Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Excellent post. It's been raised before, but always quickly drowned out by mob rule strawman arguments. Not bothered discussing it anymore on here to be honest.

No one said it’s funny.

Some just don’t feel the way you do about it.

Accept that and we all move on.

Im with pixelburp in trying not to like such videos, but this one is pretty hard not to.

I mean if nothing else, in terms of clarity and visual impact....if there is a best war clip...just hypothetically, it would be an all timer.

Bad.

Its very bad. Its definitely not funny. Shame on me.

He could be alright.

And not only that, if China attacks Taiwan (as is looking more and more likely) then unless the US does a runner on its agreement to help Taiwan defend itself against China, you will have Russians killing Americans because Russia will side with China against their common enemy. But neither will that be anything new, Russia has been attacking the US (and EU, UK) for years now, and killing or attempting to kill US service men worldwide either directly or indirectly. A weakened or destroyed Russian military is of benefit to everyone, but especially the US. If they don't support Ukraine now, they will face them in the future, but at far greater costs in terms of money and lives.

Got to keep in mind when watching such videos that at least some part of russias forces is/was composed of putins rivals.

Protestors and inmates. Among the inmates are psychos and other problematic individuals, sure, but also some of them will have resorted to criminality due to Russian society having its wealth vaccumed up the mafia pyramid which putin and his goons are sat atop. So indirect victims of putin in a sense.

Political rivals, protestors and the coerced underclass no hopers. Are somewhere in those ranks dying. Cant be sure if youre watching one or not.

There's a big difference between BBC or whoever showing pictures of war to emphasize how horrific it is and someone on boards with a hard-on screaming "look at this one lads, watch him get turned into jelly erm no i mean mince meat hahaha".

The first serves an informative purpose, the second shows a pathological pleasure in demonizing another group and watching them suffer and a total absence of normal human sensitivity

There are a few caveats concerning these videos of killed Russians.

1. It is a win for Ukraine and most people on this thread want Ukraine to win. Unfortunately that means killing lots of Russians. Dead Russians = winning. Sad but true.
2. Russia's war crimes has stirred up great anger and even a desire for vengeance. There is a limit to what people will tolerate.

None of this justifies jubilation at their deaths but one has to look at this in context. And the context is Russian brutality and mass murder. Murder that has been going on since Russia came into existence. People talk about the evil west and there is a case to answer here but the difference between the west and Russia is that the general populace in the west have not been poisoned by their leader's evil while many Russians have soaked up the cruelty of their leadership. On Russian national tv they openly talk about how they should be committing atrocities against their enemies and many Russians applaud it. They have become depraved by a century of depraved leadership. A lot more could be said about this but it shows why many people say a good Russian is a dead Russian. I'm speaking very loosely here but I can't cover every exception in one post. At any rate, I'm not justifying or condemning the posting of such videos.

Yes, but isn't it more than voyeurism? My point is that there is a whole range of emotions here. This war has stirred up great outrage in people. When I see the Russians getting blasted like this I often wonder if they are the Orcs that cut genitals off with a boxcutter or some poor wretch who was just thrown into the war as cannon fodder. I can't tell so I'm conflicted about how I feel about it. But the more Russians commit war crimes the more people are inclined to see them as Orcs.

But to address your main point - that such videos have a bad effect on the psyche and on society - I'm afraid you are right. Ultimately it is bad. The internet is every bit as bad for the world as television was. We'd be far better off if we had none of them.

@pixelburp "God knows I grew up with plenty of pearl-clutching articles about how video games were corrupting our youth, the violence therein somehow a seed that'd cause the downfall of society. It never happened of course"

But it has! Civilization has all but morally and spiritually collapsed. We still have transport, work and a tax system etc, but these are only the physical facade of civilization. Inwardly the world is becoming spiritually impoverished.