some of the videos ive seen are really heavy so trigger warning

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    8 months ago

    “Interesting” is quite a choice of words

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      8 months ago

      I mean it’s all horrifying on moral and human levels. There’s just also that world historical cool zone level where you’re seeing decades happen in weeks. If you’re watching a war like this develop as a meaningful geopolitical event, you have to either abstract it into competing systems or be broken by focusing on the personal/moral tragedy of every death. Emergency medicine is also interesting to me because if I only think about it in human terms it’s nothing but hopeless trauma and gazing into the abyss.

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        If you’re watching a war like this develop as a meaningful geopolitical event

        Except I’m not watching it like a geopolitical event. I am watching it as a conscription eligible Russian citizen in a city with a whole lot of targetable infrastructure (including my own workplace), and that has already been attacked prior.