Its horrifying how they consider bombing and killing of brown people as some distraction
this post was submitted on 11 Mar 2026
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And this is the best case scenario. It's either this or they literally think they're meaningless collateral in the West's noble mission to save the world.
Even NPR was leading off with what kind of strikes cause what kind of effect at the gas station
I fucking hate gas powered cars
The news is reporting on the dead children? That's news to me.
Yes? They literally are?
Yep disgusting when this is a common take away to hundreds of dead kids.
Credit the artist!
It's yeehawtheboys
cool, I just saw it on my mastodon feed and had no idea who it was by
I feel like I could ask any random guy on the street how many American soldiers have died so far, and they'd tell me 7, but if I asked them how many little girls died when they bombed that school, they'd be like "fake news, we'd never bomb a school."
To be fair, some if might be fake news.
Iran has propaganda too.
Don't take this in any way to be pro US or IL.
Sadly I think you are right.
It's missing a 'Live, Laugh, Love' poster in the background.
*wall tattoo
Feel the same way about people wringing their hands over dead US soldiers, as though they're the only people who matter.
A Thai shipping frigate just got hit in the Straight of Hormuz, and I have seen absolutely nobody on national news raise the question of whether any of the crew were injured or killed. Similarly, Israel and the UAE have been incredibly close-mouthed about civilian deaths from Iranian attacks into civilian areas, because they consider it a public embarrassment. Nobody seems to want to talk about the "collateral damage".
And then there's the death toll in Iran itself. I was getting ear-blasted with "Iranian Government Murders 10,000! 20,000! 30,000! people!" for weeks. Suddenly, Iranian deaths don't matter, unless they're high ranking politicians or military figures.
This reeks of the same coverage we got out of Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan, and Ethiopia. National news is entirely contained within jingoistic nationalist terms. We're covering (and increasingly gambling) on the outcome like its a basketball game.
Vile.
I believe everyone from that Thai ship survived, at least haven't seen casualties mentioned. The boat wasn't like destroyed, but it did get hit by some explosives.
Might have been a warning. Small attack, not intended to actually sink the ship, but enough to warn others Iran is serious about closing the straight.
What is a Thai shipping frigate?
i was hoping to get back into gig work soon, but without gasoline i guess i'm just gonna die in a ditch
I ask this for all americans but what is petrol?
Lame
Yeah, this isn't the western world... This is the prominent assholes in the western world.
Amazingly enough, good and bad people are in all countries and locations. The bad people just tend to be the loudest, and the news loves talking about them because they are also mostly bad people.
There is something to be said about a society that allows the worst of its members to make all the decision. At some point, the rest of the society has to take responsibility for the atrocities said society commits. And that's particularly so in case of western societies which claim to be democracies. You can't have it both ways.
it isn't about any individual assholes, it's about a people who foster a culture where this sort of take is considered acceptable.