In Reply to: Why are you such a moron douche? posted by Bruinfan4ever on August 19, 2025 at 07:20:19
You gotta maybe cut wood some slack on this because he does have some cognitive/affective issues in terms of his disability in being able to see beyond words.
Because we use the word "peace" a lot and because he is not able to construct context around words (not a political handicap, that's just a developmental disorder on his part) he doesn't quite get what peace really means. He thinks it's the same as absence of war.
Perhaps we are at fault here as well, to some extent, because we take "justice" for granted when we talk about peace. But the concept of justice does not come naturally to the right wing mind. They understand "legal" (which is something they abuse to no end), they understand "law and order" (which they can't stop talking about), but "justice" is always missing in their formulations, because that's not a concept they do well with. They talk about "fairness" a lot (as in, how the wealthy should get a bigger chunk of the wealth and the powerful should accumulate more power, because having been powerful and/or wealthy in the first place means they deserve more of it). But rarely do you ever hear of them speak about "justice".
Peace is not cessation of war. That's "cease fire". Peace is when Russia gets the f**k out of the Ukrainian land they've occupied, including Crimea. Peace is when Israel gets the f**k out of Gaza and the Gaza is rebuilt and is made viable to its native people, which is Palestinians, not Israeli ultra rich looking for some seaside resort where once upon a time some Palestinian family used to live. Peace is when Ukraine and Palestine are made whole again.
The right never quite gets that. Compounding on that and having the cognitive impairments that he does, wood can't even grasp the fact that what we mean by "peace" is not merely a state of quiet where the powerful have grabbed something that belongs to someone else. So he never quite gets why we're afraid of a state of cease fire that might be achieved (which would be good) could still be bad in the overall picture if it means Putin's battleground gains are solidified ... Which to the right wing mind, is only "fair", in the sense I mentioned in passing.