Browning

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[–] Browning 1 points 1 year ago

Urge them with sanctions.

[–] Browning 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Keep posting of that's all you can do right now.

[–] Browning 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not just violence that leads to violence. Oppression and inequality also.

[–] Browning 2 points 1 year ago

Many of the nation's being spoken to here are complicit.

[–] Browning 40 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And masking it by restricting the ability of journalists to report on it, by targeting buildings associated with journalism, refusing journalists access, creating unsafe conditions for journalism and cutting power.
This is the reason that counterfactual reports about this bombing have been able to become so prevalent.

[–] Browning 6 points 1 year ago

This isn't a black and white moral issue in which something can be declared "justified" or "unjustified" and that's the end of the matter.

The razing of cities has been seen as just and unjust by various people over human history. However, if the razing of axis cities has been conducted in the old fashioned way, by killing men women and children with hand held weapons, instead of bombs dropped from a distance, then the ≈650,000 deaths that resulted might be viewed differently.

[–] Browning 13 points 1 year ago

This is why they are so keen to target electricity and journalists. It ensures that the news is dominated by one side of the story.

[–] Browning 1 points 1 year ago

I agree, the problematic issues within Ukraine are trivial compared to the problems with the way Russia or Hamas operate. However, it's also the case that the actions of Hamas are not comparable to the actions of the Israeli state, most especially in the long term.
Both sides in any conflict must be held to account for their actions or inactions, but in doing so care must be taken not to suggest that both sides are equally the orchestrators of the situation.

[–] Browning 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Absolutely. Likewise corruption and social issues in Ukraine must be denounced, although in denouncing aspects of both sides, it must not be implied that the current situation is created equally by the actions of both sides.

[–] Browning 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Like in Ukraine, it is not enough for one side to stop the violence, they must also reverse the occupation.

[–] Browning 1 points 1 year ago

Looks like someone stuck then on these people's backs and then took a photo. Not hard to do in a crowded protest.

[–] Browning 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's been this way for a long time. The terror bombing of German and Japanese cities and the way it was justified and seen as different from the atrocities the axis committed against civilians has caused the West to become brutal in a way it is blind to.

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