Can you just kill yourselves and leave the rest of the world alone?
Do what his idol did and hitler yourself already
He wants to kill everyone he can before he dies.
He will sacrifice people foolish enough to break the law in his name to eradicate Real Americans.
He doesn’t care. The majority of the boomer generation feels the same way.
The world will improve significantly when the wealth hoarding boomers just finish dying off.
Protect yourself in the meantime. Stay armed. Stay alert.
The world will improve significantly when the wealth hoarding boomers just finish dying off.
Sweet summer child, I’m afraid you have another thing coming.
I’m very impatient. Anything we can do to maybe speed up the process?
My feeling is he wants:
Whatever he wants it's bad
Every young generation feels like that. Every single one before yours felt the same. :)
Its actually not about generations being different, we are the same. You may be 20, I may be 50, we still want the same things.
I think the saddest part about these WW3 memes is that it really does feel like the people making them only care about the conflict being engineered in the Middle East by Trump and Natanyahu because there's a chance that it might negatively impact their own lives. The implication is that as long as this doesn't actually turn into WW3 (it won't, Jesus Christ please learn some basic history) it's fine and a bunch of people getting killed by bombs is missiles is OK as long as they're brown and way over there.
You're probably right in some cases, but I think it's more of a way of people dealing with their disbelief that it's come to this. There's a lot of ways to process the current insanity; dark humour is possibly the most accessible though.
What makes you sure it won't be WW3? I don't know enough to comment just asking for your perspective
Turn the question around. Ask yourself, what are the conditions necessary for this to become WW3?
First, at a minimum, you need more than one major power to become involved. For the purposes of this discussion I'll define make powers as The US, The EU / NATO (functionally indistinguishable for all practical purposes at this point), China, Russia, India.
Aside from the US, the only other major power with a serious interest in the region is Russia. You can vaguely make an argument for the EU, but they're too concerned with the war in Ukraine to really give a shit right. At best you might see some involvement from the UK, and they're no longer strongly aligned with or capable of influencing the rest of Europe.
So basically the only way this escalates beyond a limited regional conflict is if Russia decides to throw in. For Iran. While they're struggling to win a war in Ukraine that is currently cratering their economy and killing off an entire generation of young Russian men. Do you really think they have the slightest inclination to get into a shooting war with the US right now, with everything they're currently facing? I'm not even sure they have the logistics capacity to actually get troops to Iran right now.
But what if local powers get involved? They won't. No one in the region likes Isreal or Iran. They're both pariahs. No one around them wants to get involved in a war for either of their sakes.
Hell, they can barely even fight a war with each other. Rockets and bombing raids are the only real options they have, because there's a whole lot of Iraq in between them. At best the US could stage a naval invasion (something that Isreal has no capacity to do on their own), in which case what you're looking at is another Iraq style invasion followed by twenty years of bloody, costly occupation as they try to maintain order over a mountainous region containing a hundred million people.
That's really reassuring thanks
It's another Six-day War with far more exciting weapons and a surprisingly feisty opponent. In the end, Israel always wins, mostly because it looks like Islamist regimes are shockingly bad at war. I mean Jesus fucking Christ, leaving your top scientists exposed?
Scientists are not valid military targets
That's a hell of a lot of projection, meme makers are usually highly regarded gnomes tasked with morale in factory lines of the pole and unfortunately most now freelancing because it was something with their genes not like racism but more like a mutation of sorts and this group specifically of gnomes are not fit for the usual gnome tasks which is why they are highly regarded because most gnomes wish they were in contact with computers and Internet but they can't be trusted with such
Realistically there is absolutely nothing any of us can do to stop this. Anyone who isn't an arsehole is constantly appalled and sickened by the constant conflict created by the usual sad little psychopathic narcissists.
About all we have left is black humour expressed as memes. You can't stay constantly anxious about it or you go mad, and at this point humour is basically self-preservation.
I laugh at these memes because dark humor is my only way of coping.
It seems like there's nothing else I can do. I don't just care because it might negatively impact my life. Every time I look at the news (and for sure this is not just under Trump's America, it's been going on forever) more people are dying across the world in stupid wars because of stupid childish adults in power. And now our Antichrist President is stoking things up even more and even more people will die and it's only to fuel his ego and his rich friends' interests.
I vote, I speak up, I try to do my part and be the change and all, but what more am I going to do? I could stand in the middle of the street in front of the capital and scream how wrong this is but I'll just get written up as another ignorant millennial lunatic and in the meantime I've been working sustained 50-80 hour weeks with no improvement in sight and can still barely afford to eat. Can't change the government alone, especially not when there's rent to pay and I'm bloody exhausted.
You're misunderstanding my point. I'm not telling anyone off for venting about the prospect of America kicking off yet another forever war, or another brutal bombing campaign. That shit sucks, and people need to vent about it. Sometimes dark humour is the way to do that.
My issue is very specifically with people framing it as "World War 3", even though a) its not, and it won't be, and there's nothing happening right now that could realistically cause it to be, and b) "War" should be bad enough. There's plenty to vent about right there. Actual real people will die for the sake of Netanyahu's political career and Trump's fragile ego. That's awful, and if you need to vent through memes to cope with that, fair play. But why do we have to add this entirely fictitious "world war" layer just to make it somehow worth venting about? Why build up this completely fictional set of horrors in place of the very real ones, in a way that convinces people already stricken with despair that things are somehow even worse?
You're absolutely correct. Shit really sucks right now. Everything is awful. So why the fuck would you (plural, indirect, nonspecific) want to convince people that its even worse than that? Seems like reality is already bad enough.
Point well made, I agree.
I think sometimes there's a sort of dark humor for some in exaggerating to the worst scenario in memes, knowing that it's exaggerated, but then other people find it tiresome or too much. I don't know, I don't make memes, I just steal them.
I'm actually hoping that this is another domino falling towards a world-ending ww3, this planet is fucked either way. Better to be vaporized instantly than to slowly be cooked to death over decades.
We're just trying to make more terrorists to keep business profitable.
If they don't celebrate my birthday I will celebrate their deathday
Well the parade didn't stroke his ego, so this was the next best thing.
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