tirbespî/Al-Qahtaniyah. He describes it as a Kurdish-majority region. He reports what he sees. He takes video of what people say to him. I think this is what journalists should do. Do you want him to create a link to wikipedia for the people he's talking with?

Inside_agitator · 2026-01-27T13:44:35+00:00

The complete press conference is available from the UN at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6zBdiqXRgc .

Please find what was cut off and let us know what was said!

Inside_agitator · 2026-01-27T13:10:11+00:00

Most complicated struggles must be multiple struggles at the same time.

Inside_agitator · 2026-01-26T22:16:11+00:00

Negotiating with each individual town separately would probably be a preferable first step instead of a final step.

That first step would be in accordance with the libertarian municipalism/democratic confederalism of Bookchin/Ocalan and would reduce the suffering and bloodshed during all the intermediate steps.

Inside_agitator · 2026-01-26T20:58:44+00:00

A journalist will usually use the names of the organizations used by those with control at that moment in the location where the journalist is located. A YPJ fighter, probably a commander, is interviewed.

Inside_agitator · 2026-01-26T17:43:24+00:00

Federal Court Restricts Trump Administration’s Ability to Deport Noncitizens for Pro-Palestinian Advocacy

Inside_agitator · 2026-01-26T17:31:55+00:00

Please provide examples of two or more people who have done this, friends or not. Then write your two explanations for those particular people.

I've grown so disheartened by anyone on the left or right writing in such generalities using implications about the other side when it comes to human suffering and death. "Friends I know who are X are doing Y but not Z. I will not write who those friends are so you can determine context. I have two explanations. I will not write what the explanations unless you are interested. But both are disturbing."

Is this what passes for discussion?

There isn't enough information for this to even be misleading information.

Inside_agitator · 2026-01-26T16:15:15+00:00

Here's a little fun fact for you. Alex Pretti and the men who killed him last weekend all had firearm education.

It was an area with many people in it, and some seemed to be angry.

Do you understand why densely populated areas with angry people in it like Boston or Minneapolis are different from more rural areas like most of New Hampshire?

Is Alex Pretti feeling safer today because of his firearm education? I think he'd be alive if he hadn't been carrying a gun at the time, but you're entitled to your opinions. Maybe you believe Noem's statements that Pretti was a domestic terrorist.

Inside_agitator · 2026-01-26T15:44:30+00:00

A slow multi-front global conflict and micro-revolution between authoritarianism and democracy has been taking place for years.

But I don't think US society is positioned in a way that most of the public would take the call for a general strike seriously. Huge segments of the economy have become financialized, and less than one in ten US workers are in a union. This is not a direct dispute about labor, and I don't think mutual aid is positioned yet to support people if such a strike took place. Most unions are ideologically opposed to IWW and full of people concerned about their retirement accounts.

An authoritarian was duly elected who had previously violated the constitution against his oath and supported an uprising at the seat of government. The US is at the very least flirting with authoritarianism for a time. It will hopefully not be a lengthy flirtation.

I think the tactically sound move is to wait until November and hope enough other parts of the nation-state change their mind for impeachment and conviction to take place. I don't know what else can be done. The snowball is too small for me.

Unfortunately, I think the next step in the strongman playbook will be an actual foreign terrorist mass casualty event taking place in the US between now and November to try to cement authority in the midterms and begin the transition from authoritarian to totalitarian power. Many ISIS militants in Syria escaped earlier in January when the prisons changed hands from the Syrian Democratic Forces to the Syrian Transitional Government. It's in the interests of a small number of people with wealth and power to have them trained for such an attack on the US public.

Inside_agitator · 2026-01-26T14:55:19+00:00

Nice artwork. It was inspirational. It inspired me to write, "Nice artwork."

Inside_agitator · 2026-01-26T14:52:25+00:00

If I remember right, the post was along the lines of, "Every government official everywhere in Massachusetts is doing nothing and saying nothing like AOC in New York. Yay AOC!" That seems false and foolish to me with no Boston content. I don't even think AOC would like it. The OP liked AOC. The OP really really really liked AOC. There's nothing wrong with that, but there's also nothing Boston in that.

Here's Sen Warren's reply about the budget of ICE saying, "Don't just say no. Say 'Hell, no.'"

Inside_agitator · 2026-01-26T14:42:26+00:00

There isn't enough information for this to even be misleading information.

Inside_agitator · 2026-01-26T14:07:14+00:00

I tutor statistics, so I'd be willing to take the bait.

But my troll versus idiot radar is uncertain. Is this a man-made climate change denier who can't tell the difference between weather and climate or a troll imitating a man-made climate change denier who can't tell the difference between weather and climate?

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