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> You don’t have any enemies. Nobody cares about you. Nobody is coming to hurt you or your family Do you think the U.S. and Israeli militaries have personal ve
by JumpCrisscross 8mo ago
> You don’t have any enemies. Nobody cares about you. Nobody is coming to hurt you or your family
Do you think the U.S. and Israeli militaries have personal vendettas against each and every civilian we've killed in Iran? Of course we don't. We can barely count them. Just because you aren't personally on your community's adversary's radar doesn't mean they aren't a threat.
(To be clear, I don't believe Iran was a threat. But there are threats to Americans, and it's absolutley not brainwashing to ascribe a threat to a group to oneself personally instead of waiting for it to be purely selfishly relevant before acting.)
- keybored 8mo agoThe number one most proximate enemy to a regular person is their local/national elite and their sycophants/enablers. How easy this is to comprehend when Iran is killing protesters.
- amrocha 8mo ago[flagged]
- zarathustreal 8mo agoYou’re significantly worse off assuming your government is adversarial than cooperative, regardless of what reality may be, and the majority of us know that. It’s why the chaos psyops aren’t working. We’re not happy with our government but apes together strong
- amrocha 8mo ago[flagged]
- zarathustreal 8mo ago[dead]
- JumpCrisscross 8mo ago> what has that attitude gotten you? I've gotten language I wrote passed into multiple state and a few federal laws. Definitey helps when I'm the only one to call my electeds on an issue. The lazy and nihilistic aren't great for our country. But they're great if you put any work into civic engagement.
- amrocha 8mo ago[flagged]
- JumpCrisscross 8mo ago> Nobody is going to attack the US if your government stopped trying to meddle in other countries affairs How did that work out for Ukraine? The idea that we live in a just world where everyone who has chaos rain down on them deserves it is so simply refuted even by a cursory glance at just modern history.
- amrocha 8mo ago[flagged]
- dang 8mo agoWe've banned this account for repeatedly posting flamewar comments and ignoring our requests to stop. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html p.s. No, this is is not because of the account's political views; I haven't tracked them and don't know what they are. We just care about preserving this forum as a place for curious, respectful conversation, whatever one's views.