well yeah, you have to show an appropriate amount of hand-wringing about the atrocities you commit, enable, support, cover up, lie about, and double down on after your constituents start protesting. that’s what separates the adults in the room from the enemies of democracy.
Imagine how a Palestinian child would feel if, when a 2000 lb bomb penetrates the roof of their home at 3 am and tears them and the bodies of their entire extended family to shreds, there was some sharpie writing on the casing of the bomb. It would be unforgivable!
precisely so. there’s a certain strain of liberalism that values intent far above outcomes. i think back every so often to o. scott card’s ender’s game which started as his thought experiment: can a good person commit genocide? in which he responds with a resounding, yes! people, and by extension, nations, are good or bad, not actions. the malice with which nikki haley writes on the bombs is to be condemned, of course, but in the liberal mind the banality with which the bombs are paid for, built, packed, shipped, loaded, armed, aimed, and dropped is to be commended.
orson wrote ender’s game as a vehicle for the naked sweaty boy bathroom fight scene
porque no los dos? anyway i’m pretty sure that got added to the book but wasn’t in the original short story
worse, it would be distasteful! indecorous!
the effects are bad but the causes are very very good
“Oh, we’re fine with the genocide.”
“But we absolutely cannot abide the blatant Mortal Kombat copyright violation.”Fucking losers
Any of the separate threads criticizing Biden for this, even the most TEPID criticism, is buried
Currently, on hot sort for r/politics, we have
-16 headlines with ‘Trump’ in them, almost all related to his trial or ‘things he might do’
-0, literally 0, with ‘Biden’, ‘Joe’, ‘White House’, or ‘President’
On controversial, we have
-7 headlines with ‘Biden’, each about how he’s an asshole for letting Rafah get blown up, how democrats changed the DNC to help him, and about how his approval is in a ditch
“IF I PLUG MY EARS I CAN’T HEAR YOU LALALALA”The “writing things on a bomb is always wrong” is also backfiring when people are posting pictures of black soldiers from ww2 writing messages to Hitler in the bombs.
Also that whole thing where ukraine was literally crowdfunding by charging people to wrote messages on bombs.
Not only are they performativelt outraged they’re also making themselves look like morons.
