TL;DR I got rejected by the first girl I ever loved, so heartbroken I've decided I'm going to join the YPG in Syria.
I've read the Lions of Rojava website and on other forums and they seem to be saying as it doesn't really matter what my skills are other than I'm smart and can learn Kurdish. I'm not sure if I actually want to be a fighter because I don't know if I'd be good at that, I have no military experience. Although I'm not fat I'm not very fit, but I can force myself to do things if I put my mind to it. I would be happy to do anything at this point.
Does anyone have any advice on what I'm facing? I'm a Socialist and I sympathise with their ideology, and I want to be a part of that revolution. I might die but I don't care, this will make a man of me.
>>16955611
Don't stop for a second and go blow yourself idiot.
>>16955615
I've thought about it for a while but I've decided that I have had enough and need to go and do something like this. I read Homage to Catalonia when I was a kid, it had a big effect on me and I've always wished I could take part in something like that.
I also have a friend I used to talk politics with back in high school, but nowadays he can't hold down a steady job, gotten into trouble with drugs and alcohol. He's kind of lost. Maybe I can convince him to leave with me.
>>16955619
You're gonna get captured and wind up in an ISIS propaganda video.
Nothing even wrong with my life and I've been thinking about doing this.
It would totally fuck up everything for me back home, but hey, if everybody puts their unimportant goals before the Revolution, there will never be one.
Lets do it OP!
>>16955624
That's what I thought, and I don't really want to get beheaded, but I've been reading the RojavaKurdistan subreddit and they're claiming it's not actually as dangerous as you think.
Who I am isn't important.
I'm there now.
Don't come. Seriously, don't. The war is a stalemate, with most of us dying to sniper fire and mines. It's not like it was when Daesh first took over.
The risk of Daesh or local authorities catching you is too risky.
Plus, going to war over a fucking girl? Really?
This ain't WW2 mate.
>>16955629
Why would it fuck everything up back home? Is your home government not sympathetic?
>>16955630
Neither is war. Until the battle. Or raid. And you get caught. You're a man. Just think how they'll (your allies) will treat you compared to their poster girl Kurdistan "fighters". They're a whimsical propaganda piece and you're some weirdo who hopped on to a random cause to them. They'd teach you just enough Kurdish to tell you how to fuck off then basically make you their own bitch to put of the front.
Most war for soldiers is simply long periods of boredom punctuated by short bursts of terror.
Ypu sound like the perfect target for their garbage propaganda. Have fun playing in the garbage pit if the world until the rats in ISIS chew you to bits.
Do you have any military experience?
>>16955633
I doubt my husband would come. He's a socialist but he likes a normal, boring life. I would have to stop doing my postdoc, which would probably fuck up my chances on getting back where I am now at my university. My family would not understand. I could never come back. I don't know if I'd want to, but it would be a HUGE sacrifice.
>>16955631
This.
Most foreigners there are fools acting like this is some vacation crusade a la the 1200s. Show up, take pics "lol I'm helping the kurdz" then fuck off home. The ones who are dumb enough to actually do anything near the front usually get shot by a sniper within a month or two.
>>16955631
What if I wanted to be an English teacher or something like that, working away from the front line? I'm good at languages and I know if I put my mind to it I can learn Kurdish; I'm a native English speaker, but I am also fluent in another language have intermediate knowledge of another two European languages.
>This ain't WW2 mate.
I feel like it's what I have to do
>>16955640
Hahaha really? Big ideal flip there. "Oh gee should I fight a fanatical man who's sworn to kill all that oppose his insane ideology or should I teach English to the kiddies and QT grills behind the lines, I just dunno lol".
Get a grip.
>>16955640
You'll be sent to the front. All fighting age male foreigners are.
I've had 3 relationships. I'm not here because of a woman.
>>16955642
I said I wanted to join the Rojava revolution and help out. I never said I wanted to fight on the front line, in fact I explicitly said in the OP that I'm not sure if I'd be good at it.
>>16955647
>All fighting age male volunteers
Yeah, I'm 21, I'm not physically disabled and I'm male. I'm probably fucked.
Is there really no way of avoiding the front line?
