Inside Aleppo

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People do need to put their problems in perspective. Most of the people I know in the US, Europe and Australia who are depressed or anxious are so over inconsequential bullshit. They also have not known real suffering in a way that is common to most people. When people talk about people in America suffering, it's like 'they have to take the bus instead of own a car' or they have to share a two bedroom apartment, instead of having a bunch of unneeded space to fill up with unneeded junk.

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It is big news if you look in the right places.  It's not just Aleppo.  The whole country has been a mountain of misery since the war began.  

And you can blame the American media for lack of coverage, but the fault really lies on the people.  The media just reports what gets them the most views and clicks.  The average American doesn't have an attention span long enough to follow the conflict and is more interested in what some celebrity posted on Facebook or some stupid viral video like Chewbacca mom.

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Also, Duterte's drug war in the Philippines should be bigger news.  The man just admitted to killing people himself when he was a mayor.

Bold is mine.
I read about that too this week - he's utterly despicable. And the extrajudicial killings are continuing with his explicit blessing. The world is upside down.

I think that most people lack perspective on the Philippians. It's easy to condemn Duterte, but then you've never had to live most of your life in fear of drug dealers murdering your family. Everything has more then one side to it, as easy as it is to paint people as 'utterly' one way or another, Duterte is just a man.