I feel like I could ask any random guy on the street how many American soldiers have died so far, and they'd tell me 7, but if I asked them how many little girls died when they bombed that school, they'd be like "fake news, we'd never bomb a school."
Sadly I think you are right.
Feel the same way about people wringing their hands over dead US soldiers, as though they're the only people who matter.
A Thai shipping frigate just got hit in the Straight of Hormuz, and I have seen absolutely nobody on national news raise the question of whether any of the crew were injured or killed. Similarly, Israel and the UAE have been incredibly close-mouthed about civilian deaths from Iranian attacks into civilian areas, because they consider it a public embarrassment. Nobody seems to want to talk about the "collateral damage".
And then there's the death toll in Iran itself. I was getting ear-blasted with "Iranian Government Murders 10,000! 20,000! 30,000! people!" for weeks. Suddenly, Iranian deaths don't matter, unless they're high ranking politicians or military figures.
This reeks of the same coverage we got out of Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan, and Ethiopia. National news is entirely contained within jingoistic nationalist terms. We're covering (and increasingly gambling) on the outcome like its a basketball game.
Vile.
I believe everyone from that Thai ship survived, at least haven't seen casualties mentioned. The boat wasn't like destroyed, but it did get hit by some explosives.
Credit the artist!
It's yeehawtheboys
cool, I just saw it on my mastodon feed and had no idea who it was by
It's missing a 'Live, Laugh, Love' poster in the background.
*wall tattoo
And this is the best case scenario. It's either this or they literally think they're meaningless collateral in the West's noble mission to save the world.
NYT literally just said that Iranians like to be bombed
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media It should be a must-read for every high schooler but the government absolutely would never allow that.
Just a reminder: Noam Chomsky was Epstein's friend.
Also afaik most of the book was written by Edward S. Herman, who nobody remembers because he wasn't a sellout and didn't make a career as the face of controlled opposition.
The news is reporting on the dead children? That's news to me.
Yes? They literally are?
Yep disgusting when this is a common take away to hundreds of dead kids.
But also like fuck off America, you bitch about petrol prices when you make the majority of your own fuel, your fuel is still comparitively cheap and affected by supply interruptions compared to the rest of the world.
Your not hurting as much as you make out to be on the news, and maybe if you didnt drive cars that use 10L/Km you wouldnt even notice the price change.
yes, the US is much more insulated from the consequences of its government's actions than other nations, and citizens here have absolutely no awareness of what life is like outside the US (though tbh, I don't think most Americans are aware of what life is like for their fellow citizens - there is a profound capacity to rationalize their own suffering and to victim-blame others for the needless suffering they experience).
Yeah, this isn't the western world... This is the prominent assholes in the western world.
Amazingly enough, good and bad people are in all countries and locations. The bad people just tend to be the loudest, and the news loves talking about them because they are also mostly bad people.
There is something to be said about a society that allows the worst of its members to make all the decision. At some point, the rest of the society has to take responsibility for the atrocities said society commits. And that's particularly so in case of western societies which claim to be democracies. You can't have it both ways.
it isn't about any individual assholes, it's about a people who foster a culture where this sort of take is considered acceptable.
Its horrifying how they consider bombing and killing of brown people as some distraction
I hope my fellow countrymen suffer immensely. I want us to be dragged into downright suicide inducing economic despair.
Don’t worry buddy, many of us are already there.
Can’t get a passport to leave, can hardly afford my meds or food, so I’m sure suicide will come sooner rather than later and you’ll get the chance to crack your knuckles and sit smug in your chair feeling so good about how your fellow countrymen got their comeuppance for the axis of Epstein’s evil deeds. Shit, if the homelessness doesn’t get me, I’m sure you can count on ICE to sooner or later.
I personally didn’t want any of this, in fact I advocated hard against it and still do but yeah, fuck us all.
The comic hurts because it’s uncomfortably accurate.
yea, like 90% of the criticisms I as an american hear towards this war is that we "aren't doing it right." and that "when we bombed Iraq we did it right." just that we aren't massacring people correctly, no problem with the massacring itself. of course, these same people absolutely would not accept that all this bloodshed is literally just to keep up with the hyper inflated fuel economy of the light truck tanks that litter our shitty fucking roads. which is an impossible task on it's own btw even if the US got oil out of this the trucks will simply get bigger, and their fuel economy will simply get worse unless fundamental change happens.
these comments are something....
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