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Some absolutely bloodthirsty fucks in that thread

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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.”

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20 points

forcing them to contend with rival factions

Conservatives have the One Joke, neolibs have the One Strategy

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OK just hear me out, there’s this moderate rebel faction that could really pop off with some discrete arms shipments from Uncle Sam…

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Divide et Impera? Yes, it’s a classic of empire management.

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apparently I have been preemptively banned from r/neoliberal

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Reddit won’t even let me make a new account, I get insta banned the moment I do you piss off the wrong mods. It’s kinda good though, I avoid that hellsite now

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Step 1 is to use a different browser than when you were banned. Step 2 is to use a fake email address to activate the account. https://temp-mail.org/en/ I found that when i didnt use an email, i was shadowbanned fast but if you use an email it seems to get around it.

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Pretty sure it’s a hardware ID ban, if I make a new account and log in on any of my devices I’m instantly banned without posting

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They shadowbanned me when I joined, but when I appealed and mentioned that I’m just using a VPN and not ban-evading, they lifted it. I’m one of the lucky ones, I’m sure they’ve denied appeals of lots of people who were in my situation

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Same forgot my password after they got rid of third party apps so tried to make a new one and it got banned within 24 hours for ban evasion because id previously been banned from worldnews for saying giving unlimited military aid to proud self avowed nazis was bad.

I was banned for spreading misinformation.

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$5 they went through and pre-emptively banned anyone that was subbed to CTH. I got perma banned from there when I cited their rule on glorifying violence and asked if that meant they were opposed to U.S. foreign policy.

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cited their rule on glorifying violence and asked if that meant they were opposed to U.S. foreign policy

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That’s a badge of honor.

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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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23 points

long may they mald

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