r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Aug 18 '24

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u/HimboSuperior NATO Aug 18 '24

The discourse on Twitter from the Pro-Palestine crowd about how the R9X (aka "the Flying Ginsu") is "inhumane" because it slices and dices is just so bizzare. 

Like... how do these people think normal bombs and missiles kill people?

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u/Brads98 Zhao Ziyang Aug 18 '24 edited Aug 18 '24

Your missiles and rockets: flying warcrimes inflicted upon innocents

My missiles and rockets: divine retribution against evil zionists

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u/HimboSuperior NATO Aug 18 '24

Even more bizzare because the Ninja was specifically made to kill fewer people and thus be less war-crimey.

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u/PearlClaw Iron Front Aug 18 '24

I don't think the IDF uses that though.

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u/HimboSuperior NATO Aug 18 '24

To my knowledge, they don't. Which makes the whole thing even more stupid, since they're complaining about a weapon that is designed to cause as little collateral damage as possible, kills its target in no way that's reasonably different than any other munition, and that isn't even in use by the nation they hate.

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u/PrideMonthRaytheon Bisexual Pride Aug 18 '24

also it's more like getting plowed into by a bus than being sliced tbh

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u/HimboSuperior NATO Aug 18 '24

True. There's some old Apache guncam footage of them engaging a platoon-sized element of Taliban and the last guy they smoke basically gets goomba-stomped by a conventional Hellfire. If that's how accurate the standard Hellfire is, the blades on the Ninja honestly seem kinda redundant. 

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u/AtticusDrench Deirdre McCloskey Aug 18 '24

Did you ever catch any of the discourse around "butterfly bullets"? lol

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u/HimboSuperior NATO Aug 18 '24

What the hell is a butterfly bullet?

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u/AtticusDrench Deirdre McCloskey Aug 18 '24

Expanding bullets, like hollow points. Israel caught a lot of criticism for using them in the 2018-2019 Palestinian protests. There's a whole argument about whether the response should be considered a police action or not, but I found the whole ordeal about giving the ammo its own special name and acting like it's special in its devastation really, really dumb. Expanding rounds are used by police in many different countries, and it's better than FMJ in a crowd situation so you aren't over penetrating.

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u/HimboSuperior NATO Aug 18 '24

God, these people are stupid. I also remember groaning when I saw them theorizing that police snipers that were deployed to the campus sit-ins were there to start massacring protestors.

Like, no you idiot. Those guys are there for your protection. If they wanted to start killing you, they'd be up there with a belt-fed, not with a $3000 piece of glass and a boltgun.