I remember being a kid and wondering why certain groups like these are supposed to be saved by us but we didn't care as much about terrorism or genocide in Africa like Rwanda
We are allowed to care about Kurdish people because it's useful for the white nazi class.
That's actually really the reason Americans care about Rwanda as well, I think. Kagame is their imperial ally in the region, the narrative of him ending the Rwandan genocide is useful for that. Rwanda is also used to sell the idea of interventionism, they always like to pretend everything could have been solved easily with more western involvement (as if they were just passive observers and have no other responsibility for the genocide). When you look at how it's discussed in the west IMO it becomes clear that for western governments it's really just a political tool to justify imperialism and no one actually cares about it.
“I hear you’re interested in genocide,” the American said. “Do you know what genocide is?” I asked him to tell me. “A cheese sandwich.” he said. “Write it down. Genocide is a cheese sandwich.” I asked him how he figured that. “What does anyone care about a cheese sandwich?” he said. “Genocide, genocide, genocide. Cheese sandwich, cheese sandwich, cheese sandwich. Who gives a shit? Crimes against humanity? Where’s humanity? Who’s humanity? You? Me? Did you see a crime commited against you? Hey, just a million Rwandans. Did you ever hear about the Genocide Convention?” I said I had. “That convention,” the American at the bar said, “makes a nice wrapping for a cheese sandwich.”
Philip Gourevitch, an American journalist, recounting a conversation at a bar with an American intelligence officer.
Within the Sentinelese islands, ... there are villages that have never seen the outside world, and they have a villager's understanding of what goes on in the rest of the world; undeniably they have beliefs about the rest of the world that a lot of folks like us might think are silly.
Whatever beliefs they have about the rest of the world lead them to shoot missionaries with arrows, so they can't be too far from the truth.
They like to refer to Lenin's testament to say he didn't want Stalin to lead the party.
Stalin is too crude, and this defect which is entirely acceptable in our milieu and in relationships among us as communists, becomes unacceptable in the position of General Secretary. I therefore propose to comrades that they should devise a means of removing him from this job and should appoint to this job someone else who is distinguished from comrade Stalin in all other respects only by the single superior aspect that he should be more tolerant, more polite and more attentive towards comrades, less capricious, etc.
"Stalin's only flaw as a leader is that he's too mean, so the ideal person would be exactly the same as him but nicer" isn't exactly a scathing judgement of Stalin, lol.
All this aside, the argument being framed this way in the first place is strange. Why do they place so much weight on the personal relationship between these two men?
Dozens of tenants shared gripes about unsafe conditions, landlord abuses, evictions and “hidden” fees — what you’d expect from a standard constituent-services night, not any grand exposé as the “New Yorkers vs Bad Landlords” billing promised.
Many of those testifying presented gripes that can get resolved in housing court; the rest simply couldn’t afford their rent — which isn’t especially the landlord’s fault.
"Actually the horrors are normalized so you can't blame me for committing them." "I don't care, I'm going to stab you now."
A few astroturfed protests and then a few bombs to help "liberal reformers" and "moderate rebels".
The bombs humiliate the liberal reformers and prove their enemies right, though. Everyone in Iran knows what America wants to do to them. Not even the most childish comprador could ignore this now.
Thanks! I was wrong, no link added to the post body because the original post had no body. Also, I wrote the following alt text for the image, you can add it to your post if you want (in the "alt text" field when you edit the post). It's for screen readers and other accessibility tools.
An image with an anime-style fem-presenting profile captioned "your son" and a soldier profile captioned "my son" followed by an image with a happy looking fem-presenting anime character captioned "my son" next to a coffin draped in an American flag captioned "your son".
The "reddit-logo emoji makes everyone on this site call reddit stormfront" effect claims another victim.