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I would simply stop being settlers committing a genocide but ya know.
Yah know you could just spot participating in a genocide, that'd probably do wonders for your mental health 
Shoot and cry
Frag yourself and frag everyone around you
Does this mean some shoot-and-cry war movie treat in a decade or two, or a P R E S T I G E T V treatment to blur the morality of it all and give a lot of quips to make the atrocity enjoyers seem relatable?
Didn't they?I find it hard to get upset during the tank-introduction scene in "All Quiet On The Western Front" because we all know what happened to a hell of a lot of German soldiers who survived WW1.
Death to the Freikorps
Boo fucking hoo.
They’re just gonna call in blackwater next month.
Is this cause they are getting their shit rocked, or is it that they are human and are traumatized from following orders? I dunno which would be the better answer. I’m just glad Israel is falling apart
The latter, probably. People fundamentally do not handle horror and atrocity well, no matter how eagerly they dive into it or how loudly they beat their chest and bay for blood. It's something inherently corrosive and destructive that can't just be warded off by being a bloodthirsty fascist genocidaire.
I struggle to articulate how absurd and evil it is, that they're eagerly destroying themselves just to spill more blood, just to slaughter and spread terror and death and misery for the sake of monstrous fascist ideals. Self-interested evil is horrible enough, but they're beyond even that, it's just death and horror for the sake of death and horror and fascist supremacy. All they have to do is not fucking do that, it's in their best interests to not fucking do that, but their twisted fascist ideology demands they sacrifice themselves for the sake of genocide.
Maybe this is a bit irrelevant, but do you ever think of the Red Army seeing the absolutely vile atrocities the Nazis were doing, and how they found the will to keep going to stop them at all costs? I wonder if it's more demoralizing than not, I can only imagine that finding death camps with piles of childrens' clothing with their owners nowhere to be found has to really make you feel like any semblance of good in the world you're fighting for has already been lost.
And I guess it's just crazy that the Zionists are fighting to create that world, to create a world where the most defenseless are thrown to the mass graves and forgotten. How have they found the will to make it this far? How can fascist ideology push people to do as much harm as they've already done without putting a bullet through their CO's skull and then their own? Isn't it too much after you kill the second or third kid?
Isn't it too much after you kill the second or third kid?
For the last 80 years they've been told that the people they're killing aren't human beings. At a point they check out and are okay with it.
It's the first one. It's not that they see the people they're fighting as human, it's that they keep getting washed and burned out.
It's not that they see the people they're fighting as human
I'm saying that's not a shield against it. Genocidaires dehumanize their victims and they still get fucked up by their own actions and what they're taking part in. It's not about morals or consciences or anything like that, it's just people not handling that sort of violence and horror well at a fundamental level. That's not to say "oh it makes them sad, it makes them unhappy, it makes them regretful" because it can just as easily make them worse and more violent and unstable, it's just to say it's something that actively attacks and corrodes their own humanity. They can psych themselves up and dehumanize their victims and beat their chest as loud as they want, as loud as they need to to push themselves to actually do it, but they're still going to be broken by it in some way.
This isn't something original to Israel, obviously, though that provides a very clear and visible example of a population trying to keep themselves whipped into a bloodthirsty frenzy and breaking at the seams because of it. I know it happened to the Nazis too, and that there's research on that and how Nazi ideology tried to recuperate that self-destruction through violence by lionizing it and making it a pillar of their ideology. I'd assume it's just a universal phenomenon, that such violence just kind of does that to people regardless of how they try to psych themselves up and cope with it.
I mean some people that work at abattoirs have PTSD, it's not unique to seeing humans slaughtered.
I think both things are true. The same way someone who works in the business of slaughtering barn animals won't go vegan or even vegetarian, even if they have PTSD.
It's got almost nothing to do with "seeing too much slaughter" in the case of the iof. It's actually laughable (and sad) that some people on this site really think those people are somehow getting tired and traumatized by the genocide.
The iof literally say why they're feeling this way, it's quoted in the article
"They return to the same buildings that they cleaned, each time trapping them anew. They have been to Al-Zaytoun neighborhood three times already. They understand that it is futile and pointless.”
They feel that they're doing meaningless busy work that's also getting them killed. Mind you, if they thought their slaughter was actually doing something they'll happily keep it up so long as they're not getting fucking washed by resistance fighters.
Definitely the first, the West doesn't want to die for treats
It's absolutely the first one. When's the last time you've heard a conquistador or a member of the 7th Cavalry get PTSD from butchering the Indigenous? But once the colonizers start getting their ass handed to them by the colonized is when the crocodile tears and whining about PTSD start coming out.
Good.
They should crawl into a hole and die. 
We need those rookie numbers of suicides due to depression to start increasing.
They can stop, leave Palestine and go home at any moment. Yet they choose to stay and do more genocide, more war crimes, more apartheid. All while whining over how they are the real victims. I couldn't have less sympathy for these monsters, I hope the terror of their actions will eat them up until there's nothing left for them to do but to beg for death.
Hope the resistance helps them to get rid of that mental damage by adding physical damage.
Real sicko shit coming from me. I got PTSD from being a colonizer in Iraq; I deserved worse and so do these fucking demons. God willing, their sins will find them and stop them one way or another.
Bibi and US media: Isreal military infested with antisemitic Jews! Don't think about it too hard, just send more weapons!
Now imagine how the citizens of countries you're attack are.
'Everyone not dead or injured is mentally damaged'
Is that even different from usual?
They were already mentally damaged by the zio brainwashing that led them to this point. Good to see their programming is shattering their psyches as it crashes up against reality. It’d be real sad if they all unalived!
Boy what a great time to have morale issues after you piss off all your neighbors.
God I wish the tank in that picture would fire
They can not drop bombs and snipe kids if their loser ground forces all "burnt out" but zionists aren't normal so I hope those PTSD are going well for them.
I went to Kasol a village in northern India where all the hashish is produced it was full of Israelis with PTSD smoking their brains away. It was pretty sad.
Hopefully them and their scab shrinks commit [redacted]
Just a side note whilst I'm scrolling past again
motherfucker leaning solemnly over the barrel of tank cannon? lmao
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