16 Jul 10:09
--You are just remotely controlling a robot aircraft, without any real emotional stake in the killing or threat to yourself.
Shout Box archive
16 Jul 10:08
--One of the disturbing things with drones is that it makes war like a video game.
16 Jul 10:06
--this whole year is just a long setup for the joke that trump in the oval office will be
16 Jul 10:06
--Voting isn't always the way especially with the mugs you have to choose from
16 Jul 10:05
--Politicians bend to one thing over lobby money...populist rising and movement.
16 Jul 10:02
--I didn't say the only reason was that, but it is one of them. A lot of the people who died in recent wars were contractors, and they don't count civilian deaths the same way.
16 Jul 10:01
--Nah the reason was money. You can overcharge a private company for "services" and the military will pay for it. Guess who owned shares in the main contractor companies.
16 Jul 10:00
--And nobody seems to give a f*ck about people who got their family get together busted by a bunch of Hellfire missiles.
16 Jul 09:59
--This is also one of the reasons civilian military contractors became such a thing. Politicians could ignore the real costs of war because civilians aren't sent home with flags draped over their coffins.
16 Jul 09:58
--Yeah, just keep the killing well from US (pun intended) and we are happy lol
16 Jul 09:58
--I know, I'm going to go fly a drone over Trump's next ralley and take that fucker out, because clearly it would be better for the outcomes for world peace.
16 Jul 09:57
--I think the reason drones are accepted is that a. they keep the horrors of war well away from US citizens and b. no boots on the ground, thus no dead young people sent home with flags draped on their coffins.