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   joesabin (joesabin@mastodon.world)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Oct-2023 00:44:39 JST joesabin

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   • Thomas 🔭🕹️
   • Thomas Sobieck 🐘

   @Sobieck @thomasfuchs

   So what do you say or do to make a difference? To have an impact? What can be said that won't be incendiary?

   In my youth, we had over 500,000 troops in Vietnam. As I got older I watched friends get sucked into that endless revolving door of a war. We protested we waited our turn to go and have our lives ruined. I got lucky, unlike some of my friends. Almost no one came back intact.

   We have to stop fighting useless battles. That's the answer.

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     Thomas Sobieck 🐘 (sobieck@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Oct-2023 00:44:40 JST Thomas Sobieck 🐘

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     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs @joesabin It isn’t that hard. Killing civilians is bad. Doesn’t matter the side. Israelis and Palestinians are just two sets of people like you are me.

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     joesabin (joesabin@mastodon.world)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Oct-2023 00:44:42 JST joesabin

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs Honestly, I wouldn't even know how to respond to the mess in the Middle East right now. The situation in Ukraine, and watching so many people's lives being upended with no way for me to have one tiny bit of say that will make a damn bit of difference. It's frustrating. I'm in my late-60s and have watched too many wars for my whole life. None in my lifetime has yielded anything of value.