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Woodkovsky âšī¸âđģâđŊâđŖâđŠâđ§ģâđ, Sun 12 Sep 2021, 12:21,
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saw a show about the drone operators
a lot of them live in vegas, work normal 8 hour shifts, go shopping, do some bowling, go see a movie, commute to creech air force base where they sit their fat arse in front of a screen and pilot a drone on the other side of the world, incinerating targets like this poor blokes and his kids, then maybe get a doughnut on the way home from krispy creme.
amazing they somehow failed to win over the afghani populace, ay?
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sun 12 Sep 2021, 14:21,
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Not dissimilar
but at work in the early 2010s, I happened to overhear a USAF officer discussing the difficulty that the B2 crews were having flying Afghan combat missions out of Whiteman AFB in the US, dropping bombs and missiles half a world away then going back home to their families.
To which my internal reaction was: "Good".
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Sun 12 Sep 2021, 18:54,
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Terrorists
Suicide vest in a packed marketplace or a hellfire missile gatecrashing a wedding. Both are acts of terrorism.
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buffet_the_appetite_slayer ŲŠ(âĖŽĖ•)Ûļ jacked in to the ICE on, Tue 14 Sep 2021, 10:37,
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Nothing new here
move along...
Seriously, the US has a long history of extrajudicial killings using drones based on metadata, sometimes just mobile phone data, which is sketchy at best if there are no eyes and ears on the ground. It's a great way of ensuring you create more 'terrorists', which in turn is a great way of selling more drones, particularly if you aren't able to be held accountable for your actions, which of course the US has been careful to engineer.
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