Vimana
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Einherjar86
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Can I just say that I understand regarding this sort of thing with disgust, but that I don't find it all that amusing? These tribes warring in Kenya seem doomed to a fate of degeneration and strife at their own hands (I'm not going to pretend to be very informed about what's going on over there), but I don't really think there's anything all that funny about it. It's fucking disturbing that there are human beings living like this. What's funny about dudes hacking some guy up with machetes? What a fucking miserable existence these people have, and I'm not trying to be some bleeding heart but I just can't understand laughing at it.
Vimana
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The ethnic hatreds in Africa weren't really that bad until after the Europeans came. They purposely divided up territories so tribes would not have their own majority and would stay divided and distrusting of each other so there wouldn't be any revolt. [/captain obvious]
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It's easy to be depersonalized on the internet and act like suffering/strife is hilarious, but not so much once you make friends and have to have a real existence with other people. It's just the nature of the internet to bring out the worst in people via anonymity.
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Yeah, I know. I've just never been one to cop to that sort of typical lazy-minded online behavior. I've always found that deplorable, really. Acting in some way that I wouldn't in my "RL" is being dishonest with myself, regardless of whatever anonymity I have. I think with my own conscience, not the internet hive mind.
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Obviously the suffering and warfare in Africa is terrible, and if someone just posted pictures of people killing each other with machetes that would be awful. But stuff like the picture of the guy with the life jacket is just funny because it's absurd. I'm not laughing at the violence, I'm laughing at the absurdity. That's pretty much the only one I laughed at, though.
Krigloch the Furious
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haha, that fucking sucks.
I never go to Decatur, so I dont know about it
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If we cared so much, wouldn't we be more involved in helping these people and start sacrificing our comfortable middle class-lives? I don't know, I find it absurd that we arrange Live Aid's or whatever once a year to lighten up our guilty conscience, and then spend the rest of the year buying flat screen tvs and adding terraces to our houses, it's like we "care" but just as long as it doesn't require our effort. Madonna adopts a black kid and plays a song at a charity concert, that's good PC-points for her before she goes to sleep in one of her mansions, which worth could feed 10 starving families for an entire year. Either people should start helping for real, or they should just admit that they feel so distanced from it that they don't care. What do you guys think?
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But still you can afford a computer and an internet connection for example, which you don't really need at all to survive, if you don't use them in your job of course. Things like that makes you middle class compared to most of the world. I'm not preaching by the way, I'm on the don't care-side. I'm just tired of all these hypocrite PC-people.
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Yeah, I went to a public high school for 2 years in Chicago and it was just ridiculous at times.
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Everyone is a hypocrite, definitely. I think it's bad that people are dying, but I'd have to say that I don't particularly care, in that I don't think about it unless someone brings it up and I don't do anything to help. I don't feel any obligation to help, either, in part because it seems unlikely that I could help in any meaningful way. Also, Madonna's mansion would feed a hell of a lot more than 10 families.
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