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Over 60,000 passengers stranded in Russian airports due to drone attacks
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Am I supposed to feel sorry for them? Cause I don't.
I feel sorry for the citizens that had no choice in this war much like I feel sorry for the Americans that had no choice in the chaos and treason that Trump is committing, much like I feel sorry for the citizens in Israel who had no choice in the genocide netanyahu is carrying out.
Government does not equal the people and the only ones that deserve penance for these atrocities are the world leaders that call the shots.
Great examples, because they all show it's not that simple. Trump's ascent to power was built on decades of general bipartisan shittiness at home and abroad that was only marginally opposed by the American public, and the majority of Israeli Jews actively support the genocide in Gaza and consider propositions like Trump's ethnic cleansing plan desirable. Similarly, there's broad public support for imperialism in Russia (remember that Putin used the second Chechen war in his rise to power), and most Russians actually support the war against Ukraine. You can't do shit like what your three examples are doing without public support or apathy, so the proples of those countries do in fact share the responsibility for their governments' atrocities.
It's not as simple as how you're putting it though. The propaganda machine is large. The American citizens have had their education stripped for decades so they can be brainwashed. And I don't know if you've ever been to Israel but their propaganda machine is also very strong (they send jewish kids from Canada and the US there for birthright trips and have attractive IDF members on these trips to indoctrinate them, and a lot end up marrying people because of it and moving to Israel, bolstering the indoctrinated population).
There are huge amounts of money being pumped into manipulating the public and quashing resistance. Do you think people in those countries leading resistances deserve to suffer? You're probably not hearing much about them because of these propaganda machines.
It always comes down to a class war. Those in power are responsible for the manipulation and the propaganda, and those in poverty are always left with no power to stop these things from happening, and that is completely by design.
Of course some violence is necessary in resistance, I don't operate without nuance. Whether all that suffering is deserved is up for question. I'm not actively opposing Ukraine bombing Russia because violence is necessary in resistance, but I don't think all the people suffering deserve it. Especially the working class who have no power by design.
Also to add, Trump didn't win the popular vote, he only won it after extreme voter suppression, so no a majority of Americans didn't actually have a choice because their votes were not counted, and I suspect similar in Netanyahu's case. And we all know that Putin is a dictator and Russia is not a democracy. These people didn't have a choice, they had the illusion of choice. Some people supported them, yes, nazis deserve to suffer, but i don't think those who had their votes thrown out to "win" an election deserve suffering, but i hope their suffering drives change.
Okay if someone can be indoctrinated into believing brown people should be bombed to oblivion they're a shitty person, full stop. Americans already know the shit Biden was funding in Gaza and yet nothing happened.
No, but I'm certainly not going to shed too many tears for but everyone else.
Partially yes, but partially because there are simply not that many of them. You should look at polls in Israel asking about how Israelis feel about the war. It's very damning.
In the Russian case some nuance is deserved because Russia is a dictatorship, but still the fact remains that the war has broad popular support, which gives Putin a free hand in the war. People who don't want any of this of course don't deserve it, but that's a minority.
Oh I'm not only counting Republicans here. Liberals who sat on their asses doing nothing to make things better and screaming "hold your nose and vote for her" at anyone trying to suggest that maybe having two pro-genocide candidates is a bad idea are equally to blame in my book.
The Israeli people hate Netanyahu, but they hate them for his corruption, not the war. They still support the war; they just want to have a functional democratic society while they commit genocide against Gazans. Look at this shit and you'll see what I mean.
The biggest problem i have with this way of thinking is that the first people that experience these struggles are the most vulnerable, the trans people, the disabled, the brown people you speak of. I understand you don't care if the politically apathetic suffer, but the problem is that they are usually the last to suffer, that's why they are politically apathetic, they have the privilege to be.
We don't get to pick and choose who suffers. And the people suffering right now are the people we should be trying to protect. The people you're wishing suffering on, for the most part, are not really suffering yet. We're still in the first few lines of the "first they came for" poem.
Don't get me wrong I'm not saying I want the people in these to suffer as an end in and of itself (though I will take the opportunity to enjoy the schadenfreude); I'm just saying that we shouldn't trick ourselves into believing this is the result of a minority forcing their desires on an unwilling majority. That matters, among other things, because it means that more radical change is needed than "remove the bad guy and replace him with a good guy". Many people here act like if Putin/Trump/Netanyahu disappeared Russia/America/Israel would stop being an active force of evil, but that's simply not the case, so I'm trying to push back against that myth.
Yeah fair enough, I'm probably being autistic about this and maybe taking literally what you meant hyperbolically. In any respect I don't want to fall into a semantic argument circle-jerk lol
I think i understand what you meant now and I dont think what we believe is all that different anyway