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Police Drones in Haiti Have Killed More Than 1,000 People (futurism.com)
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[–] 1 point 7 months ago

That's not boring at all. That's a full blown what if $superhero really started to put the pressure on all crime episode.

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    [–] 54 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    Police in Haiti has killed more than 1000 people with drones. What is this bullshit avoiding attribution to actually responsible people?

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  • [–] 15 points 7 months ago*

    Well, its called burying the lede:

    (End of the article)

    Since August of 2025, Blackwater founder and prominent Donald Trump donor Erik Prince has helped deploy hundreds of private mercenaries to Haiti, Al Jazeera has reported. In addition to supplying personnel, Prince has acted as a key advisor to the drone assassination task force responsible for the devastation, which has drawn condemnations from human rights groups for suspected violations of international law.

    Blackwater is a private military company responsible for the Nisour Square Massacre in Iraq, a shooting which left 17 civilians dead. (The four contractors responsible were pardoned by Trump during his first stint in the Oval Office.)

    Evidently, Prince is now exporting that same carnage to Haiti — this time with drones — furthering a history of heavy-handed US meddling in the affairs of the beleaguered Caribbean nation.

    Surprise!

    Somehow, Blackwater returned.

    But uh yeah burying the lede is what you do when you're a coward, journalist style.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    If you're gonna get all bent out of shape about it then why attribute to police when they don't have volition in the matter: "Haiti has killed more than 1000 people with police drones"

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    • [–] 17 points 7 months ago

    This fucking future sucks.

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    [–] 16 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Erik Prince is directly behind this shit

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    • [–] -1 points 7 months ago

    Science and tech somewhat help the new modern world but it also gives us lots of new, cool ways to kill!

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago (12 children)

    You could also be a gang member and murderer. Never can be sure. So I guess a police drone should be on its way to you?

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago (10 children)

    indeed, very little context and information but you still felt the need to say that the children that were killed were probably gang members and murderers. A bit weird if you ask me, but you do you.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (8 children)

    Yeah I know. That's why I said that its possible that you are also a gang member and should be droned. I assume you don't have a problem with that.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Just asking questions, eh?

    You might be innocently asking, but be aware that what you did is a common rhetorical technique that right-wing propagandists use to stop people from caring about violence against the innocent.

    If you had brought up the possibility that the police were, say, killing children for money with their drones, or their drones were being hacked by criminal gangs, or that US mercenary groups - like the one run by Erik Prince - are actually flying them, then you may not have mistakenly furthered the goals of empire.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    You were told that 17 children were killed by drones and dismissed that by saying "they could have been gang members." That implies that you are okay with those children being killed by the drones, because they could have been gang members.

    I'm just pointing out how absurd it is to say that because anyone anywhere could be a criminal, that doesn't mean they should be killed by a drone.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    That is correct, being children doesn't make them innocent by default, Being human makes them innocent by default.

    You need to prove they are criminals before you start punishments.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    I don't think anybody agrees there's a context where police killing children with drones is justified.

    I don't think anybody should agree with police killing children in any context.

    I don't think any reaaonable person, even those who agree there are situations where lethal force by the police is justified, would agree a drone strike is the right way to dispense justice.

    But seagulls have to seagull I guess, so go ahead with your dishonest "questions".

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