>>16955661
Be old, broken, a woman, or a mixture of the three.
>>16955661
You're a socialist who is able to fight for a revolution and wants to pussy out of it to mostly be in the way and drain resources?
Fuck you. Don't go. Support them by educating people. Fight the good fight in your own way at home. Because going there and not fighting if you can means you're letting people die who needn't, all to save your fucking skin.
You don't care about the revolution.
Your heart is hurting and you feel like doing something stupid. Suicide by cop or something if you want to get shot so fucking bad.
>>16955663
Thank you for the grave warning, I'm going to get in contact with people though so I can gain a better understanding of what's involved past the propaganda. I know that if I'm going to get put on the front line I'd be of no use at all other than as cannon fodder.
>>16955670
Originally I told myself it was because I thought I could be of more use/help away from the front line, but I suppose if you put it that way it does make more sense to put my life on the line so someone else doesn't have to.
>>16955661
>all healthy males must fight at front against snipers who pick them off for giggles
>all women soldiers get the international photo shots and the safe zones, and get choice of support jobs
Ah. Gotta love that smell of feminist gender equality in the morning.
>>16955679
All the "You don't have to fight!" propaganda shit they put out makes a lot more sense when you put it into that context - that's directed at women to get them in propaganda shots, men are going to end up getting killed.
>>16955670
I feel like ISIS is gonna mop the floor with you guys. I'd like the kurds to win but it seems like they're a bunch of bozos.
>>16955671
Look, it's a noble cause to want to help.
This cause isn't worth dying for mate.
>>16955692
>revolution to create an egalitarian socialist state
>not worth dying for
>>16955685
Exactly.
Dear anyone reading:
They're looking for international help in the sense of countries getting involved to support them, and the women are tools of leverage for that. Guys that show up are only used to literally buy time with their lives on the front line until some foreign intervention can occur. That will be your only reward for joining the Kurds and the Rojava. Being a meat shield.
Congratz. You just died for the independence of a quasi - people who never cared about you in the first place.
>>16955697
>egalitarian state
>all men must fight
>women treated like pretty princess "GI Barbie" dolls. Fuck, look at the "soldiers", they picked the cutest ones and pit them in makeup and did their hair in order to allure young, dumb, full of cum men thinking they be sharing a foxhole with a kurdish cutie in a romantic "fight the evil" scenario when in reality they'll be alongside retarded dudes of all ilk getting their shit flipped by an illiterate man who's sole belief and purpose is to get into haven by killing your ass.
>>16955676
>joinign an idealistic socialist quasi state
>expectation of picking where you want to serve and how and not expecting the state to just tell you where it wants you regardless of your feelings
Wew lad... that's some maximum wew.
>>16955638
I'd laugh my ass off as your socialist values are put to the test when you realize what it means to employ that strategy in a third world warfare scenario where the kurds need to fucking survive first. Enjoy having your husband get his legs blown off by a bomb while you dress up in the latest donated fatigues from NATO and take candids.
>>16955702
Just for clarification:
There's an organisation on social media calling itself "RojavaPlan" that seem to run recruitment programs, and talk a lot about the "You don't have to fight!" shit. They explicitly claim to have no contact with the "Lions of Rojava" or the YPG, or at least that's not their focus.
Who exactly do they represent?
>>16955722
I get that propaganda is a powerful tool and all that, but...what the hell. Women can use a gun as well as anyone else. Most women are socialized to be weak as shit, but they don't have to be. Knew the photos of women were stupid and fake, the hair makes it so fucking obvious. But I did hope they let some women fight. I'm a pilot. So, my ground combat training is lacking but holy shit. I'd be wasted as a pin-up.
>>16955741
What can you fly, out of interest?
You go to war, chances are that this will happen:
You end up as a corpse. Your final moments as a living human being will be spent regretting the decisions that got you there, bleeding out and holding your own intestines in disbelief and shock.
You go for it!
>>16955759
I fly hercs. Not very glamorous, I know.
>>16955732
I think they're some kind of anarchist group operating out of the Jazira canton. I'm going to get in touch with them tonight.
>>16955800
Bad call. Why get involved in that region?
>>16955741
Glad you realize the truth.
