BEIRUT (AP) — The Syrian government appeared to have fallen early Sunday in a stunning end to the 50-year rule of the Assad family after a lightning rebel offensive.

The head of a Syrian opposition war monitor said President Bashar Assad had left the country for an undisclosed location, fleeing ahead of insurgents who said they had entered Damascus after a remarkably swift advance across the country.

Syrian Prime Minister Mohammed Ghazi Jalali said the government was ready to “extend its hand” to the opposition and hand over its functions to a transitional government.

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    Assad was a fucker who committed crimes against humanity and deserved to die. Unfortunately I don’t have high hopes for whatever group of islamist fascists ends up arresting control.

    (Time to find out if this is one of those subs that removes any comment even slightly critical of islam as “islamophobia”…)

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      Yah know, you didn’t have to add that last caveat, most people already agreed with you

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        What do you mean? Why do you think I give a damn whether “most people” agree with what I’m saying or not?

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          (time to find out blah blah blah who gives a fuck) shows you do give a damn about whether “most people” agree with what you are saying or not.

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            Feel free to disagree all you want with my educated opinion that Mohammad was a child rapist and a violent warmonger with delusions of grandeur.

            Most people are smart enough to know that there is a difference between disagreement and censors removing posts that they simply don’t like.