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🙏🙏 (idk if this is real)
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It’s satire. Original tweet was about an environmentally friendly radar system from Raytheon
The fact that so many people actually fell for it is worrying not just because reality itself has become satire but because this post should be painfully obvious. Ain’t nobody marketing missiles to anyone who cares about the carbon footprint.
A lot of things are pretty normal today that would’ve been satire 10 years ago
“environmentally friendly radar system”
so weather radar?
probably non-cancerous cooling sytsem or some shit like that, maybe lower RF emissions
Not going to lie. I believed it and thought ‘wow between this and the knife missile that greatly reduces civilian casualties Rathiyon are probably most morally upstanding war profiteirs of our era’
now I am just disappointed
The knife missile was actually kinda awesome in its own way tbh. Ridiculous precision for super long distance murder with as few casualties as possible.
It’s also frightening that it exists.
the knife missile is so emblematic of the entire military industrial complex. can’t stop engaging in unnecessary resource wars due to unnecessary casualties. instead, the military industrial complex will develop and sell a product to allow the killing of specific people in public spaces. and the more you think about the idea of being at a produce stand and someone standing next to you turning into a fine red mist, never to exist in physical space again, the more distopian it seems.
it reminds me of the episode of star trek where they encounter a planet that has eliminated war via coordinated computer simulations and voluntary genocides.
Knife missiles are real things?? Scary stuff. I’m about half way through the Culture series at the moment, never heard of them before…
It’s the Hellfire AGM-114R-9X
A while back it was used to kill some dude without the other people in the same house being collateral damage, so it got meme status for a while.
Question. Are the knives really needed? I feel like getting hit with what is essentially a 5 foot long, 7 inch wide bullet, travelling at mach 1 would prove to be equally efficient at killing single targets, as strapping knives to it.
it reduces the risk of missing because the target bent over to pick up a quarter, or stepped to the side because they saw something interesting. the knives in question are basically swords that deploy radially from the missile body like an umbrella.
There have been times it’s been used against a whole carful of people, and cars are bigger than seven inches.
If we’re going to have missiles, knife missiles are a good thing
I just thought it was funny I didn’t think it was real.
You’re not going to beat the mosquito or rotavirus when it comes to environmentally friendly killers. Lethality, prodigious. Carbon footprint, minimal (small amount of flatulence, don’t worry about it). This comment was sponsored by Gnawed VPN.
This reminds me of Jeremy Kauffman’s ad, “War is Gay,” which advocated for making militarism as gay as possible. The point is that militarism, or zabernism, is considered acceptable and even encouraged as long as DEI quotas are met within the military. https://youtu.be/kdfym6LKpQ0
I would argue against having military, but that’d be pointless. If we’re going to have it, it should be as representative of the population as possible. It might save the lives of underrepresented citizens when we’re invading.
So you actually believe a military should have quotas based on arbitrary characteristics such as race or gender, tied to the population it is meant to protect? That is, if the population is around 50% women, the military should attempt to have 50% women in all positions? And that any disparate outcome would be evidence of racism or sexism? Would that be your position taken to its extreme, while your actual position has the same essence but is much more sensible in degree? Or what do you think?
*edit: please don’t downvote mori on this, those are absolutely valid questions and a chance to clarify without angry rebuttal is always welcome
So you actually believe a military should have quotas based on arbitrary characteristics such as race or gender
Not arbitrary at all. I think the makeup should exactly mirror the population distribution as closely as it can. We invade places, it’s hoards of guys and it’s a lot of rape and pillage and less worry about illegal orders. I think a proper distribution would help that out a lot.
And that any disparate outcome would be evidence of racism or sexism
Nope, don’t give a shit about that at all. I just think they should try to have our military not being 99% white men covering each others asses doing shit they shouldn’t. DEI isn’t just about combating racism/sexism, it’s making sure that the staffing matches the population. A team with 20% minorities will be less likely to be overzealous on minorities. A team of 50% women will be less likely to rape or allow the rape of women in action zones.
