There is something so fucking banally evil and dystopian about using munitions being fired in a civilian casualty heavy war to market your YouTube channel from the comfort of your home far away.
Like imagine you're sleeping when suddenly a noise like the world ending wakes you by throwing you and most of your bedroom against it's own wall. You can't see anything for the smoke. You can taste the ash smell the flames. There's little to nothing left of the wall that used to face the street. You're hurt, perhaps badly, but mostly in shock. There's definitely blood. You try not to think about it and suddenly realise you don't hear your kids crying. With the adrenaline alone you push through the wreckage of your house desperately to check on them, but their bedroom is gone. They're gone. You know it but you can't accept it, not yet. So you're desperately digging through the rubble, crying and praying, knowing they're gone but you just need something, anything that's left of them, something to hug to you, to be able to bury. But all you find is a scrap of their charred pyjamas and a white hot piece of shrapnel from the munition that's destroyed your home and taken your children while they slept. You can't help but stare at the text printed on it, wondering briefly where it came from, who did this apart from just the person who fired the artillery. Britain or France, Germany or the US, some country that will never have to face the reality you're now living in. And then you notice some handwritten message on it, as though some terrible, taunting message delivered to you as it shatters your world. And it says Watch The_Rational_Progressive on YouTube!
I'm not sure how the whole casualty count thing generally goes, but putting 8000 dead over a year next to any war that I can think of doesn't make it seem like a civilian casualty heavy war?
I'm counting the years of Ukraine shelling the Donbas etc too. Plus I'd argue pretty much all wars have far too many civilian casualties by their nature.
There is something so fucking banally evil and dystopian about using munitions being fired in a civilian casualty heavy war to market your YouTube channel from the comfort of your home far away.
Like imagine you're sleeping when suddenly a noise like the world ending wakes you by throwing you and most of your bedroom against it's own wall. You can't see anything for the smoke. You can taste the ash smell the flames. There's little to nothing left of the wall that used to face the street. You're hurt, perhaps badly, but mostly in shock. There's definitely blood. You try not to think about it and suddenly realise you don't hear your kids crying. With the adrenaline alone you push through the wreckage of your house desperately to check on them, but their bedroom is gone. They're gone. You know it but you can't accept it, not yet. So you're desperately digging through the rubble, crying and praying, knowing they're gone but you just need something, anything that's left of them, something to hug to you, to be able to bury. But all you find is a scrap of their charred pyjamas and a white hot piece of shrapnel from the munition that's destroyed your home and taken your children while they slept. You can't help but stare at the text printed on it, wondering briefly where it came from, who did this apart from just the person who fired the artillery. Britain or France, Germany or the US, some country that will never have to face the reality you're now living in. And then you notice some handwritten message on it, as though some terrible, taunting message delivered to you as it shatters your world. And it says Watch The_Rational_Progressive on YouTube!
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I'm not sure how the whole casualty count thing generally goes, but putting 8000 dead over a year next to any war that I can think of doesn't make it seem like a civilian casualty heavy war?
I'm counting the years of Ukraine shelling the Donbas etc too. Plus I'd argue pretty much all wars have far too many civilian casualties by their nature.