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[-] riskable@programming.dev 32 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Meh. He didn't harm anything. He just broke the rule of, "keep off the memorial."

Basically, a non-event. Why is this news?

[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 24 points 2 days ago

Someone in editorial thought "ah, this will make people angry, and anger leads to clicks."

Clicks lead to hate, hate leads to the dark side

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

the dark side leads to nachos. why are we against this again?

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 days ago

Sir, this is not the onion

[-] perishthethought@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago

Serious question for you: I wonder if you would feel different if your parent had died in the war being memorialized?

I'm trying to figure out if you are saying "This doesn't affect me so I don't care" or maybe, "Memorials serve no purpose" or something else. Cheers,

[-] riskable@programming.dev 5 points 2 days ago

That's not the point. The point is nothing at all actually happened.

It's the monument equivalent of shouting, "you're ugly" at someone. Disrespectful, sure, but newsworthy? No.

[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 6 points 2 days ago

I wonder if you would feel different if your parent had died in the war being memorialized?

Exactly as I commented. "Ah, this will make people angry, and anger leads to clicks."

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

i went to dallas and stopped by the jfk shooting museum. real neat. real somber. there's a yellow x on the asphalt where he was shot, and every few dozen minutes when there's a break in traffic there'd be a tiktok kid popping out there to get a cheery selfie or video. at first, I thought "they don't quite understand where they are, they're just dumb kids" and then the constant stream (i promise i got it by the third one) of them made me realize they were all ragebating us olds.

[-] perishthethought@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago

You are certainly correct about that, but you and OP haven't answered my question. I really wonder if OP was saying that they wouldn't be upset, even if they had a personal connection to that specific memorial.

My guess with OP's comment was more like they didn't see how it affects them, versus any other answer. I believe society won't move forward as long as everyone only ever sees the world through the lens of "how does this affect me". But this is all just me guessing.

[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 4 points 2 days ago

I was answering the question:

Basically, a non-event. Why is this news?

Why is this news, indeed? Because it makes people angry. That's it, that's the sole and only reason. There's no other point to wasting the amount of verbiage that has been wasted on this complete non-story of a pointless event.

Are you suggesting we should have news stories broadcasted to the whole world about every possible thing that might offend someone, because otherwise we're ignoring "things that don't affect me?" There's a reasonable threshold below which this kind of thing shouldn't be worth this kind of attention, IMO, and lighting a cigarette on an eternal flame is well below that threshold.

[-] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 27 points 2 days ago
[-] rainwall@piefed.social 9 points 2 days ago

Dale Gribbel, savior of the sacred flame.

[-] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I quit smoking over a decade ago, but if I had the opportunity to light a cigarette from the Olympic torch...I'd take it. Probably also use that cigarette to light the pilot lights on my water heater and then all my showers would be heated by the Olympic flame (technically speaking).

[-] Witchfire@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

That's honestly the most French thing I've heard in a while. Not because of the war memorial but because of the cigarette

[-] officermike@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago

I definitely interpreted this title as someone lighting a 110-year-old cigarette.

[-] dhork@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

Me, too. I had a whole internal discussion about which scenario would be more stereotypically French....

[-] pedz@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 days ago

There's a genocide going on, we have thousands upon thousands of homeless people, the world is heading to a climate catastrophy, but let's be outraged by someone lightning a cigarette with the flame of a war memorial.

People dying of hunger because of politics, capitalism and violence, it's none of our business. But that man lighting his cigarette, what a fucking outrage!

[-] kebab@endlesstalk.org 14 points 2 days ago

Sir, this is a Wendy's

[-] Pudutr0n@feddit.cl 2 points 2 days ago

Disappointment = Expectations - Reality

You can only really control one of those 2 factors regarding global events.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

speak for yourself, my farts have gotten ecological laws passed

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago

I'm not going to lie to you I don't see the connection.

[-] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 days ago
[-] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 days ago

I like to disrespect authority like the next punk but disrespecting war memorials is fucking disgusting. I would have liked to punch that fucker. And smash his fucking cigarette.

Fair, but did we need a news article about it?

this post was submitted on 06 Aug 2025
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