15k upvotes on r/politics, at least the comments don’t totally suck (but boy are some people really trying)
“The Biden Administration used next-generation ‘green bombs’ in the latest airstrikes on Syria, these eco friendly explosives discharge seeds upon impact and bury them in the rubble.”
AP NEWS/REUTERS 2032: “Biden Admin-era ‘Green Bombs’ found to have seeded massive wave of invasive plant life in Syria, destroying crop fields and unbalancing delicate ecosystem currently deteriorating under mounting effects of climate change”
Did he think hospitals didn’t accept women and children?
Neolibs be like “targeted drone strikes rarely result in collateral damage. Diamond Joe is based. NATO is based” then this news story drops and they don’t bat an eye. To be fair I would rather Biden in charge than most of his neoliberal ghoul counterparts, he was the only one in the control room who didn’t want to authorize the SEALs to take out OBL back in 2010 which they use as an example of Obama being the Based droney good man but I think is a good sign of Biden’s instincts being to use less force if at all possible.
-Soulja
We already know the military will act on their own when the President doesn’t do what they want because that’s what they did with Trump. The bad part of this is that because it’s Biden and a “good man” in office, when it happens again nobody will care or notice. Any suggestion that it happens again will be written off as a wild conspiracy. If he refuses to bomb targets they want to bomb, they’ll just cut him out of the loop.
I think something else I wanted to convey is that this headline of “we almost killed these innocent people but didn’t” doesn’t really leave me feeling much better about our presence in the middle east lol.
It gives me serious “we are a moral army” vibes and it’s an obvious propaganda play. Am I just a giant lib for pointing this out because everyone else here already sees that?
Oh yeah, this def plays into that big MRA talking point about men being viewed as disposable by feminists; dead men don’t make headlines etc.
First you say no collateral deaths.
Later there’s a dire situation where an exception seems warranted.
Then the exception becomes the rule.
