Warlike Parakeet

kohenari:

You know what’s so spectacular about this?

Hint: It’s not how funny it is … because it’s not funny.

It’s the way that it minimizes the terrible human costs of war about which the creator of the website can never say enough. Indeed, the creator of this meme and some of the people who have submitted their own versions of it are first in line (at least amongst the young Tumblr libertarians) when it comes to expressing how much they love peace for its own sake and how every intervention is racist, immoral, and murderous. These bloggers can’t express their revulsion about warfare enough or in strong enough terms (1, 2, 3, 4, we could find dozens of these posts) … until it’s time to make some jokes about people being killed in hopes of achieving some measure of internet fame for themselves.

I know, I know. It’s dark satire intended to hold a mirror up to our society. You’re laughing, sure, but you know deep down that you’re giving us some powerful, powerful stuff that’s really going to make us think twice about the role we’ve all played as citizens of this democracy, about how we’re all lying to ourselves, and about how libertarians are the only ones who really care about the suffering of others.

But you know what it really is? It’s pictures of injured children with jokes attached to it.

(via peaceful-wanderer)