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   myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Sunday, 09-Aug-2026 23:43:07 JST myrmepropagandist

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   @mdhughes

   People forget. When I'm old will I watch young people going to war and old people calling those who dare to say how it is pointless and immoral cowards?

   We should talk more about all of those lives that were lost. We should never shut up about it.

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     James Widman (jameswidman@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 09-Aug-2026 23:43:06 JST James Widman

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     @futurebird @mdhughes it couldn't hurt to have more popular fiction where characters that people love die in wars for reasons that are 100% realistic (and by "realistic", i mean stupid, completely preventable, etc)

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     James Widman (jameswidman@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 09-Aug-2026 23:43:22 JST James Widman

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     @futurebird @mdhughes more generally, i think probably a lot of americans' attitudes about violence stems from the fact that violence in popular fiction is almost always depicted as pretty much consequence-free: the heroes get a happy ending; or they take some losses but the ending doesn't actually show them in any of the stages of loss; nobody has a permanent medical condition; real-life trauma surgeons were not consulted on wounds; dead people come back to life; etc