YappyMonotheist

There’s big money behind it now, I guess. 🤷

The Western European ethos stays strong!

It’s always the same with these people… Morality later, when it’s convenient maybe, but not now. It’s not like we’re asking Contrapoints to go to Gaza herself (not everyone is brave like Greta), just to show her ideological opposition to the immorality of the empire… 🤷

For the middle aged white American or…? Even then, the question seems to mean more as words than as an actual inquiry. It’s just too big of a question for it to mean anything. 30 years ago different brown people were getting bombed, for instance!

If you’re one of those brave dudes trying to hit aircraft with old rocket launchers while sprinting in your flipflops, you’re almost certainly putting down evil, sure.

I mean, there are soldiers fighting for their countries’ safety today! They’re just not the ones thousands of kilometres away from home (they might be piloting drones on the other side of the world, I guess, lol), of course.

If you’re in the middle of nowhere, with your small loving tribe, and don’t know much about whatever ongoing genocide and needless destruction, or about capitalism and the depraved, Diddy-level hedonism, you might sleep better at night than those who do but also feel powerless to change it. What about having terminal cancer? Wouldn’t it be better to just live your last days in happy ignorance? Information is a double-edged sword, basically, and when you know A, you hate A and you also ‘know’/feel unable to change A, it’s just poison.

There are situations in which this will happen, just like there are situations in which women will remain calm while a majority of men will lose their minds (I’m sure there are some male Vs female global statistics on physical violence that show it, lol). No-one is calm and reasonable all the time. 🤷

The best way, IME, is to know exactly in which ways these people are mistaken so you can ask the right questions until they’re eventually left with untenable conclusions/information that doesn’t fit reality. And it definitely helps if you state at all times that you’re worried about the person, that you’re not doing this because someone’s paying you or for the fun of it but out of concern, that you could be chilling or doing anything else but you’re here hoping you can get through to them, etc etc. But even then, at any moment they can just have a small ‘frustration aneurysm’ and leave the path of logic behind… In the end, we can’t ‘force’ people to believe in what we believe in, regardless of how much sense it makes and/or how useful it would be for them; either we’re open and clear minded enough to be reasonable or we’re not. 🤷

The previous narratives at least allowed for some form of limited ethical considerations, but even that is too radical nowadays in the US…

You know your society is psychologically burnt to a crisp when positive values and empathy can’t even be “pushed” through fiction, lol.

It’s also an American propaganda site and an echo chamber for “white”/Western European supremacists! And they also have lame in-jokes, lol. I remember when the worst part of Reddit was the last thing I mentioned… 🥲

If only the circumstances that spawned them would change too…

Being selfless, kind and peaceful even when powerful quite literally goes against the Western ethos and to deny it is to deny not only history but contemporary Western societies as well (from the neverending colonization of the world, native American genocide included, to the recent “empathy is a sin” take, lol).

Read: America and most of the West, through Israel, will continue the colonization project of the Middle East that started about a century ago and, although it hasn’t always been easy, they’re as committed to the genocide, pillaging and displacement in the region as they were when the project started. Empires will empire, the rest is wind and sweet words for the ignorant masses.

The OG trilogy was an interesting-enough drama with a vibrant setting, made groundbreaking by their special effects. Everything else in the franchise was made to sell toys, with maybe one or two exceptions. It’s not supposed to be taken seriously like that, I think…

But the stupidly hateful and violent communities of the world do not love people like that, lol. They don’t understand humanity, and by extension themselves, so they fear it and in their unexamined fear they’re easier to manipulate. And then they go to Hell for their actions, or at least I believe so. 🤷

I’m sorry to hear about this, it sounds more serious than what I thought. I think you should talk about it with the kindest/most understanding person you know. You might not be able to talk to this person because you might “get in trouble” but you can talk about them/the situation to get a clearer picture. Take care, dingus, and don’t lose hope.

What is this ‘society’ nonsense? You can express your desires and feelings without having to explode, that’s the solution. And when you eventually do, because you’re human and mistakes will happen, apologise profusely and understand “the work” is not yet done. Also whatever you propose is not only a denial of your own humanity, in vain and for your own detriment (and immature too, which is not a good look!), but also the kind of things dudes try before they shoot up churches and festivals.

You are human, after all, a social animal. You’re gonna have to open up as calmly as you can when the situation calls for it, instead of not saying anything because you don’t feel brave enough to be vulnerable (maybe you feel like the people around you will only misunderstand you and make it worse?), so resentment doesn’t add up in the background and you don’t end up exploding. And I’m not just preaching here, I’m speaking from experience!

in an EU-backed Red Sea operation.

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