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As a USA citizen we suffer from a culture of "blind patriotism and stupidity." A lot of people believe anything the USA did in the past is right because the USA did it. A lot of people believe all other nations are inferior, living in the USA it is very easy to be isolated from other nations. I personally find it easy to write nonsense on Lemmy from the safety of my couch.
Nationalists exist, yes. For me, the issue is that grouping masses of people together tends to end badly, in one way or another. You could hinder a lot of very good things if you regularly assume that someone is a bad person, just based off of where they live.
That being said, the people who DID want this deserve every bit of that ire.
It would really suck to be branded to be a person like that just based off of where you're from. Some people are legitimately upset over civilian deaths on both sides. Those are the comments that don't deserve anger, in my opinion. Empathy should be a good thing, no? I get it if they're saying bad things, but having empathy for all of the needless death shouldn't be seen as a bad thing.
You'd figure people would want the US to start becoming more legitimately empathetic and caring if anything. Maybe the effects from their previous involvement wouldn't have happened if there was a higher value on life. Maybe other wars would have also not happened.
Things are going wrong to some extent just about everywhere it seems. What a messed up planet though; where feeling disgust for mass murders is now controversial.
Different from what?
Because the one who can actually cause change. You should usually hold the oppressor to a higher moral standard than the oppressed.
Quote me where I said one side was worse. Do it. You're adding words and meaning that were never there.
Murdering innocent people is bad, it's not a crazy concept. I'm sure those children would feel so much better about being murdered after seeing your perspective. (Just in case, of course they wouldn't.)
I didn't specify a party again, because the whole point is that it's horrible that innocent people are dying. It's very odd that that's controversial to you. A child doesn't deserve to die more just because they're on one side of the border. Just like they wouldn't deserve to die more for being on the other side of the border.
Some of us value life, you know?