What a rotten country the united states of america has become
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Become? Always was, just worse now.
we've been bombing Yemen since Obama was president. you are right though.
First time?
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This isn't just a yemeni shopkeeper keeping calm. That's probably his son.
He's scared shitless. But he also knows that if one of those bombs hits his shop, they're dead. So he's being a parent instead.
In the face of crisis, the first thing a parent can do is either panic, making the entire experience worse for the kid, or stay calm and collected, demonstrating that "this too, shall pass."
It's weird, when I'm around my kids, I feel like my ability to make decisions is improved, I feel like I'm less prone to any sort of panic. There's something about having them with me, I suppose it's that I know that I need to be the one to "figure things out," that helps me see things more clearly. Or perhaps I've just matured a bit. Or perhaps life has just beaten me down so much that nothing is new.
It's maturity and some of the latter for me.
I want everyone who isn't vocally opposing the war on terror to see videos like this until they fucking learn human empathy.
I don't think a missing human emotion can legitimately be learned. Sociopaths can do ok at faking it but they will never actually feel it.
Yeah we learned last year that half of this fucking country runs on pure hate for anyone who isn't exactly like them, and even then they'll find reasons to hate them too. They're suffering but other people suffering worse actually makes them feel better. Then they're shocked and appalled when their Walmart trip gets more expensive and their response to it is that other people should still be hurt more.
They have no empathy. They do not have the capability to think about anyone other than themselves, and it shows daily.
Yet you can injure people with culture. Constantly stoking emotions like fear and its siblings hatred, loathing, and obedience, eventually stimulates the amygdala into an enlarged state.
The problem is not just ideology, it's biology. Cults are freaky, man. There's the psychology of inducing trances and there's even probably some weird acausal shit that we don't understand and would label magic.
But our persistence as a species relies on us figuring it out.
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Yemeni shopkeeper during illegal US terrorist bombing.
Remember all the narrative about the modern warfare and "surgical operations"?
JD Vance said in the signal messages they don't know who the Houthis are. So surgical operations can't really exist unless they spot some equipment and can identify it's purpose as being an anti ship weapon.
Really they are just bombing innocents more than likely and hoping for I don't know what
Fuck the USA, everyone who voted for the orange fuck.