• RePsyche@lemmy.world
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    How much do all those missiles cost? Asking for a friend who would have preferred to have healthcare, education, free electricity, and a fully solvent Social Security system, amongst other peaceful priorities.

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    Aim for the skies Iran! I’m rooting for a lot more aircraft and a couple of aircraft carriers to be added to that tally!

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      I get the sentiment, but that’s thousands of deaths.

      Edit: It seems we have a ton of war hawks here. I know that Iran is defending itself, as they should. But nobody should be cheering on the war and deaths of thousands on any side. I would cheer on the total withdrawal of the US. I would rather nobody dies senseless deaths.

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        If the US doesn’t want thousands of deaths on their end, maybe they should have considered not attacking Iran.

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        Tell that to the Iranians who are losing their homes, their hospitals, their schools and universities, their offices and of course their lives and the lives of their loved ones

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          Like in that case, it’s only an atrocity to them if the dead are white

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        They are completely allowed to refuse these orders but choose to follow them. Congress has not approved this war so it is 100% illegal. No soldier should carry out orders given illegally.

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          That’s not how that works. An order can be legal whether these attacks are legal, extra-legal, or illegal (they’re extra-legal or legal). Congress has given the president power to perform some military actions without their approval. Their approval is needed to declare war, and they’re required to be notified of the president taking certain actions (which they weren’t at the start, making what the president did illegal, but not the soldiers).

          This isn’t defending the actions. This is only a statement of fact, letting you and others know you don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about when you use this saying. Yes, they can (in fact, they must) refuse illegal orders, but that doesn’t mean what you’re implying.

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          Yeah, I can get behind that. But sinking multiple carriers is a bit extreme. I think what we all really want is the immediate withdrawal of those carriers and no more death.

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            Extreme? They’re getting bombed, their public infrastructure is getting targeted, schoolchildren are dying, but killing US soldiers is a step too far???

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                You think Iran wants this war? You think they’re welcoming their country getting laid waste to because it means they get to kill some Americans? They’re not the ones who started it and they don’t have the power to stop it. You want it stopped? Maybe focus solely on the US instead of this both sides victim blaming bullshit.

                If you were a teacher you’d probably be the kind who sees a kid beating up another kid and suspends them both because the kid getting beat up tried swinging at the attacker after they already started beating them up and “all violence is wrong.”

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                Tell me please, how do you stop an enemy army from killing your people & destroying your infrastructure? Do you think the US will go back if asked politely? Be serious

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        Self defense. They rained death on Iran first.

        You know how you prevent those deaths? Stop fucking invading Iran. Those deaths are completely on the US’s hands.

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          The USA encourages young people to do that by keeping them in poverty and ignorance. So it’s kind of voluntary but not exactly freely chosen.

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            Not an excuse. Not even in the slightest. You don’t get to kill people to feed yourself. Would you defend poor people joining gangs and cartels?

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            This is exactly why they target low income communities for recruitment. Someone who is down and out is a far better target for recruitment.

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        God forbid someone do to americans what they love doing to the rest of the world

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        My boys have the right to defend themselves; Also this will be great data if the US or Israel plan future wars of aggression!

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    F-35 is supposed to be stealth, it turns out to be extremely expensive garbage. Taxpayers should be angry at Lockheed

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      The F-35 was designed from the start to be a revenue stream. Everything you hear about it is pure, unadulterated marketing wank.

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      That has been known a long time, called a ‘complete failure’ by their own generals.
      Took some time to prove it since the cowards never fought an adversary that could defend itself.
      Despite plenty of data and negative articles many of our sell-out EU vassals ‘decided’ to buy these also immensely expensive things.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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      I mean it’s stealth in one spectrum. Evidently the geniuses who designed the flying Cybertruck didn’t consider other spectrums like thermal.

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      Taxpayers are too stupid to grasp numbers this big.

      They only care about the wealth tax on people who make more than 400k a year. That’s a number they can understand cause it’s roughly a house.

      Even though the twats who vote for this rarely hit that level of income.

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    Thats a lot less than I thought it would be by this stage.

    But I also suspect that Iranian military losses are also a lot less than the US is proporting

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      Before they could use missiles from a safe distance like the cowards they are.
      But running low on them so they had to start using more planes recently. (Saw this reported last week)
      this increases the risk dramatically.
      And 4 hits in 24 hrs reflect this.
      Let’s hope it goes up a lot more.