• Tommasi [she/her, pup/pup's]@hexbear.net
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    30 upvotes: Doves win political power, surrender, then say “see, interventionism can never work!”

    Genuinely flat-earth levels of delusion to think this is how the US operates. A take so ignorant it stops being annoying and starts being funny.

  • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    We are where we are, the Houthis are not going to stop because we asked them to be nice and meeting their demands is not tenable.

    We CAN’T stop genociding Palestinians, that is a non-starter.

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      “They didn’t accept our conditons of fuck off and die and give us all your possesi9ns in the mean time so anything that happens to them is their own fault at this point”

      Well at least we have a concrete example of victim blaming.

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      well of course they cant stop genociding, that would mean giving up on the founding principle of america. they might as well declare the country over at that point.

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    Lmao “Look it’s not that we can’t stop the Houthis, it’s that we don’t want to escalate because it could start a war and we’re being nice.”

    Amerikkkan brainworms are unmatched.

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    Sooner or later, one or more American warships are gonna get blown up in a mass casualty event with a ton of US sailors dead. It’s not a matter of if, its a matter of when. Then Biden will order the withdrawal of the US navy from the region and cede it completely to Iran.

    sicko-laser yes-hahaha-yes-l

  • RyanGosling [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    Houthis made neoliberals go mask off for their support of Saudi Arabia lol. Koshoggi is a faded memory, and now they’re on the same page as Trump in terms of supporting the country’s military and wars

  • macerated_baby_presidents [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    This operation could be successful if it was treated like an actual war. Target […] supply lines, and have some tolerance for civilian casualties.

    the_dunk_tank is so bad for my brain. redditor powerusers blithely calling for innocent deaths. this guy is roughly the same age as me. what are we going to do with these people?

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    Favorite comment so far:

    The Houthis are an hereditary cult, why has no one ever attempted to just kill their religious leader and all of his male descendants (as I guess they won’t accept females) to prevent heirs so as to cause a succession dispute and possibly disrupt the movement? Rather than restraining aid their don’t care about because popular support is not material.

    when you have zero idea how martyrs work

    • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      Not strictly true. This operation could be successful if it was treated like an actual war. Target C2 elements and political leadership, supply lines, and have some tolerance for civilian casualties. That allows for interfering with communications between the arms supplier (Iran) and the user (Houthis), disrupting areas of control and forcing them to content with rival Yemeni factions, and reduces cross-coordination between the groups firing.

      Ok but just listen, if we killed a few civilians it would be worth it for me to get my Funko Popperinos faster.

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        The wild thing is that all of this is because they’re already killing MASSIVE amounts of civilians. They’re literally doing a genocide. So basically this guy is saying “Well maybe we just need to do TWO genocides and that’ll stop it!”

        Technically correct I guess though. If you genocide everyone then humanity at least won’t have any more wars. Malthusian libs are extra weird.

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          Step back from dunking on the clowns, and it’s a harrowing example of where we’re at as a people, a planet. “Vicious Cycle” doesn’t begin to do it justice. It’s easy to industrialize the slaughter of people. But it isn’t easy to stop. It has inertia. Mass. It distorts all further decision making, bends it all inward. “Ceasefire”? “Just stop”? To the individuals in charge, they’re already past the point where that’s unthinkable. “We’re already at speed, the machine at full throttle! If we try to stop now, it could break. Can’t do that. Don’t you see? We live in this thing!”

          From that position, as far as they are willing to think about it, the only logical thing to do is steer. To push the black hole towards the cities and towns and peoples that they think deserve it. And that perspective trickles down down. Down to the little functionaries. The tissues and cells working within the machine. “Randos” throwing their voice into the digital void are more likely to empathize with the pilot of the death machine. Because the people being eaten are far away. Because they don’t look like me. Because they don’t speak my language, so as far as I know they don’t even think like people do. They mirror death-pilot thoughts, and spew out justification while claiming to be clear-eyed, rational. “I’m just telling it like it is.”

    • GlueBear [they/them, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      That whole site is basically Facebook for gen x and millennials, except significantly more obnoxious and unfunny. I mean you literally can’t have a single post without the first (several!) comment(s) being some stupid fucking karma farming pun or joke.

      I literally was looking up images of chocolate cake so I could find recipes and I clicked on a picture that led to a reddit post asking about a recipe that could make moist, dense chocolate cake. Just a normal request, what’s a recipe for good fucking chocolate cake?

      The first 200+ comments on that post were all puns. I had to scroll all the way to the bottom to actually find people contributing actual recipes and techniques.

      God they are so fucking worthless.

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      What alt- right purge.

      Any sub with the work “dank” “meme” or anything not explicitly political is full to the gills of the worst chids you could imagine.

      Just saw a post of some people nodding on hard drugs, comment section was upvoting people saying they were useless trash, somebody got downvoted for saying pharmaceuticals were to blame and the comment “there’s no link between prescriptions and hard drug use” had dozen of upvotes

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        That opinion is pretty common with liberals, especially if the person in question is homeless. There’s definitely been a purge and those that remain stay on meme subs or the 4chan-centric subs.

        The alt-right isn’t as strong on Reddit as the new alt-center neoliberals seem to be. A lot of the same opinions but with a thin layer of civility.

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    We’ve cut the military budget vs. inflation for years, and much of those cuts have gone to procurement.

    powercry-2 Waaaaa, pentagon budget hasn’t gone up quite as much relative to inflation! Think of the poor Chrysler salesmen!