Target has a forensics lab? What?
Iwishiwasntthisway
joined 6 months ago
They live in the US. They're more CNN brained than anything but they follow shit a lot that way and get really emotional about it
They will retell and retraumatize themselves the consequences of this genocide for generations without respect to what they perpetrated and the survivors of the genocide will have moved on and healed by then.
My inlaws are not happy people this last year. I hate to play armchair psychologist or whatever but it's like their relationship with the place is really brittle and disordered. Amber Frost had a quote somewhat recently about "joy" vs "glee". Times like these do not evoke joy, they evoke glee. Then they'll see an article that offers token criticism of civilian losses and despair like the cattle cars are coming.
I really don't like a lot of the rhetoric about cultural or racial intergenerational trauma... I think it stretches concepts like family systems and epigenetics to the limit of believability. It also poisoned by the dominant narrative. Zionists are often forgiven for being overly reactive because of intergenerational trauma, but somehow this is not applicable to Russians, for example. And really, all of us living are descended almost entirely from slaves and peasants. Even the oligarchy.
The "intergenerational trauma" in this case stretches back further than WWII into what basically constitutes ancient mythology. It is an evolved system to reconstitute and consolidate power within that system. The cultural narrative there is intentionally traumatizing, as such that there is a particular disordered response to these matters. It parallels a lot of the defense mechanisms you see in personality disordered people. Black/white thinking, shame vs guilt, extreme measures to avoid shame.
I really hate the word gaslighting, everywhere I go on the Internet that's geared towards women my age it's gaslighting this or gaslighting that.
But this really is gaslighting at this point. I can't even untangle it all. I have no way of explaining it all to somebody who hasn't been following this shit. I feel like I'd sound like a "crazy ex girlfriend".
Sometimes it really does feel like I'm going crazy. And maybe it's supposed to make me feel like that so I feel powerless or something. But when a 37 year old suburban woman spends a good percentage of her time fantasizing about building an RPG in her garage, there's got to be some testosterone fueled people who have less to lose who actually might.
Anime titties used to be a decent baby leftist/ succdem space and now any geopolitical thread that gets over a certain amount of updoots gets fucking nuked in about 3 hours.
It's the laziness that's astounding. Like you can mass create accounts and use AI to puppet them, shit really shouldn't be this obvious
I don't think you get involved with a resistance movement if you are afraid to die. They would be bombing civilians either way.
Can somebody point me to any good resources about the relationship between Russia and Syria? It looks like another proxy front is going to open up there, and if NATO is starting to pressure Zelensky to reach a settlement I assume Russia can just flood it with weapons. Basically a reverse Operation Cyclone. The wartime economy has also been pretty good to Russia
I'd like to believe that, but they also like do massacres right after defeats. It isn't rational.
I keep hearing the election is a factor, but I guess I'm struggling to see why. Nobody in power cares which figurehead is the American "president". Foreign policy isn't up for debate - nobody is even bothering trying to run on an anti interventionist platform anymore. They aren't pretending to ask your opinion.