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Combat footage is coming out by the minute. Watching it, I don't understand how Americans can be so fundamentally evil. Watching helicopters gun people on the ground down. What makes you so sick in the head that you would do this? How could you obey these orders and feel nothing as you slaughter innocent people? There isn't even any possible pretext to this invasion. They know what they're doing and still choose to do it. It's utterly incomprehensible.

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Genuinely, I think ~30% of Americans just like it when other people suffer. This might also be true of people in general

Yep. It's the illiberal authoritarians. The people who need hierarchy, for domination and submission. This is why equality is an scary abomination to them.

All societies have such people. But civil societies prevent them from gaining significant power. Failing that, it's going to be expensive.

This society elected a known abuser. Of course this society will be abused. But also because of this society's global power, the world will also be abused.

I'd like to see a study or more information that backs up this ~30% statement - That is alarming!

There was a large scale self-reported study in November of 2024. It was actually way over 30%, if you ignore non-respondents.

Let's see it - Sounds like it would be easy to find?

The hostility toward your comment proves the point: Americans willl only understand when their own cities suffer the same fate

Ironically, that prospect is approaching with each passing year

I regret to inform you that this is not how the cycle of violence works. As the US itself has repeatedly found, inflicting violence on people makes them more supportive of violence, both because you’ve taught them it’s a legitimate tool and because many of them want revenge on you.

I didn't mean violence, i specifically said "fate"

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2013/06/13/us-whites-fa...

US states literally have been built on the motto "come and take it." Americans have been the most common foreign volunteers to die in places like Ukraine and Syria.

Invading America would be like invading Afghanistan. If you wrestle a pig, expect they might even enjoy it. And yes I have fought in a civil war, I know what it's like, even without the advantage of American weapon, so no need to go down the road of me not understanding the implications. It would only embolden us, we wouldn't learn the lesson you're thinking.

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