What reengages my empathy muscle is remembering that lots of these people are fucking miserable, even if they lack the introspection to appreciate it. Imagine being a fucking evangelical conservative housewife for instance - no real agency or support or avenue to grow. Even imagine yourself as an evangelical conservative bread-winning husband - no real avenue for self expression or discovery, and you harm the people around you constantly without a framework to understand that.

Even when you look at fascist states like Israel, how fucking tragic for all of those indoctrinated people that their worldview is as narrow and corrupted as it is, and, honestly, most of those people didn’t have a hope in hell. Fucking cooked because they happened to be born in a fascist state.

Whenever I go down this line of thinking, I always end up feeling that it’s just so… sadly rational that so many awful people are full of that weird impotent rage.

NB: I am also definitely not saying that I’m some saint who can always keep this thinking, it is truly advice on framing that makes me personally hate people less when I have the energy for it.

Nah, I’m just a normal person without an editor. MB fam

I think I got it

That’s a fair point

I had meant purely that I didn’t recall a Hezbollah retaliation as wide scale as this before now. Clearly they’re being intentionally provoked, and are not in any sense the aggressors here.

What do you think is a better way to say it? I will edit

Edit: I just made it super academic and it fixed it as far as I can see.

The anime is a complete story IMO, but obvs your call ¯\(ツ)/¯

Agree!

I liked the below, if you don’t mind a bit of fantasy isakei being in the mix.

JP title: Tensei Oujo to Tensai Reijou no Mahou Kakumei

EN title: The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady

“Hah, how wonderful! And how do they reply when you say you don’t necessarily want them to die?”

“I don’t say that.”