The genocide is literally being streamed live, and people in the west continue to look the other way while western regimes keep fuelling it.

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    -157 months ago

    I’m just seeing one image of some random soldier holding a necklace. Am I not seeing something?

    I mean, fuck that dude, but name a military who hasn’t sacked a town.

    • lurch (he/him)
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      107 months ago

      Doesn’t make it okay tho. The goal is 0 military who sacked a town.

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        -67 months ago

        Well, whose goal? Mine? Yes. Yours? Yes. Everyone in every government using people as pawns in their sick little feud? No.

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      77 months ago

      Agree on being skeptical, not because it’s not plausible, but because we should be skeptical of the firehouse of misinformation going on right now. There’s no journalistic source attached to this, as far as I can see.

      But strong disagree on the whataboutism of “name a military that hasn’t done x”, as a way to justify horrible behavior. That’s just depraved.

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        -27 months ago

        Saying I’m justifying something is putting your words in my mouth. Don’t gaslight, it’s beneath you.

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          37 months ago

          Speaking of gaslighting! “Who hasn’t done x” is a construction whose only purpose is to minimize how horrible x is.

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            -27 months ago

            Nope. I’m saying they’re all trash. Equally. It’s very horrible, not to be minimized. But on that same note: I’m not as shocked as OP wants me to be. Are you?

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              37 months ago

              To say “they’re all trash” is to minimize the horrible behavior as commonplace, and the party committing it as not especially worthy of scorn. For example: “Germany shouldn’t have committed genocide, but what country hasn’t committed genocide?” This is a statement that minimizes the seriousness of genocide. It is a shitty thing to say.

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        47 months ago

        I’m saying fuck the guy, if that text is the truth. But I’m just seeing one dude in the video holding a single piece of jewelry. Passing it around, and only the cameraman seems to be really into it.

        Besides, this is basically a twitter video. And, I don’t trust anything I see on Twitter.

        Be careful who you scream at, because I’m definitely not a fan of warfare.

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            -57 months ago

            I’d argue that’s almost every army. War is wrong. Every army kills. Every army sacks. Pieces of shit for sure

            • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
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              -57 months ago

              I’d argue that’s a false equivalence that downplays the scale of atrocities Israel is committing. For context, Israel killed more civilians in a month in Gaza than Russian army killed in Ukraine in over a year of fighting.