Would that be your position taken to its extreme, while your actual position has the same essence but is much more sensible in degree? Or what do you think?
Not quite sure I grasp that series of questions. I don’t think they should force minorities/women into the military, but they should try hard to be representative and mix everyone together. Nothing beats sexist/racist views in individuals like working closely with people of other races/sexes. Hell it might even drive out people that should have power over other people.
It’s obviously not without issue. But we need more mixing of culture/race/sex on the daily basis or we’ll be in this while male superiority complex society forever.
Destroying aircraft seems like a very ecofriendly thing to do, same as killing humans
Humans are also the environment 🙄
Humans are the major cause of environmental collapse.
To quote Carlin, “The earth doesn’t share our prejudice against plastic… The planet is fine. The people are fucked.”
People are just as much a part of this biosphere as is moss, or you.
Moss probably doesn’t like plastic very much, Carlin was talking about the rock, not thin film on the surface
It’s so cool 😎🥰 You missed but it’s fine, you’ll never realise, I’ll work double as hard! Let’s be those who intervene instead of blaming and moaning bro!
Be positive now, okay:)?
Some specific humans
humans are the major cause for human collapse. the environment will survive… mostly
Humans are animals, which are a part of the environment. The major cause of human and environmental collapse is a bunch of rich pieces of shit upholding a cruel, unsustainable system and leading you to believe that’s just ‘human nature’ & how things are and have always been.
yeah I mean this is essentially what I wanted to express here. Being an ecofascist makes no sense because you’d essentially be killing all the humans to protect the humans.
There’s nothing separating us from the enwictonment. You’re a human exceptionalist.
… and humans are also needed by a lot of domestic animals and plants. So it seems more comple… No it’s not, it’s capitalism. Kill capitalism, not beings
I love this! Here I’m understanding how a minimal mind works 🥰 Thanks for introducing me to the “outskirts” of using the brain, it’s great to get stuff!
You don’t get it. I mean, you really² don’t get it.
We’re not something outside nature.
Correct, but we also have a disproportionate effect on the rest of nature.
Like yes, cancer is human cells, but that doesn’t diminish the damage they do to the rest of the human cells.
More importantly, it kills them when they’re old and already contributed most of their pollution and the cancer care also wastes lots of plastic and resources.
Nah, cigarettes kill way too slowly for that. Meth, though …
Oh cool ecofascism
There won’t be any kind of fascism left once the last human is checked off.
But who is going to clean up the trash from the wreckage?
The important thing is to point them at the correct aircraft.
Frutiger Anti-Aero
What? The green revolution doesn’t deserve anti-aircraft capabily?
Aircraft shot down over shallow waters can even turn into coral reefs! Wow!
And just think about all the thankful sea critters feasting on the bodies!
make a better future for the children of the world by blowing up half of it
Killing is good way to reduce your CO2 footprint
Bombs are not environmentally friendly.
Bombs from Raytheon are environmentally friendly. Making war environmentally friendly is what Raytheon is all about. Raytheon a green company! 👍🏽
Average person’s carbon footprint is 7 tons CO2 per year. Killing just one person will make a bomb environmentally friendly.
That’s actually a statistical error, Carbon Bezos is an outlier who should not have been counted.
But it’s just as easy to blow up with a bomb. So it evens out.
Is it, though? If there’s a non-government person who has the means to protect themselves against fucking missile strikes, one of the richest people on the planet seems like a likely candidate.
But what if we made them so? 🤔
Maybe the next iteration can have some seeds mixed in the payload to sprout little trees and plants over the wreckage.
I heard they’re coming out with a new one that does have the seeds but they’re all non-natives selected for maximum ecological impact. You win some, you lose some
Carbon neutralized
Woke SAMs
Lefty nonsense
Competition for Veridian Dynamics
Veridian Dynamics. We can. But we won’t. Yet.
