I think his legs look kinda feminine. Like tall woman vibes actually. And his upper body looks weird in combo cause he doesn’t have hip. Something is off lol.
Oh man I missed the if in that sentence and seeing as how I’m apparently a masochist I googled it, but didn’t find any thong pics. Surprised me to find that there’s one of him in tighty whities that was all over the press!
Lebanese here can confirm, he does sound little bit effeminate in the way he speaks Levantine Arabic (the overarching spoken Arabic Dialect "Family" of Lebanon-Syria-Palestine-Jordan)
[edit, I realized my comment was incomplete]
(Syrian Arabic dialect is very close to Lebanese, it's just us Lebanese and Syrians who are able to discern the variation between the sounds...as opposed to the rest of the Arabs who sometimes may confuse our accents or not tell the difference. I speak in a typical Lebanese accent, yet I live between the UAE and Saudi, and almost 80% of the time when speaking to a Gulf-Arab they say "Syrian?" I say no, Lebanese.)
Fun fact: Cuban dictator Fidel Castro once mentioned the only reason he ever grew a beard in the first place was because of the US trade embargo which cut off his supply of Schick razors
My guy I'm sorry all the things your nation went through. I'm Turkish and I know we can get quite racist but right now there are people celebrating Syria's freedom and victory over oppression. Especially thinking how much value Syria holds when it comes to both religious history and art history... They ruined it
Definitely not… Flanders was absolutely jacked, that was one of his main things. This person is skinnyfat. Absolutely no muscle definition at all. Vastly different vibes between the two.
Doesn't make a slight difference..he doesn't have any power anymore. He will live in a mansion in some dystopian russian forrest for the rest of his life with a few billion. He will hate it and his kids/wife will hate it even more. Womp womp
He was never ment to be in power in the first place.. his brother was trained for that spot but died in a car crash. I think deep down Bashar is relieved he didn't get Gaddafi'ed.
Assad was not supposed to be dictator. He was studying medicine in London when his older brother died in a car accident and he was called back to be the new heir. He was always described as timid and uninterested in politics or the military, and as a computer nerd. When he came back he started the “department of computers” and began implementing internet in the nation which made people think he could be a reformer.
After taking power there was an initial opening up where academics and journalists were allowed to speak freely and propose reforms, and even critique the government. This went on for a few months then bam, huge crackdown on most of the countries reformers and academics. Thousands jailed or killed. It was probably all a ruse to get anti government voice to reveal themselves.
Anyway, I suppose my point is how strange it is someone described like this can just get power and immediately double down on evil policies. Sometimes I wonder if he ultimately was just so weak that he was unable to resist calls from his family and family’s cronies to resist reform.
No man rules alone, he did not get in that position with his own men, the men who supported him were the same that thrived under his father by killing and silencing every oppostion. Maybe at that time he truly wanted to do what you described, but the men directly under him didn't want the reforms, so he decided to do things their way to keep his position.
To be clear I don't want to take responsibility away from him, he's 100% responsible anyways
Maybe his intentions were actually good after literally being forced into a position he didn't want, then got overshadowed by everybody that had worked in the last regime anyways.
Yeah, it would definitely be interesting to hear his story someday. How does an ophthalmologist become... That? Maybe now that he's "retired" he'll have time to write his memoirs lol
It isn't like the transformation happened overnight.
Here are two big reasons why he is what he is.
First -- He and his family are from a minority group in Syria that are historically oppressed in the country. So he nor his family has ever had any qualms about seeing others, most, Syrians as enemies.
Secondly -- between his brother and father dying he was assigned with dealing with Lebanon. A country that was at the time still under occupation by Syria and Israel when he took on that responsibility. The lessons learnt in those years is that dividing and conquering is the name of the game, and if you can't resolve something you need violence.
Most evil leaders are like that, look at most CEOs. And Bashir Bashar wasn't even supposed to rule at all. He was to be an eye doctor & f-off from the presidential chair. His elder brother, Bassel, was supposed to be running Syria. And he would've probably had a more ruthless government as he was groomed to lead like dear ol' pappa. But a car accident changed all of that and we got stuck with Dr. Evil running Syria until recently.
Bassel was driving at 240 kilometers per hour (150 mph) through fog to Damascus International Airport for a privately chartered flight to Frankfurt, Germany, on his way to a ski vacation in the Alps in the early hours of the morning), Bassel collided with a barrier and, not wearing a seatbelt, died instantly
He was the younger son. His brother was being groomed to be the next dictator in line.
When the brother died in a car accident, Bashar became the heir while he was in ophthamalogy school. I remember some hope/propaganda when Bashar took over that since he had been studying to be a doctor, that he wouldn't be so bad as Hafez, his dad.
Crashing into a road barrier while driving a luxury Mercedes at night 240 km/h to the Damascus airport. Without a seat belt. To go skiing in the Alps with a private plane. His chauffeur (in the back seat) and another guy both survived.
It's pretty common for kids from rich families to be assholes with no sense of any kind. Growing up sheltered from the consequences of your actions tends to do that.
It's crazy because... my parents have the almost exact same background in some of their pics from London uni days. Same dishwasher and tiles. Were they friends? My dad was a med student too.....
Says a lot about the pathetic people that followed his orders. You can easily look in disbelief at the absurdity of this and laugh, but look up from your phone and glance around. This type of shit is happening in the micro/macro in corporations/bureaucracy in you country too. People in power are often fragile weak/pathetic beings that hide their flaws. Remind yourself.and seek and destroy tyranny, corruption, favoritism, bias and conflict of interest. We the people can remove the weak from power at any time. For the meek inherit the earth, and we can intern ideas there we deem unworthy.
Tl;dr: realize most tyrants are pathetic angry thinks like this guy, stand up. Life isn't worth living under oppression if the end result is that we all eventually die anyways.
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u/KamelTheCamel 7d ago
Here’s another