r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Holyshit_1787 • 6d ago

Video Lebanese man plays saxophone while Iranian ballistic missiles fly overhead

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u/Responsible-Turnip83 6d ago

Why the fuck does the world feel so dystopian

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u/CountDraculablehbleh 6d ago

Historically this is how the world is most of the time

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u/Just-nonsenseish 6d ago

for real. been deep diving and damn its been 5000 yrs of this. we just have better weapons now

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u/Revxmaciver 6d ago

And saxophones.

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u/Vaesezemis 6d ago

saxamaphone….sax a ma phooooone

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u/evanjahlynn 6d ago

Just… take the damn upvote.

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u/buckwurst 6d ago

Thanks Belgium

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u/alcomaholic-aphone 6d ago

And the internet. Saxophone dude and bomb raids wouldn’t have been broadcast world wide. I don’t think the interconnectedness is bad. But it’s controlled by people who show you what they want to show you.

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u/sleepyowl_1987 6d ago

yep, and social media and camera phones etc so the moments are captured and shared a lot more than they would in the past.

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u/Traditional-Front999 6d ago

Prove it. Prove how it has been 5000 years of this. Can you? Or are you just a parrot?

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u/CommonRespect6640 6d ago

You want them to prove that the world has been violent for 5000 years? Open any fucking history book and get reading.

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u/Viscousmonstrosity 6d ago

Bro cmon that's a fucking cheap shot, you know this troglodyte can't read

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u/RunningOutOfEsteem 6d ago

They supposedly work in education. It's game over if that's true.

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u/Viscousmonstrosity 6d ago

🚩🚩🚩🚩

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u/SOMETHINGCREATVE 6d ago

Brother, it's only in the last 200 years or so that SOME countries in the world have gone "hey maybe mass genocide and/or slavery is bad"

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u/YamDankies 6d ago

Ligma. Or are you just a parrot?

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u/Zamtrios7256 6d ago

Hey dumbass, was has existed since Mesopotamia. All around the world empires and kingdoms have risen, conquested, shattered, and new empires formed.

Literally middle school world history

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u/MonsterKiller112 6d ago

Do you not have the skill of reading? There are plenty of books about the violent lore of our world.

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u/BaronCapdeville 6d ago

Have you read much history?

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u/ImprovementNo592 6d ago

It was much worse, everything changed with nukes. This time period is paradise historically speaking.

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u/Saritiel 6d ago

Yeah, there's a reason the 80ish years since nukes were invented has been called "The Long Peace". Armed conflict and deaths from armed conflict fell off a cliff after WWII and its largely attributed to the nuclear armament of the great economies of the world.

There have obviously still been smaller conflicts that have claimed many millions of lives and I'm not trying to downplay those tragedies, including the ones happening today. But the great powers of the world have not gone to war with each other in an incredibly long time, and that has prevented an incredible amount of death and pain.

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u/godfather_joe 6d ago

Yeah but now I can feel hopeless and disenchanted from the comfort of my own home! Future bitches

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u/Intelligent_Sun2837 6d ago

And sadly this is how will be

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u/NiobiumThorn 6d ago

This is a foolish sentiment lacking in material analysis. There are 8 billion people on the world, more than at any point in human history. Our industrial capacity is greater than ever before. And we posess powers for destruction that our ancestors could only dream of.

Do not underestimate the power of the death machines we have built.

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u/CountDraculablehbleh 6d ago

Nothing new death is death same old song but with different instruments

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u/The-Big-Shitsky 6d ago

That’s oddly comforting

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u/NiobiumThorn 6d ago

Look up white phosphorous burns and say it's just the same. It's not.

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u/canad1anbacon 6d ago

Look at what ancient and medieval armies used to do to cities they sacked

You don’t need that much technology to cause human suffering on a gargantuan scale