How is the idea that two evils can fight each other so hard to understand? Not all fights are between a good and a evil.
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Seriously. There are also people on Lemmy that think anyone who has sympathy for civilians also support terrorists.
How absolutely fucking brain-dead do you have to be to not understand that killing civilians is wrong? You can hate the rulers of Israel, Hamas, and Hezbollah while simultaneously hoping that Israeli, Palestinian, and Lebanese civilians don't get hurt.
This isn't rocket science.
It doesn't help that they have the emotional maturity of toddlers
Also the intellectual maturity.
Yeah and they also forget that something evil can have elements or components that arent evil. You wont kill every employee of a company because the ceo is evil. You wont kill every palestanian or israeli because the IDF and hamas are terrorist organizations.
You simply side with the weaker side. Losing is a sign of virtue. /s
That explains why they are fans of Russia as well.
I think it is difficult for children to understand nuance like that. Aren't cartoons always very obvious about who is in the right?
"America bad therefore all adversaries are good and all adversaries' actions are good."
I was blocking most lammy.ml communities I encountered. I finally just blocked all the lammy.ml instances. Its mostly trash there and I will find some place else.
For opensource communities (the one topic their communities are usually quite popular)
That plus hex and lemigrad. It just cleans your feed.