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.
I stopped reading bourgeois newspapers a while ago; I’m still exposed to them indirectly but at least it’s accompanied by anti-imperialist analysis, slowing down the brain rot
Read non-Western sources like Al Jazeera or something then (if you want to), no need to torture yourself
Maybe read something like Al Jazeera. It won’t make the situation better but at least their reporting does not have western bullshit tied to it.
Stop reading liberal-imperialist propaganda rags, i.e. the western MSM. It is well known that most of them are straight up CIA or MI6 fronts.
Once you cut out that toxic cesspool of lies from your media consumption everything becomes much clearer.
Same, I will never read works by those bourgeois deceivers ever again
I had to cut way, way back in the past week or so on all such media consumption. Even without the infuriating and callous ‘analysis’ of mainstream Western commentators, the raw facts are too painful for me to be in constant contact with them and still function.
Obviously I’m still following things, and still trying to educate myself and others. But I’ve got to limit my exposure to content, especially to video, of constant updates of ongoing events or I’ll just completely hyperfixate and shrivel up. Emotionally, it’s too much.
Avoid consuming legacy media if you have any choice at all. You’ll already be exposed to it by just existing in the world and unavoidable osmosis. It will exasperate you, it’s not healthy. You’ll benefit from avoiding it. I’m trying, it’s not easy.
I made the mistake of turning on the car radio yesterday and hearing the news brief. Needless to say it was not news, just some “explanation” about how bombing hospitals is okay because Hamas was inside.🤮
I just read Al Mayadeen and watch First Thought. The only MSM I listen to is whatever’s posted on here and occasionally NPR. I was keeping up on Telegram, but its too much.
I only read my local city’s biggest newspaper, more than half the time I keep a pen nearby to mark up the paper criticizing the whole thing, sports and food section is still nice to read. I don’t watch major TV channels bc it’s all just the same thing, unless its domestic issues, then sometimes basix CNN and NBC is tough to avoid for ok coverage, even then it depends on the topic. I still appreciate “Democracy Now!” even tho some of it is cringe, they’ve gotten better lately
https://fxtwitter.com/AryJeay/status/1724147593087746519
Damn that’s crazy because this rules
go ahead and fall for NATO strategy of pretending slaughtering innocents is a real military operation
they can’t even face a t shirted rpg guy and a sniper ha ha ha no wonder they need the conventional equivalent of a nuke
Just seems more like voyeurism than journalism to me
Muh war footage no
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This isnt a fucking sports match.
Man it would be funny to see you do this about footage of the Viet-Cong.
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.
How do you not connect the horror of the bombing campaign with the ineffectiveness of the armored vehicles? They have to unleash Hiroshima on Gaza because they HAVE NO FIGHTING CAPABILITY
Man you took a long ass time to say nothing.
Just close your eyes then, you little baby.
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My guy, you just absolutely exploded into a vicious, personal attack in response to a reminder of some basic elements of male socialization under patriarchy and a suggestion that they might play into war voyeurism.
You just responded to a report that you failed to connect with a certain emotional dimension of a post in a comradeship community with an attempt to dominate and punish, via verbal abuse, the person who pointed that out.
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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
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.
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?
yeah i can’t stand it but i also can’t ignore it because i feel like it’s important to recognize the various tactics they’re using in plain sight
