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The site that hosts literal snuff videos from wars?
i feel privileged to be able to see war footage. this hasn't really been possible for most of human history. you can look and see the brutality of war and what it really means to "die for your country"
i don't agree with censoring war videos. i'm glad that reddit abstains from this. i'm certain they will be banning it in the future. in think in near future we will not get any media outside of a giant firewall much like China
I don't want to censor war video footage either, but still it would be much more reasonable to do it before censoring 'violence inciting' text.
Seeing those videos turned me into a pacifist.
Those just glorify the military industrial complex - this event broke the cardinal rule of being effectively anti-capitalist.
The original Iraq war coverage back in the 90's was all about glorifying the military industrial complex. Videos of smart bombs finding targets from 20,000 ft. Clean and neat. THAT'S glorifying out military and sanitizing our wars.
watching a soldier's legs get blown up by a drone with 3 dead soldiers around him pick up his rifle and shoot himself in the head isn't really what I would call a show of glory
It absolutely is. A well balanced person finds such an image revolting (especially if they've seen the resulting damage up close) - but there's a significant number of people who watch that and get gratification from it... sometimes in the form of twisted delight from the novelty - sometimes in a form of dominance/power tripping "Look what 'we' can do to those 'terrorists'".
It's fucking sick and I think the fact that Americans will cheer on reels of war while blushing if someone's boob is briefly visible is a deep condemnation of our society.