No real disagreement with you. For me the slight sadness is more just people that young have no real idea about anything. It doesn’t excuse any actions he takes that are part of something awful, but it is slightly more sad than if someone like Smotrich or Ben Gvir were killed.

When I think back to myself as a 21 year old I had all kinds of conflicting ideas and convictions, most of which got changed or adjusted as I experienced and learned more, but I’d be embarrassed to own some of the “opinions” I had at the time, in particular things I thought were de facto true politically that were simply societal brainwashing that I didn’t have the knowledge to shed yet.

Anyway, not really trying to rehab this particular “guy” (rimshot) just making a case for the possibility of feeling some sadness for these things.

[–] JustSo@hexbear.net 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Anyway, not really trying to rehab this particular “guy” (rimshot) just making a case for the possibility of feeling some sadness for these things.

I feel it too. I don't really feed any energy into it obviously and I'm not gonna advocate for empathy publicly to other people, for these genocidaires. But I can't help but think about how these fuckers could have just been relatively normal people if they hadn't been born into their genocidal society, how at one point they were innocent children, etc.

For every glimmer of empathy I feel about these dead jackboots I redirect that shit right into wondering how many innocent lives they have taken and how many more killings and atrocities they've been prevented from committing. I used to make a conscious effort to do this but now it's unconscious and the humanity I see is replaced with the real violence that person's photo abstracts

I won't shed a single tear over them ever lol. But it is just such a fucking shame. a literal shame on the west how many lives are lost or ruined and how many monsters we are creating.

[–] hotspur@hexbear.net 4 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah I think you nailed it; the sadness is almost more about how they could have just not chosen this awful and stupid route in an alternate universe, and that’s sad, that you chose this and all the deaths that unfold because of this choice. But like you say, there are way more legitimate people to be empathizing with, like the endless victims of this behavior for one.