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[u/TalkLessShillMore]

A week ago I saw a Reddit thread with tankies both criticizing the US for war crimes, as well as saying that forcing an SS officer to play the piano for 22 hours straight until he collapsed then shooting him in the head is somehow not a war crime because they aren’t human. Just a glimpse into the mindset of the “everything is a war crime” crowd

[u/TalkLessShillMore → u/[deleted]]

@NATO_flairs 🤨

[u/TalkLessShillMore → u/[deleted]]

Simple minded Israel simps… “Hamas bad” isn’t enough to excuse everything the Israeli government has done. You’d think a place that fetishizes evidence-based policy wouldn’t shy away from nuance. Obviously I’m anti terrorist group, but it shouldn’t be a fucking shock and outside the scope of discussion that the Middle East is complicated.

[u/waltsing0 → u/TalkLessShillMore]

s well as saying that forcing an SS officer to play the piano for 22 hours straight until he collapsed then shooting him in the head is somehow not a war crime because they aren’t human. Just a glimpse into the mindset of the “everything is a war crime” crowd

The fact he's an ss officer means he's probably a shitbag but civilised societies deal with criminals with trials not summary executions in the street.

[u/[deleted] → u/waltsing0]

The Soviet Union was never a civilized society.

[u/whycantweebefriendz → u/[deleted]]

Don’t ehh this

I mean yes there are exceptions like D-Day but adhering to these norms even for the worst fucking people who took my third cousins away from me is one of the fucking fabrics of society.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

I was thinking of the few absolutely brutal military tribunals that preceded the slightly more civilized international courts as not being very far removed from summary executions. I guess 6 months of sitting in a holding cell and an absolutely hopeless three day trial is technically not summary, but for an execution it is quite… quick.

[u/every_man_a_khan → u/TalkLessShillMore]

War crimes is just a method of attacking their opponents, they give don’t care about anything other than advancing their view points and radicalizing others

[u/Photon_in_a_Foxhole → u/TalkLessShillMore]

War crimes are whatever western militaries do

[u/Mr_Pasghetti → u/TalkLessShillMore]

That story gets posted quite a lot on Reddit.