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[–] 156 points 1 year ago (12 children)

God it fucking burns him so bad that Obama got one and he didn't.

Obama didn't even deserve a peace prize, the guy did more drone strikes than Bush, but just for the fact that it upsets Trump so much I say they should give him another one.

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  • [+] 49 points 1 year ago (1 child)
  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    At the time, they were still incredibly expensive and unreliable.

    I think that's a feature, more money for Lockmart and Raytheon, line go up.

    as long as it reduces the number of Americans returning home in boxes

    As long as it appears like they do. I don't think they give a fuck about their soldiers, otherwise they wouldn't have sent them to Asia to die.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    My one single satisfaction that I take from Turnip is despite having everything including some otherworldly luck - he will never be satisfied or appreciate any of it. What a sad and pathetic life and the only kind of life a sad fuck like him deserves.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    the guy did more drone strikes than Bush

    Explain why drones are any worse than any other kind of weapon. The people who get blown up are just as dead regardless.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    Drones remove a human being from the chain, making it easier to kill more people more often because it's less real

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    This is anecdotal, but 22 years ago I attended an event where the US Air Force proudly played a video of a Predator drone strike. I was a teenager who avidly gamed, and felt horror at what I was forced to witness because I knew these were real people who were dying agonizing deaths

    To this day I still feel the same emotions when I think of it, and I can't listen to Drowning Pool's "Bodies" because that's the song they played to accompany the footage

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Yeah I'm not sure this is true, though I imagine it's only a matter of time. Anecdotally, but I know a guy who definitely has PTSD from, among other things, watching onscreen as such an automated weapon of war homed in on two combatants fleeing, closing in until finally one of them, looking over his shoulder directly at the camera, gave up and stopped running immediately before death.

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