No clue how some of you try to track the events of major conflicts. It just all seems like a stew of piss and vomit designed to spread disease. I can hardly read the NYT, guardian, wapost, etc. at all, much less read their war coverage. War itself is bad enough but adding in the perspectives of western analysts is just masochistic. I never want to hear a liberal of any kind mention hamas ever again. Im so sick of the measured intellectuals and their gratuitous condemnations of #violence ever again.
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This isnt a fucking sports match.
Man it would be funny to see you do this about footage of the Viet-Cong.
Jumping onto a post about the immense heaviness of reckoning with the human toll of this bombing campaign in Gaza and the discounting, detached way it is discussed in the media with what amounts to
is an empathy failure.
I’ve seen some footage like what you’ve linked. It’s true that the courage of the resistance fighters in Gaza is remarkable and inspiring, and that this courage stands in contrast to the hesitancy of the IDF to even set foot on the ground they purport to invade.
But does that really so uplift the totality of these events that it makes them somehow a pleasure to follow? And are clips like that really very informative about that totality? I think one can only answer ‘yes’ to those questions if one is selectively detached from certain facts as well as feelings.
If anger is easier to access than grief, why? If it’s easier to focus on the ground war than the siege, why? If justified violence is easier to witness or contemplate than suffering, why?
For someone fighting on the ground, the fight itself is the answer to those questions. But for you and me?
It’s almost like we were taught as little boys that violence and anger are our purview, but grief and care are not; that to countenance sadness is to approach defeat.
How do you not connect the horror of the bombing campaign with the ineffectiveness of the armored vehicles? They have to unleash Hiroshima on Gaza because they HAVE NO FIGHTING CAPABILITY
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My guy, you just absolutely exploded into a vicious, personal attack in response to a reminder of some basic elements of male socialization under patriarchy and a suggestion that they might play into war voyeurism.
You just responded to a report that you failed to connect with a certain emotional dimension of a post in a comradeship community with an attempt to dominate and punish, via verbal abuse, the person who pointed that out.
Man you took a long ass time to say nothing.
Just close your eyes then, you little baby.
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