Hamas terrorist attacks sucked. Bombing whole city blocks in retaliation sucks. Indeed.
Personally I’m astonished how many seems to find it easy picking a side. The more I learn the less I feel sure about anything except that the whole situation sucks.
Picking a side sucks. Not picking a side sucks. I’m glad I don’t have political influence for this one.
As a tangent I feel it’s a bit symptomatic of our social media landscape having trust issues when we can’t allow ourselves to delegate having an opinion about one of the most infected and complex conflicts that is way out of most people’s control.
I don’t blame social media for this one. I dk where you grew up but being from the US… our government lies to us all the fucking time.
(sorry for what I’m about to do)
'Member Iraq has WMDs? 'member Abu Ghraib? 'member Gitmo? 'member “waterboarding isn’t torture”? 'member we had no warning about 9/11? 'member the “kill team” who took human body parts? 'member Iran-Contra? 'member “I am not a crook”?
Well, in a vacuum or not, it still sucked.
Hamas terrorist attacks sucked. Bombing whole city blocks in retaliation sucks. Indeed.
Personally I’m astonished how many seems to find it easy picking a side. The more I learn the less I feel sure about anything except that the whole situation sucks.
Picking a side sucks. Not picking a side sucks. I’m glad I don’t have political influence for this one.
As a tangent I feel it’s a bit symptomatic of our social media landscape having trust issues when we can’t allow ourselves to delegate having an opinion about one of the most infected and complex conflicts that is way out of most people’s control.
I don’t blame social media for this one. I dk where you grew up but being from the US… our government lies to us all the fucking time.
(sorry for what I’m about to do)
'Member Iraq has WMDs? 'member Abu Ghraib? 'member Gitmo? 'member “waterboarding isn’t torture”? 'member we had no warning about 9/11? 'member the “kill team” who took human body parts? 'member Iran-Contra? 'member “I am not a crook”?
And those are just the popular ones.
Bit of a theme there. What was the incumbent party at the time?
I don’t want to turn it into a sides thing, Obama bombed a few hospitals of his own and Biden is fumbling pretty fucking hard right now.
More examples that come to mind:
Tuskegee Syphilis study and the Regan administrations response to AIDS