You're just a bunch of new cruel people being cruel to other people who'll end up being cruel to you

Nov 21, 2015 13:07

Congratu-fucking-lations, President Hollande. You've retaliated with airstrikes and killed a bunch of Their civilians.

Is that enough now? If not, how many will be? How many of Them do you want to kill before you'll feel like you've sufficiently avenged those of Us that They killed? How many of Them to you want to make feel the rage you feel now? How many of Them do you want to forge into feeling the need and the self-righteous justification for retaliation that you feel?

As John Oliver so eloquently put it, "this attack was carried out by gigantic fucking assholes. Unconscionable flaming assholes, possibly working with other fucking assholes. Definitely working in service of an ideology of pure assholery".

Why, why, WHY do We have to co-inhabit that level of pure assholery with Them? Isn't there some path We can take where We are not also gigantic assholes? Or are we doomed to be ruled by people who look like grown-ups, but are still incapable of exercising any sort of emotional self-control in the face of provocation, and can't help but blindly, unthinkingly, and totally predictably lashing back in return?

Asshole.

asshats, war, reallife

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