I used to think like you for almost all my life, but then I slowly realized we think this way because we are so far removed from death and violence in the West that we simply can't see it happening to us. War happens to others, bombings happen to others. We tend to think of war as something less civilized people do, that we've evolved past violence*.
But in reality, all we've evolved to do is hide our machinations better.
What made me start thinking was that we still go to war in the West or carry out "military operations", we just don't publicize them as much and they don't happen anywhere near our soil. France is still in Africa. The US has been at war for most of its history and still is fighting somewhere today. I mean, Afghanistan had troops from 7 different Western countries fighting against the local population.
And the second thing was putting it all together. We're not there as a necessary evil or for freedom and democracy or whatever. These countries are more than capable of solving their own problems. Our meddling is what's keeping them down and it's done on purpose so that we can keep extracting their low-value-added industries to add the value ourselves. For example no Western country produces cocoa or coffee, yet we have almost all of the world's coffee and chocolate companies.
The third thing was slowly seeing from there on that other non-Western countries that are at war with each other are almost always at war because of Western meddling (and specifically US, but it benefits us as well in Europe). For example, Saddam Hussein invaded Iran in the 70s armed with US weapons, the idea being that they would let him keep oil fields and strike at Iran's newly-formed Islamic Republic. When the war didn't go in his favour, he instead turned to Kuwait, which was a strategic ally of the US in the Middle East. That's when the US invaded Iraq (in the first Gulf war) and eventually executed Hussein.
Truthfully, we're not any better than anyone else regarding death, violence, war, pain, etc. We are just the same as the rest of the world. We're all human. It's just that we're so far removed from it that we simply can't process the results of it.
Just as I feared, I’m sorry to have to tell you in this way, but you have a bad case of liberalism, and I’m afraid it’s terminal. I’ll leave you to be with your family in this trying time.
Even if that person helped kill many thousands of people around the world? This is pure liberal "but muh people dying is bad!!!! Even if the person in question was literally Hitler!!!!". Also, Thatcher has already been dead for a long time.
Wishing death, let alone a painful death, on anyone is a dark road.
I used to think like you for almost all my life, but then I slowly realized we think this way because we are so far removed from death and violence in the West that we simply can't see it happening to us. War happens to others, bombings happen to others. We tend to think of war as something less civilized people do, that we've evolved past violence*.
But in reality, all we've evolved to do is hide our machinations better.
What made me start thinking was that we still go to war in the West or carry out "military operations", we just don't publicize them as much and they don't happen anywhere near our soil. France is still in Africa. The US has been at war for most of its history and still is fighting somewhere today. I mean, Afghanistan had troops from 7 different Western countries fighting against the local population.
And the second thing was putting it all together. We're not there as a necessary evil or for freedom and democracy or whatever. These countries are more than capable of solving their own problems. Our meddling is what's keeping them down and it's done on purpose so that we can keep extracting their low-value-added industries to add the value ourselves. For example no Western country produces cocoa or coffee, yet we have almost all of the world's coffee and chocolate companies.
The third thing was slowly seeing from there on that other non-Western countries that are at war with each other are almost always at war because of Western meddling (and specifically US, but it benefits us as well in Europe). For example, Saddam Hussein invaded Iran in the 70s armed with US weapons, the idea being that they would let him keep oil fields and strike at Iran's newly-formed Islamic Republic. When the war didn't go in his favour, he instead turned to Kuwait, which was a strategic ally of the US in the Middle East. That's when the US invaded Iraq (in the first Gulf war) and eventually executed Hussein.
Truthfully, we're not any better than anyone else regarding death, violence, war, pain, etc. We are just the same as the rest of the world. We're all human. It's just that we're so far removed from it that we simply can't process the results of it.
unlimited death to all imperialist scum
Need your opinion on this statement: kill all nazis
I believe in rehabilitation
Just as I feared, I’m sorry to have to tell you in this way, but you have a bad case of liberalism, and I’m afraid it’s terminal. I’ll leave you to be with your family in this trying time.
then you get to be the one at the head of a room filled with nazis. good luck dumbass
I don't.
I'd you start killing all nazis you really motivates Nazis to stop being Nazis though.
Oh no, anything but a dark road.
Is that the turnoff for the dark road over there? It's hard to see from with the air blood red from all the fires
Me wishing the most terrifying death to billionaires, imperialists and nazi scums: i know.
something tells me you'd look the other way if the "anyone" in question was a minority or a communist.
i wish for a lot worse than just a painful death for these ghouls
All roads are dark before the sunrise
you win best comment
Lenin walks around the world. The sun sets like a scar. Between the darkness and the dawn There rises a red star.
Oooh, poetic! Really good comment, I like it.
the only thing i would change about margaret thatcher's death is multiplying the pain she was in by 1000 times
Only thing I'd change is it happening in the Brighton Hotel in 1984, as God intended.
Even if that person helped kill many thousands of people around the world? This is pure liberal "but muh people dying is bad!!!! Even if the person in question was literally Hitler!!!!". Also, Thatcher has already been dead for a long time.
Sir this is a
Wendy'spest control.I wish I was a religious man so I could sleep easy every night knowing that Maggie will burn in the deepest pits of hell for all eternity.
might be a waste of time, but functionally not particularly dangerous.