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Dunking on r/neoliberal.
Not a low hanging fruit, but a root vegetable.
Still, comments on this relatively divided. Of course, some quite abysmal takes in there about how a prospective dem president should basically lie to the electorate and increase military spending after the campaign without saying so on the trail.
Basically, fuck democracy, we need the war machine rolling for ... (the purpose is unclear)
I do think that was a failure of rhetoric cause I remember thinking "why do people care about the fact that they're drones do much". I think it would have been now effective to focus on the missiles they used since those are pretty much the same, but it wouldn't have made a distance besides disapproval polling at 5 more percent anyway.
I think, at the time, the idea was how someone in an air-conditioned room thousands of miles away was carrying out killing strikes. It was a further removal from humanity. Not that having a pilot inside would have made a difference. To them everyone would look like ants, its not like they ever looked in the face of anyone they were shooting. If I remember right there was some controversy over a helicopter pilot gunning down civilians during W's Iraq War, so kind of a moot point aside fromt the fact that the person in the room isn't themselves at risk.
The main problem with drones was always that they were used to kill civilians and insurgents for the sake of propagating capitalist interests. Every thing else (including the pr) was downstream of the fact that the purpose they were used for just fucking sucked.
classic UAV drones, maybe less-so modern quadcopter shit, were used with impunity because they didn't put american soldiers at risk several years into what had become unpopular military adventures when a government that cared about civility and optics was in power.
between that and whatever absurdly high collateral damage rate that whistleblower leaked, drone strikes resulted in way more wanton death and destruction than if dronebama had to commit boots to get the murder done.
Exactly. Caring about the fact that so many people were killed by drone strikes was (and still is) the woke radical left position. Most Americans care more about American troops' lives than about thousands of innocents having fire rained upon them.