Miles O'Brien

“Tourists hit cyclist and fled the scene”

… Probably Americans.

reads the very next line

Wow, I’m soooooo surprised. Shocked, even.

Can American tourists not be shit for FIVE MINUTES???

“genocide is okay as long as it’s the right people”

-someone insane

That’s literally what it feels like: being stuck in an objective (the planet) and you have a teammate that’s SUPER gung ho about the fact he’s got a bomb vest (nukes) on that will go off if he dies, and you’re just praying he doesn’t catch a stray round (attack) while shooting at people from the doorway (doing proxy war things or just straight up committing/supporting genocide/ethnic cleansing/war of extermination/etc) or lose connection (leadership going insane).

If any of those things happen, you know you’re all toast. And it’s all mostly outside of your control.

I hate to use video games as a metaphor for literal nuclear war and sorry for spelling it out like I’m talking to a child but I felt it was needed for clarity.

We’re all on the planet together, and no one will ever be able to force everyone into submission, the more we fight the shorter time we have as a species.

nobody should have nuclear weapons.

Sometimes I wonder what the world would be like if the scientists working on the Manhattan project had all agreed it’s too much and intentionally sabotage every test.

Yeah, but this way you get to make sure your intended target actually gets hit instead of assuming the following nuclear wastwland would destroy your target like everything else.

It’s like the Martyrdom perk in fps games. You die and drop a grenade or c4 pack or something and explode, hopefully taking out the person who killed you.

It’s just a dead-man switch to get the AD part of MAD.

Effective? Maybe.

Incredibly stupid? Yes.

Is that stopping the US and Russia from doing it? Lolno we invented this dumb shit.

The world is run by insane people who would rather see the planet scorched into a lifeless rock than admit their way of doing things might be wrong.

I genuinely think he’s got that “someone told me I’m not allowed to do something so now it’s my only thought and I will do it no matter what” mentality that 6 year Olds have.

Someone told him he’s not allowed to use nuclear weapons, so he wants nothing more than to have an excuse.

Having been in the US military, I honestly think it would be about an even split between people who agree/don’t agree but will go along with orders vs disagree/undecided but unwilling to murder civilians.

Of course it would never have been “all or nothing” but I think people would be surprised at where the split is and for what reasons people picked their side.

And I’m being completely serious here: I fully believe members of the US military would carry out a nuclear strike on US soil, as long as it was one of “the woke states”, in order to make a point of “oppose us and we will kill all of you even if we die too”

There’s a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people.

-Commander William Adama, Battlestar Galactica (2004)

I remember when we used to hang traitors.

There sure are fucking truck loads of them in that picture.

I remember when the French helped us beat some tyranny away from our borders, and although I wouldn’t ask them to get their hands dirty when we start wrestling ourselves, I sure wish we could channel some of their energy into the people who “oppose” things like this… From their couch.

I long to see French level of protesting here in the states.

media outlets were intentionally toning down the coverage

American media, or media in general, toning down police brutality? Whaaaaaaaaaaat? Noooooooooooo. They would never do such a thing.

I think in this case they would be privateers, as they have government backing.

Semantics though, as privateers are just “pirates with permission to pirate certain groups over others”

Either way, “criminals and terrorists hijack peaceful convoy bound to deliver aid to genocide victims”

And that is a perfect example of why ALL COPS ARE BASTARDS

And anyone who says “it’s just one bad apple”, I submit to you that you require extea reading up on colloquialisms and old sayings, and more schooling to help comprehend the words you’re saying.

“one bad apple spoils the bunch”

If no one stops it from happening, they’re okay with it happening. If other cops just look away and say anything other than “hey guys, Connors just shot a reporter let’s go handcuff him and put him in the back of a car while contacting IA and our supervisors” then they’re just as guilty as the cop that shot the reporter.

The standard you walk past is the standard you accept.

“I’m not going to do what you want so you will have to come down here and drag me away”

Damn, Rosa Parks really should have tried resisting instead of just sitting in the front of the bus and refusing to move until she was dragged out by cops.

Cool.

The more they focus on trying to kill me, the less resources they have to kill some Palestinian.

It’s getting harder and harder to frame the IDF as the victims.

Similarly, it’s pretty hard to claim you’re the victim when you knocked your neighbor unconscious, dragged them into the basement, and beat them with a baseball bat for the next 24 hours.

The only thing that fully explains the deletion of the photos is opsec, though

“… without any assumptions, regardless of how plausible, bordering on certainty, that the assumption is” I suppose.

know everything about us and would track us down if any hidden or un-deleted photo was ever published.

“if you go back to your country and post anything we will murder you”

Personally I’d just use encrypted backups or data recovery and post literally everything I could, possibly with a taunt calling out the coward who can only threaten people when backed up by billions in military funding and personnel.

“Halt! Dürfen wir bitte ihre papiere sehen?”

Freshly boiled pasta is the best kind.

I don’t see why the US should be informed?

There shouldn’t be any US equipment in the area, why bother including anyone who doesn’t need to know?