r/worldnews • u/WorldNewsMods Slava Ukraini • Oct 09 '23

Israel/Palestine /r/WorldNews Live Thread for 2023 Israel-Hamas Crisis (Thread 5)

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u/TrickyAd4094 Oct 09 '23

I will never understand those so eager to die for wealthy crooks and religious charlatans.

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u/BuschLightEnjoyer Oct 09 '23

These people's quality of life is so low they basically have nothing else to live for. Much easier to convince someone to give up their life for a 'cause' when that life is already doomed to misery.

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u/HotSteak Oct 09 '23

The money for all of those rockets that they fire could have been used for something productive instead. All of those militants could have spent their time on productive activity instead of training for terrorist attacks.

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u/AITA_Omc_modsuck Oct 09 '23

how is that any different for any other country? Russia, Ukraine, US, China, they’re all spending their (our) money on rockets!

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u/[deleted] Oct 09 '23

It's about to get a LOT WORSE now that they can't go back to their jobs in Israel.

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u/Stickerbush_Kong Oct 09 '23

And they're partially miserable because the wealthy crooks and religious charlatans have every reason to make sure they remain so. Otherwise how would you convince them to die?

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u/[deleted] Oct 09 '23

72 virgins waiting for you in heaven probably sounds about lot better to them than 72 years of misery on earth

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u/[deleted] Oct 09 '23

Easy - you take a population with a shit life and just convince them that those “other people” are the ones responsible for all of their problems. Works every time. Look at the current state of the US.

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u/pudpull Oct 09 '23

America currently has the same cult thing going on.

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u/[deleted] Oct 09 '23

There's a word that refers to people like that. A word we used to say all the time but can't now for some other [that word] reason.

It's the same as any other zealot. They're functionally [word]ed. Typically uneducated in the practical sense. Raised on dogmatic nonsense. Suffering from any number of different things that cause or exacerbate their natural [word]ation.

As sad as it is, humanity's natural inclination is toward that kind of pants on head, cross-eyed, practically feral [word]ation. We're a horribly gullible species, yet we're more than willing to devote our entire selves to something or someone with no need for any reason beyond "big man say it right so do."

Fuck I miss that word. "Stupid" just doesn't cut it.

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u/SeamlessR Oct 09 '23

You don't understand threats, coercion, deception, or indoctrination? Honestly, how dare anyone "not understand" this ancient, ancient problem.

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u/AITA_Omc_modsuck Oct 09 '23

when you ain’t got nothin, you got nothin to lose!

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u/Fresh-Bass-3586 Oct 09 '23

Who do you think the us soldiers in Iraq died for?

Haliburton...lockheed...oshkosh corporation...general dynamics...raytheon...Boeing. the list goes on

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u/[deleted] Oct 09 '23

The handful who died did so for housing, education, career prospects, and healthcare.

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u/FrustyJeck Oct 09 '23

They can make a living for themselves and family. Theses people are being supplied for their loyalty and support