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[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Do you think I'm absolving them of guilt?

Not at all!

I just think they can be reeducated through direct exposure and forced labor.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Ah fair enough, I misunderstood your point and came in a little hot. I still think certain members of the IOF (mainly pilots but pretty much any one directly involved in the genocide) should get the barbara-pit. Another example are the IOF foot soldiers who are walking through the rubble of a city, the stench of death permeating the air, while they are laughing and taking selfies. They are already up close and personal with the atrocities being committed. If they had an iota of sympathy for the Palestinian people they would have defected, illegal-to-say, or done some drastic protest akin to what Aaron Bushnell did.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

It takes more than sympathy to defect, that takes courage. The penalty is almost certain death or worse.

Aaron Bushnell is far braver than us. How can we comdemn cowards to death for being too afraid to betray their rulers when we, too, are choosing to not throw our bodies into the gears of the empire?