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Comment by anonymous908213

4 days ago

Combat footage is coming out by the minute. Watching it, I don't understand how Americans can be so fundamentally evil. Watching helicopters gun people on the ground down. What makes you so sick in the head that you would do this? How could you obey these orders and feel nothing as you slaughter innocent people? There isn't even any possible pretext to this invasion. They know what they're doing and still choose to do it. It's utterly incomprehensible.

Genuinely, I think ~30% of Americans just like it when other people suffer. This might also be true of people in general

  • Yep. It's the illiberal authoritarians. The people who need hierarchy, for domination and submission. This is why equality is an scary abomination to them.

    All societies have such people. But civil societies prevent them from gaining significant power. Failing that, it's going to be expensive.

    This society elected a known abuser. Of course this society will be abused. But also because of this society's global power, the world will also be abused.

  • I'd like to see a study or more information that backs up this ~30% statement - That is alarming!

    • There was a large scale self-reported study in November of 2024. It was actually way over 30%, if you ignore non-respondents.

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The hostility toward your comment proves the point: Americans willl only understand when their own cities suffer the same fate

Ironically, that prospect is approaching with each passing year