OrionsMask

These people are evil animals, it's exactly what I expect from them. Whether they're doing this or defending the murder, it's all the same and I hope karma fucking finds them.

I'm an Israeli

All you need to know. Hard to be surprised anymore by the degree of evil that follows those words.

Stopped going on Reddit since the Ukraine war started, it became insufferable and I have no idea how people stayed through the heart of that.

I am not playing "devil's advocate" - if you can't take what I'm saying in good faith, don't engage with me. I don't need to be spoken to condescendingly. What your post boils down to is the semantics of adventurism and once again, you people fail to understand people who feel the need to strike out and try to make a change (which is what we're talking about, regardless of which word you feel like using).

If people who are angry don't know the difference between adventurism and an organized militant vanguard...

https://hexbear.net/post/7235453

Here's a thread you might benefit from reading.

I am not advocating for adventurism and I am not saying adventurism works - but I understand the desperation, the defiance, and the rage. People who only mock or dismiss these feelings don't help anyone and do not make a compelling case to not do adventurism.

At this point people have been reading the gloating comments of libs and chuds all day. They've been doom-scrolling and their blood is up.

Just going to amend this to: "At this point people have been watching the extermination of a people that has been rubber stamped by the entire western world. They've been doom-scrolling and their blood has been up for over 2 years"

Now they'll push the boundaries of fed posting until it wears off and then we'll go back to baseline. We've done this before.

Yes, this is true. Until the next bloodboiling, mind breaking war crime happens, and then those feelings will all rush back again.

Sorry but there isn't anyone who comes close to having 1/8th of the weird charisma that Trump does. Of course he's a figurehead, but the puppeteers are making good use of the unique world he's cultivated. Not everyone can get away with doing the most heinous things and just brushing them off with dismissive one-liners or incomprehensible rants.

It's that brovado that might be emboldening them to push forward with more and more brazen acts where someone else who was leading the charge straight up could not command the needed degree of overconfidence. (Again, hypothetical, pointless, because we're talking about a parallel universe, but I do think Trump is not so easily replaced like for like.)

Yeah, a magical new guy with the same cult following that Trump had groomed for 8 years would spring up suddenly and take over with the same degree of support.

And "more competent"? We've already got concentration camps and gestapo in the US, I daresay a "more competent" (less egomaniacal) head might have thought twice before kidnapping a fucking president of a sovereign nation.

But who knows, all of this is make believe. The point though is that acts of terror could in theory very much achieve things if done right.

Acts of terror achieve nothing

If an act of terror had been aimed a few inches more carefully in 2024, we might have avoided some of this past year.

It's not, you're fine, it's important to spread this message because it is so easy to feel alone resisting manufactured consent.

This is also a mentality barrier. As long as we allow them to wield that threat over the world, they will never stop. The nukes aren't going away, and at some point "death to Amerikkka... unless they have nukes in which case Amerikkka can do whatever they want to anyone anywhere" will have to become "no, really, just death to Amerikkka."

There is this idea that we just accept that any kind of nuclear confrontation will result in a chain reaction that destroys the world. That's possible, yes, and terrifying. But is it the only possible outcome? Could an existential threat wake the US the fuck up and remind it that it can die just like everyone else? It seems like that's what's missing right now. The US sees itself as untouchable because it is, no one is willing to try to fight back, and as long as it continues to believe that, it will continue to bully and subjugate the entire world.

Would Pete Hegseth and the other devils behave this way if there was a real, serious risk of them and their families being vaporised in an instant? Would their billionaire masters risk it? I think they might think twice, but no one actually has the guts and they know it and it emboldens them.