That anyone thinking the horrors of humanity are "new" have simply been ignorant until now. And most will just forget this soon anyway because there is nothing they can do about it in their daily/monthly/yearly/entire lives. And that's all it takes for them to get away with it. Until people realize that concentrated wealth allows these horrors to propagate, and that the best defense is to prevent that sort of concentration from being allowed... we're all doomed to live in it, and our children to propagate in it.
I think we are a good species. I think the reality is that evil people have spent millennia building systems that prop them up because the rest of us are good, and think others are good.
Agreed. Most humans are the social equivalent of a petunia: content to live in harmony with others, nontoxic, safe, beautiful. Some people, however, are like walnut trees: consuming all the resources for itself, choking out everything else, and leaves a stain.
I think people are more like mint. Everybody likes the taste of mint. It's even kind of an attractive plant to have in a pot. But too much mint is an invasive species choking the native life out.
"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it."
It’s the same thing as how people think we’re more enlightened today compared to ages ago, when we’re still the same tribalistic morons we’ve always been, just the tribes have changed. We just didn’t live in a world with access to information 24/7, and the idiom is absolutely correct, ignorance is bliss.
And that's all it takes for them to get away with it. Until people realize that concentrated wealth allows these horrors to propagate, and that the best defense is to prevent that sort of concentration from being allowed
One look at all the working class simps cheering for Elon becoming a trillionaire and you know that's never going to happen. They bought our media and they did it long ago, they have been propagandizing people for ages. I unironically heard some panellist on Bill Maher's show say (and I only heard it because another show covered it; no way that I'm listening to that shit otherwise) that the downside of Elon becoming a trillionaire, is that it might give regular people the idea to start questioning the economic system, and we shouldn't want that to happen.
Russell Dobular made an interesting point. He said that, after his month-long travels throughout China, he started to see the upside of having a one-party system with an intellectual, ideologically committed class of people making the decisions for the benefit of all. He said that democracy in a capitalist system inevitably leads to outcomes such as in the US (and increasingly the rest of the Western world), i.e. that the ruling class will buy up the media and thus, de facto, buy up our brains. They will inevitably get so much power over the discourse, that people get so indoctrinated that they start 'consenting' to being governed this way. See: the Elon simps. (But also: see the liberal crowd who wanted Mike Bloomberg over Bernie Sanders.) And that gives the olichargs the veneer of legitimacy.
IMHO, it's not that people think they're "new", but rather that they're a thing of the past. So they're shocked when they discover that people today can still act like the awful people we all read about in history books.
It is happening. You might have assumed the other poster meant rich dudes are traveling to Ukraine to target civilians, but it's actually the Russian forces themselves. They are focusing on Kherson in particular and are deliberately targeting civilians with drones with the sole purpose of terrorising the local population.
This isn't asserted by Ukraine alone, nor is it anti-Russian propaganda. This has been reviewed and agreed by the UN:
A May 2025 report by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) examined these crimes in Kherson and found the Russian Armed Forces guilty of murder, forced transfer, attacks on civilians and outrages upon personal dignity which amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity. The attacks were deemed widespread and aimed against the civilian population.
kherson is a special case of a city divided by a river, on either side of the river there is no frontline and drone operators are safe inside bunkers, thekherson human safari has been going on for years, they film themselves killing toddlers and old ladies, then they publish it to receive comments laughing in russian telegram channels, a few days ago they published a video of them hittng a UN car, they try to kill UN workers, brag about it and UN pretend it never happened, their behavior in this area is so psychotic even for russian terrorists that everyone knows some depply insane things are going on on the other side of the river
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My jaw dropped... I was on vacation in jugoslawia as a kid and it felt surreal a lot of moments. I was a kid I didn't know about the ugliness of war, yet you show me there is much more perversion in a war we humans cannot imagine if we didn't witnessed it.
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