Posts by Che Tibby
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(Isn't Sacha a boy?)
i consider myself an equal opportunity sexist.
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know my place, guv
good girl. now go take care of the children and cook me some dinner.
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Buy your own food and cookware, comrade..
nooo... you'll need to subcontract the cooking to someone who owns the pots. make sure you flick the bits you aren't intending to eat on to the city mission.
trickle-down in action. the poor eat sausages after all, we all know which bits are in there.
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let that magical, wonderful beanstalk grow. apparently the castle is full of frolicking golden ponies.
only 16% of macroeconomics are wrong, after all.
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ponies :(
i was expecting ponies.
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it is a great film, and almost the only one i've seen all year.
personally i'd call it once were warriors without all the freaking angst. it really is worth seeing on the big screen.
and... it was a tiny bit like growing up in the mount. being called an egg rang pretty true.
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I said the primary moral responsibility for this massacre lies with the pilot, because he pulled the trigger.
yeah, this is the nazi-hunter approach as well. you blame the individual because he has the choice to kill or not to kill.
this is inaccurate though. like simon says, the hierarchy moves responsibility for action to the individual, but... in every war since time immemorial the young man has reacted the same way, they do the killing then spend the rest of their life in regret.
it's why i put the blame on the machine, and those who put the war machine near civilians. a young man will *always* kill indiscriminately. they *like* it. but keep their permissive framework away, and no killing.
the blame for every death in iraq is actually cheney, because he wanted the machine to go there.
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keith, i said waaay back on page two:
what this and other videos have given us is a small glimpse into what must be a widespread pattern of indiscriminate killing by US forces
and that this type of murder of civilians is commonplace in all war zones.
the more i think about it (since recovering from my original righteous anger), the more i think the young guys in that apache aren't to 'blame'. they bear responsibility for their actions, and if history is any measure they will be paid back in spades once the brutality of their actions weights in. the buffer separating them from their humanity will dissolve, and then... who knows. vietnam should be our guide there.
blaming them does nothing. it just moves the onus from the machine in which they operate to an individual who is in fact supported in their actions whether they make mistakes or not. in other words, these guys are able to do this because there is no immediate consequence to their actions (and we can have a bigger conversation about killing civilians when you actually have to bathe in their blood, but srebrenica undermines that, as falluja will in the fullness of time).
the real culprit is the cabal who moved this machine into iraq in the first place, and who continue to justify the slaughter with trite aphorisms about freedom.
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apropos.
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"this clipping from the paper shows us young and strong and clean.
And there's me in me slouch hat,
me SLR and greens.
god help me.
i was only nineteen."