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Re: Iraq introduces nightly internet curfew

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Post by mc32 »

ahbyb wrote: post #25
emptyfile wrote: post #8

2019-10-09 https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/10/iraq-protests-latest-... >At least 110 people have been killed and more than 6,000 wounded in Baghdad and in the south, since security forces started cracking down on demonstrators. And the whole world is "outraged" about HK. Here on this thread the other posters are making jokes. If they killed every single person in the country no one would give a shit. Same way no…

What's so odd about us only caring about our own (westerners)?

It’s unwinnable. You go in and take sides, it’s interference, imperialism (you’re doing it for the oil). You stay out and let them work it out then it’s craven indifference.

I mean Iran, Russia and Saudi are all over there. They don’t need another entity adding their two cents.

It’s like AOC, let’s get out of Syria. We leave Syria —how can you leave Syria they’ve been our allies, etc.

In that part, or any part of the world people only become you allies in war when there’s something in it for them. They’re not doing so as a favor. Just like us. When we went into WWII it wasn’t a favor. We knew that not going in would be worse for us.

Re: Iraq introduces nightly internet curfew

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Post by tssva »

emptyfile wrote: post #8

2019-10-09 https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/10/iraq-protests-latest-... >At least 110 people have been killed and more than 6,000 wounded in Baghdad and in the south, since security forces started cracking down on demonstrators. And the whole world is "outraged" about HK. Here on this thread the other posters are making jokes. If they killed every single person in the country no one would give a shit. Same way no…

Most people don't give a shit in the case of Iraq and Yemen because they consider both sides to be equally as bad.

Re: Iraq introduces nightly internet curfew

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Post by sethammons »

VBprogrammer wrote: post #27
ahbyb wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's so odd about us only caring about our own (westerners)?

It's racist as fuck.

Is it? Humans are tribalistic. Family, town, sports team, etc. The further out you go, the less typical people associate "them" as "us." I'm not sure that it is non-westerner's race nor skin color as much as distance, culture, and lack of media exposure. Doesn't make it right, but I'm not sure it is racist.

Re: Iraq introduces nightly internet curfew

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Post by boomboomsubban »

Angostura wrote: post #26
emptyfile wrote: post #8

2019-10-09 https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/10/iraq-protests-latest-... >At least 110 people have been killed and more than 6,000 wounded in Baghdad and in the south, since security forces started cracking down on demonstrators. And the whole world is "outraged" about HK. Here on this thread the other posters are making jokes. If they killed every single person in the country no one would give a shit. Same way no…

I suspect that the increased Hong Kong coverage might have at least partially driven by heightened interest in the UK (ex UK colony) pushing interest in the anglosphere.

Mandatory Iraq was a thing, though ties are closer with Hong Kong.

Re: Iraq introduces nightly internet curfew

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Post by baud147258 »

tssva wrote: post #34
emptyfile wrote: post #8

2019-10-09 https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/10/iraq-protests-latest-... >At least 110 people have been killed and more than 6,000 wounded in Baghdad and in the south, since security forces started cracking down on demonstrators. And the whole world is "outraged" about HK. Here on this thread the other posters are making jokes. If they killed every single person in the country no one would give a shit. Same way no…

Most people don't give a shit in the case of Iraq and Yemen because they consider both sides to be equally as bad.

I don't see how you consider people protesting against "corruption, unemployment and poor public services" to be bad.

Re: Iraq introduces nightly internet curfew

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Post by pjc50 »

mikejb wrote: post #12
emptyfile wrote: post #8

2019-10-09 https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/10/iraq-protests-latest-... >At least 110 people have been killed and more than 6,000 wounded in Baghdad and in the south, since security forces started cracking down on demonstrators. And the whole world is "outraged" about HK. Here on this thread the other posters are making jokes. If they killed every single person in the country no one would give a shit. Same way no…

> Same way no one gives a shit about Yemen. There is an undeniable discrepancy on how we receive and perceive information about individual subjects; Where our attention is directed, and from where it's deviated - what I'm surprised about is how this persists despite a medium like the Internet.

It persists because of the Internet, and the tendency of humans to cluster at the popular spots. News gets increasingly centralised. There is now almost a single "us", with a single focus of news cycle attention at any one time.

Oh, and the propaganda industry.

Re: Iraq introduces nightly internet curfew

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Post by theseadroid »

ahbyb wrote: post #25
emptyfile wrote: post #8

2019-10-09 https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/10/iraq-protests-latest-... >At least 110 people have been killed and more than 6,000 wounded in Baghdad and in the south, since security forces started cracking down on demonstrators. And the whole world is "outraged" about HK. Here on this thread the other posters are making jokes. If they killed every single person in the country no one would give a shit. Same way no…

What's so odd about us only caring about our own (westerners)?

at least when you care only because of your own interests, you lose the moral high ground.
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