YouTuber Ethan Klein calls for bombing of NRA conference
(thepostmillennial.com)
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I am aware that we occasionally hear of 'incidents'. But you can't claim that the war in Ukraine is covered anywhere remotely the same as American wars, where it is 'really cool' when bombs and missiles are used.
How many photographs of devastated cities and corpses do we see in American wars? Very few to none, yet that is all we see when it is the Evil Russians.
Huh? Just look like how everyone socially just, including other game devs, sperged the fuck out about 6 Days in Fallujah, or how just everybody are always going on about Obama and drones (despite drone strikes being accurate and limited in damage). Everyone hysterizes about WP (having forgotten the depleted uranium scare) while thermite isn't even a household name for those on the receiving side of it. Everyone in the world knows about Abu Ghraib (but were interested only when it was under the American management, not before and not after), did you ever hear the name Chernokozovo? How many people know of "My Lai" (incorrect name) versus Samashki? Game journos, who hate America, declared the Highway of Death a "war crime" somehow and said COD blamed this supposed "American crime" on the poor innocent Russia, and everyone in America and beyond just believed them like that. I could go on and on.
'Everybody' here apparently meaning right-wing and left-wing populists, who have precisely zero influence - which is why Trump intensified the drone strikes to zero criticism.
Biden can 'accidentally' blow up an Afghan family, and no one cared. When Putin's artillery hits a family, he's a war criminal. You can cite Western hypocrisy for days, as it is their state religion, it's just not very productive.
Chechnya? Now compare the outrage of the hypocrite West over Bucha to My Lai.
They hate the nation, but they love the Empire.
You make some fair points, but when have you ever seen the media contemporaneously cover America's wars the way they cover what Russia does? Whenever they admit they did something wrong, it's always in the past. Sort of like the CIA strategy, "we did bad things 30 years ago, but now now" - and they say this regardless of the year.
People cared a whole lot. Disproportionately. The journalists around the world reported it, investigated it thoroughly (denying the official story), and we discussed it in multiple threads. But when thousands died in Mariupol only few were given names and faces by the only journalists remaining in the besieged city before their escape (the Russians were looking for them), and it's also old news and forgotten already. And the "discussion" here was so disrespectful to the victims, typically for this place.
Dude, no one defends (or denies) "My Lai" (Son My) even in America. The helicopter pilots who rescued villagers by threatening to kill infantrymen were given medals. What "hypocrite West"? Politkovskaya in A Small Corner of Hell wrote about "heroes and medals", medals are given to literal murderers, but (her example) a major who single handedly rescued dozens of elderly (ethnic Russian) people from the house of blind during the destruction of Grozny got no awards or recognition because he saved people and didn't kill them. She too was later murdered.
There was literally nothing wrong about the Highway of Death. A textbook great military victory. The Russians did a mini version in Kherson on the first day (over 100 retreating Ukrainian vehicles hit or abandoned on a single road) and there was also nothing wrong with this by itself.
It is a criminal offense in Russia to even write truth about WWII (up to 5 years for "falsifying history").
Yeah, Charlie Savage of the NYT said that "the US has an incredible line into ISIS-K".
Most journalists are propagandists. They deserve no respect, except if they were there to actually tell the truth, rather than spread talking points of the American empire..
Belatedly. At the time, there were songs in support of Calley, claiming that he was persecuted for doing his duty, and he and a fellow miscreant were pardoned by Nixon. And what they did is worse than anything the Russians are alleged to have done in Bucha, though I also do not see other Russian troops threatening them with force to stop such things.
I did not argue that there was, though it is regretful that a country with such a low birth rate should lose people.
Which truths?