I don’t know what a better answer for that conflict is.
Goodness, if only there was some kind of distinction between combatants and non-combatants that was generally accepted as valid. I guess we'll never know anything like that, though, we have to target civilians.
Seriously though, did I break your brain? Not having a better solution does not equal simping for murdering civilians.
Let me reiterate:
If you think targeting civilians in ethnic cleansing isn’t doing it wrong because you prefer their side of the conflict, we have nothing to talk about. Your position is no different than the excuses given by the Zionists.
Have a nice day simping for genocide.
Funniest thing I've ever seen, I feel bad for anyone who misses this!
As the wiki article linked notes, most places in Africa didn't have a sustained bronze age. This isn't some 'crude attempt' or anything, it's recognition that technological development is not always linear. Africa came out swinging on iron bloomeries before just about anyone else. The invention and spread of the bloomery in Africa meant that they never went through a sustained period, like Europe or China, where iron was hard to refine and work, but bronze could still be handled by more primitive furnaces.
Bronze is just not worth it, except for decorative purposes and the like, if you can smelt iron.
A while ago, I read a really fascinating article about how a lot of Africa's infrastructure is higher-tech on average (though less extensive currently) than many developed countries', because they've been putting in the 'new' stuff from the start, instead of having to tear up all the old landlines etc and replace it. Like how London was innovative in making gas lights, but because of that, ended up keeping them 'til the 1950s, when everyone else had swapped to electric.
The spread of technology is a fascinating thing!
Explanation: This is in reference to the fact that much of Sub-Saharan Africa lacks a distinctive Bronze Age. Due to the spread of bloomeries, there is a 'leap' from Neo and Chalcolithic societies to Iron Age societies. Intermediate step? Fuck 'em!
Miasma theory. The thinking was, at least partially, that bathing opened up your pores, through which 'bad air' (miasma) could seep in. Funny enough, miasma theory after and before this period was used primarily to support bathing. Goes to show people can twist anything to their purposes.
Not even close.
Back in the late 1970’s to the 1990’s, nobody would have thought that both parties would end up supporting the same genocide, with one being a little less pumped.
Man, I can absolutely cite examples of both parties supporting genocides in that time period.
Well, I won’t! Both parties in the United States supporting a genocide requires voting to solve, but it’s purely abnormal! I’m not wanting a world any better than a world we used to have, one where the United States did not conduct ethnic cleansing!
I... would count myself as an American patriot, but I'm pretty sure the US not committing ethnic cleansing is an extremely recent phenomenon.
We live in a nation with the Internet, fast food wherever you go, products that arrive at your door when ordered, touchscreens, full 3D videogames, V-Tubers, the Moon Landing, nuclear reactors, and the White House lighting up in rainbow colors to support LGBT+ rights–yet when asked to stop a genocide, it’s suddenly too much to ask. I would give up so much of these fleeting pleasures to protect human lives. Should I just become a lotus-eater, and neglect the outside world to “act humane”?
Man, if you want to pour all your time and energy into this cause, unironically, go for it. But part of understanding just how vast and fucked the world is also requires one to accept and understand that we can't fight every battle simultaneously. Hell, most battles aren't even our's to fight. And no amount of martyrdom from an individual can change either of those things. I've been calling the Israeli genocide for what it is for years now. I'm not exactly sitting here telling you to shut up about it. But we have to be realistic both about what we can achieve and about what we will sacrifice to achieve it.
You could sacrifice every waking moment of your life, every meal above the level of gruel, every social connection and personal property unrelated to the cause, all for the sake of a .0001% contribution to ending another country's genocide, but the onus shouldn't be on you to kill yourself to correct every sin in the world. At some point, it's not on you or me as individuals.
Dad's getting older too.
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I think it is a Middle Eastern thing. Something like cultural hospitality and the connection of social/community and economic ties. "Business is personal" is how I heard a friend who was in Iraq say it.