Greeba

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

Realizing that 7 "far-right" candidates have won in Latin America since USAID was defunded

[Rod M ✞ ⚣ 🇦🇷🇻🇦 @RodriM30024]

"La esclavitud sexu4l infantil está bien si lo hacen los musulmanes" 💀💀💀

[Holly Grayle @HollyGrayle]

I'm just not sure that I really have the bandwidth to care anymore. For my entire life, I've been fed the idea that if we provide food, medicine, money, and infrastructure to Africans, then they will eventually find their way out of their miserable situation. But they haven't and in all likelihood, they never will. In fact, everything we do to help them just seems to make it even worse.

No one - absolutely no one - takes pleasure in seeing children starve. But the constant violence and war and killing and raping and starving and poverty and illness...it's just neverending. I'm at the point where I just think we need to let nature take its course and let their population naturally reduce to a level they can independently sustain.

We can't fix these people, and we're going to have to just accept that killing each other is just how they go about their lives.

[AJ Inapi (Allan) @aj_inapi]

Let me explain something to my audience in the West.

Here in Papua New Guinea, up in the Highlands, tribal fights are a way of life.

When two tribes go at it for generations, the businessmen and politicians supply the weapons and ammunition. The foot “soldiers” are poor villagers who were born and raised in an environment where conflict has always been a normal part of life.

You will never understand how their brains work unless you’ve seen it up close.

These people adore their elites and are willing to die for them at ANY cost, while the elites are living luxurious lives in the capital city. Their kids are overseas studying or living there with ZERO negative impact from the conflict.

BUT to the villagers, the tribal fight is a worthy cause, and if they lose, they believe the other tribe will wipe them out.

They rarely make peace. And if they ever do, sooner or later they fall back into the same cycle over and over again. It's like you can't make peace with them. However, the "leaders" are key in making peace in these situations.

They burn down schools, hospitals, bridges, and government institutions in the area. They destroy their own future just to hurt the other side.

Even sane Papua New Guineans cannot wrap their heads around this level of stupidity, but we understand the environment they grew up in. These people are brutal. They will not hesitate to take a life in the most heinous way possible and then go on with their lives and not be held accountable.

Now over the last few years, news has come out that the leaders of groups like Hamas, IRGC, and Hezbollah live in the comforts of the modern world. Their kids and families are in the West living luxurious lives, while the foot soldiers are dying in Gaza, Iran, Lebanon, Syria, and elsewhere.

This is NORMAL to them.

These are religious fanatics on top of the culture they live in. They are willing to die for their so-called leaders. They are willing to take thousands of lives just to further the cause.

The Western soldier comes back home broken because they’ve had to do things they were not raised to do. They suffer serious PTSD because of the horrors they have witnessed. To them, they have seen very inhuman atrocities.

But to many fighters in parts of the Middle East and other conflict regions, that is the normal way of life.

The Western soldier is trained.
They fight within the constraints of international laws.
They are accountable.

To terrorists and militant groups, anything goes.

In the Western world, even half the country would be against war. There are protests, politics, media debates, elections.

In many conflict regions, people are raised from childhood to accept war, martyrdom, revenge, and tribal or religious loyalty as part of life.

This is the difference between the West and much of the developing world. It is very different from what you read and watch on the internet. Most of the time, you cannot understand why these people think and operate the way they do, because you are living in a completely different reality.

And that is the part many people in the West do not understand when they talk about geopolitics, war, and foreign policy like it’s a movie or a university debate.

For many parts of the world, this is not theory.
This is not politics.
This is not X.

This is just life.

[Jason Pargin, author of John Dies at the End, etc @JasonKPargin]

Tear running down my face

[Froggenþuſiaſt @Froggenthusias1]

Minecraft proves that abolishing child labour was a mistake. The children yearn for the mines.

[Dake @DakeRapper]

i’m so excited for walmart in the metaverse !

[Greeba @_Greebler]

@Ethan_Cale Ahhh a true philosopher of our times

[Greeba @_Greebler]

@RuburaAtatufon Facts bro

[Greeba @_Greebler]

@Ethan_Cale You know it

[Greeba @_Greebler]

@mppmd91 @KrogerProbs

[Greeba @_Greebler]

@Hofffy_ @Ethan_Cale @Twk_123 That’s it I’m taking away your booze

[SavageRealm @SavRealm]

gn

[Greeba @_Greebler]

@RuburaAtatufon @0marssyed 😭

[Bill 🍌 @bananabillll]

Destroyer droids when they see a Jedi

[Greeba @_Greebler]

@matt_poland13 @mppmd91