No clue how some of you try to track the events of major conflicts. It just all seems like a stew of piss and vomit designed to spread disease. I can hardly read the NYT, guardian, wapost, etc. at all, much less read their war coverage. War itself is bad enough but adding in the perspectives of western analysts is just masochistic. I never want to hear a liberal of any kind mention hamas ever again. Im so sick of the measured intellectuals and their gratuitous condemnations of #violence ever again.

        • doccitrus@lemmygrad.ml
          21·
          8 months ago

          I genuinely think there is something wrong with you if it doesn’t inspire you.

          Jumping onto a post about the immense heaviness of reckoning with the human toll of this bombing campaign in Gaza and the discounting, detached way it is discussed in the media with what amounts to

          What do you mean? We get to watch spectacular violence like the ground war, isn’t that enlivening?

          is an empathy failure.

          I’ve seen some footage like what you’ve linked. It’s true that the courage of the resistance fighters in Gaza is remarkable and inspiring, and that this courage stands in contrast to the hesitancy of the IDF to even set foot on the ground they purport to invade.

          But does that really so uplift the totality of these events that it makes them somehow a pleasure to follow? And are clips like that really very informative about that totality? I think one can only answer ‘yes’ to those questions if one is selectively detached from certain facts as well as feelings.

          If anger is easier to access than grief, why? If it’s easier to focus on the ground war than the siege, why? If justified violence is easier to witness or contemplate than suffering, why?

          For someone fighting on the ground, the fight itself is the answer to those questions. But for you and me?

          It’s almost like we were taught as little boys that violence and anger are our purview, but grief and care are not; that to countenance sadness is to approach defeat.

      • WayneBarloweFan@lemmygrad.ml
        23·
        8 months ago

        I’m the first person to criticize OSINT and the competitive posting of war footage but we arr truly privileged to witness this stuff in this era of “journalism” which consists of toadies repeating the state dept etcetera & people level headed & object-permanence-having enough to criticize them & relay that analysis for a similarly disgusted audience

        This is heroism and you’re being smug. You’re out of whack imho

        • CountryBreakfast@lemmygrad.mlOP
          31·
          8 months ago

          You are a voyeur and you valorize it needlessly. I didn’t ask anyone for combat footage with hardly any context. Go pretend you are on the frontlines and ignore the damage that is being done for all I care.

          • WayneBarloweFan@lemmygrad.ml
            13·
            8 months ago

            Yeah sorry for valorizing people killing the IDF instead of trying to paint their actions as futile and meaningless. Have you considered that it isn’t and your personal taste has zero weight?