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by fit2rule 2476 days ago
Bombs dropping every twenty minutes is a heinous evil that most Americans are ill-prepared to confront.

It takes a great deal of courage to learn the truth of the American military endeavours that have plunged the world into chaos and war for decades now. This concept is too scary for most Americans - even, Westerners in general - to deal with, and therefore: it continues.
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PavlovsCat 2476 days ago
Yeah, while this story joins the mass of stories that get flagged off the front page. Right now, one opportunity to be moral and show solidarity was given to you, and this is how you used it -- you aren't making a thread to help with what you use to belittle this, you use one atrocity to cover another, and think you're better than "most Westerners".

It's not primarily about who does bad things, it's about the victims, and how to help them. That's what empathy is, and that's why punishing evildoers even matters, not because the evildoers do. And yeah, I said evildoers instead of bending over backwards to say the same thing in more bloated language.

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fit2rule 2476 days ago
The victims need to be acknowledged by those who enable the perpetrators of the crimes.

I myself have helped multiple refugee families get their lives back together again. You?

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PavlovsCat 2476 days ago
> The victims need to be acknowledged by those who enable the perpetrators of the crimes.

Nah, I dont engage in and normalize sophistry, and still acknowledge them, and I don't use straw men to look the other way.

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