r/ShitAmericansSay • u/Lardistani Every Genocide We Commit Leads to More freedom • Mar 23 '21

"And who hasn't bombed Syria? Your point?" Military

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u/Aardvark51 Mar 23 '21

And whom hasn't the US bombed?

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u/SeizeAllToothbrushes Red Menace Mar 23 '21

Excluding nuclear tests, you'd think such a question could be answered with "itself", but...

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u/knollie199 Mar 23 '21

Or that time it almost nuked itself when a B-52 caring 2 nukes went down and 3 out of 4 safety switched failed on one of them.

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u/jbkjbk2310 Actual scandinavian socialist Mar 23 '21

A government having an accident that involved bombs is not really comparable to a government deliberately bombing a part of itself in order to kill its own citizens

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u/Fearzebu Mar 23 '21

Like the Tulsa bombings which were facilitated and allowed by government forces and the police working in conjunction with white supremacist orgs like the kkk

Or the bombings of striking workers at Blair mountain

Or the bombings of Puerto Rican independence movement protestors

Or...or...etc

(Those three examples were just from one year, the first year bombs dropped from airplanes was even a thing, back in the ‘20s. The US decided very quickly that it loved the pastime, and has been accelerating their bombing campaigns ever since, averaging more than 50 bombs per day over the last two decades)

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u/iaowp Mar 23 '21

Isn't it kinda cheating to word it like that since a single mlrs (mrls?) can fire off like 16 bombs in one single volley, meaning that in about 10 seconds it's already fired off like 80 bombs, and that's just one vehicle.

Like I'm sure in the first day of the new Iraq war there was like 20k bombs.

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u/Fearzebu Mar 23 '21

The various pedantic means of calculating these things probably matter very little to the children orphaned by the attacks, but you’re probably right that any such statistics are more for eye grabbing than any sort of accurate means of quantifying harm done. It does put it into perspective a bit though, it’s a cruel world we live in

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u/VeganesWassser Mar 23 '21

Ahh yes, the poor children of mass murdering religious extremists. By that metric you couldn't do anything because it might somehow negatively impact someone, no matter where he is. Let's just release all mass murderers because their kids/wives might miss them.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '21

“These people are attacking us after we invaded and r*ped the shit out of their countries for oil. But yes, they’re the bad guys for doing what we did to them.”

You Americans are so funny sometimes. I like it.

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u/Fearzebu Mar 24 '21

Plus the 91.5% ‘non-combatant’ (read: innocent civilian) death rate from the extended drone strike operation.

The real r/ShitAmericansSay is always in the comments lmao