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Targeting the families of those who use the drones and machine guns? Seems like a really dumb idea to target the people whose bases you just moved onto so as to hide from the people.

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[–] SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 6 points 8 hours ago

I have known a few Marines. They will not appreciate this initiative.

This is not a wise course of action.

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

Also foreign adoptions.

[–] Sir_Simon_Spamalot@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago
[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

What the ACTUAL fuck?

Are they TRYING to be as stupid as they possibly can be??

This isn't just shooting themselves in the foot. This is planting a live grenade in their own underwear while stepping barefoot on Lego and shouting abuse about a serial killer's mother to his face while covered in meat within an enclosure full of starving lions!

[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 5 points 7 hours ago

trying? no. They simply are.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 11 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Remember fascist have always been fucking braindead, due to how their political cults tend to work they are far more interested in grand standing than getting effective results even within their own so called ideological framework. For example the Confederates had to start losing the war before they started using slave labor for things like logistics, which the abhorancy of slavery aside I thought that was one of the reasons to keep slaver, ya know to do the work noone can or wants to do.

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 2 points 48 minutes ago (1 children)

The slaves were already working for their owners.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 points 14 minutes ago

Even if that was the case you'd think they'd give a tax break for those who "volunteered" their slave or even have the state aquire their own. Regardless my point was moreso that they didn't do so for ideological reasons since they did do it eventually but we're resistant to doing so due to ideology and pride.

[–] Zak@lemmy.world 45 points 16 hours ago

How to lose the civil war you're trying to start in one easy step.

[–] wuffah@lemmy.world 25 points 15 hours ago

Fascism eats itself.

[–] Didntdoit71@feddit.online 11 points 13 hours ago

When do the Marines get to target back?

[–] HeadfullofSoup@kbin.earth 22 points 16 hours ago

They need hostage if they don’t want them to revolt

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 13 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Them ICE people is jeniuses

[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

It's not just ICE here. The whole administration is malicious.

[–] killea@lemmy.world 17 points 17 hours ago

Jesus, I thought it said Iran instead of ice. And I was thinking how that is kind of a stupid idea. What a fucking timeline.

[–] 2piradians@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

When you get no travel money, but the trigger finger still gotta pull some shit