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Yemeni shopkeeper during US bombing.
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I want everyone who isn't vocally opposing the war on terror to see videos like this until they fucking learn human empathy.
I don't think a missing human emotion can legitimately be learned. Sociopaths can do ok at faking it but they will never actually feel it.
Yeah we learned last year that half of this fucking country runs on pure hate for anyone who isn't exactly like them, and even then they'll find reasons to hate them too. They're suffering but other people suffering worse actually makes them feel better. Then they're shocked and appalled when their Walmart trip gets more expensive and their response to it is that other people should still be hurt more.
They have no empathy. They do not have the capability to think about anyone other than themselves, and it shows daily.
Yet you can injure people with culture. Constantly stoking emotions like fear and its siblings hatred, loathing, and obedience, eventually stimulates the amygdala into an enlarged state.
The problem is not just ideology, it's biology. Cults are freaky, man. There's the psychology of inducing trances and there's even probably some weird acausal shit that we don't understand and would label magic.
But our persistence as a species relies on us figuring it out.
The only difference between you and them is where their empathy lies. War is awful shit, but often used to end other much more awful, and less visible shit.
You do realize we're talking about the war on terror here right? If you think there's something more awful than bombing an apartment building and killing 53 people being prevented by this shit then I don't even know what to say.
Well look into the deplorable shit happening in Yemen and see if you can find some things to say.
But this bombing wasn't about the "deplorable shit" happening in Yemen. It was about access to easier shipping routes. Thats it.
+50 dead in this attack so boats didn't have to go around the horn of Africa.
Ah yes, there's the nuance I've come to expect around here.
Okay, and you think these bombings will lead to a regime change in Yemen? The Saudis tried that first. Low to moderate level foreign conflicts with a widely hated enemy (which the West and Israel are) do nothing but strengthen the ruling government. Hell, even a full-scale war isn't at all guaranteed to remove the rulers from power, because it gives them legitimacy that they otherwise lack. This is why Hamas is still in power despite 18 years of blockades, three wars and a genocide.
Just because someone tried it and it didn't work, doesn't mean you just say "fuck it". You try new methods and keep working at the problem until it's solved.
And what's new about bombing Yemenis?
The US are doing them now, who the Yemeni are even more alienated from and ready to view as an enemy than the Saudis.
I looked up what this is about:
So maybe you're right, although I wouldn't call what's happening in Gaza "less visible".
I think they meant in general without going to deep into this specific instance of warfare