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(DIR) Post #B0xCkHsYiVPu2P511M by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-05T23:43:46Z
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It bothers me that before they show the footage of the murder of these people, the news man never says "We are about to show footage where people were killed some viewers might find this disturbing." As they would for other disasters, so when the bile rises in my throat, because I really did just see some people snuffed out of existence I also have to feel like I'm being too sensitive for caring. The careless way some death is displayed is also a kind of propaganda that explains who matters.
(DIR) Post #B0xDAc8c17xoOn8sca by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-05T23:48:31Z
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And could we get a visual of the size of the US Navy boat next to their "targets" ... it's preposterous. These are monstrous machines of war. The boats they are shooting are unarmed. You want the drugs? Want the drug dealers. Point your guns at them and simply take them.
(DIR) Post #B0xDJMhQmnrX7jbL8q by paninid@mastodon.world
2025-12-05T23:50:05Z
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@futurebird But then there would be video of the performance to show Dear Leader on a TV screen.
(DIR) Post #B0xDo4O6uzjPJBCnMu by lucy_stoner@sfba.social
2025-12-05T23:55:35Z
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@futurebird Exactly! Speed boat blown up by an aircraft carrier is not the look they want. But, to avoid talking on their terms, drug running isn't war and until someone reputable provides proof they were something other than fisherman this is murder.
(DIR) Post #B0xEB6MjjN7o6RXrU0 by funkula@goblin.camp
2025-12-05T23:59:44Z
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@futurebird the great thing about killing drug dealers instead of apprehending them is no awkward conversation about "we aren't drug dealers, we're fishing, please note all these fish and absolutely zero drugs apart from Jorge's cigs"Like I genuinely believe the no survivors policy is because they know they're killing innocent people and don't want to leave any witnesses
(DIR) Post #B0xFARA91TjEGfu0LQ by SnowyCA@social.vivaldi.net
2025-12-06T00:10:51Z
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@futurebird I am the same --there's no need to show death scenes--it's dehumanizing and I think it is planned desensitization
(DIR) Post #B0xG9cRfgkTyvQH3lQ by RiaResists@mastodon.social
2025-12-06T00:21:56Z
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@futurebird Right?!?Breaks my heart over & over again. It’s cold-blooded mass murder & needs to be treated as such.
(DIR) Post #B0xQJE5k5ZRvpaEk8e by spiegelmama@infosec.exchange
2025-12-06T02:15:42Z
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@futurebird I have to look away. That doesn't, of course, solve the problem of murder footage, military snuff films, being used as b-roll.
(DIR) Post #B0xQLzjhv01UB3FZfk by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-06T02:16:15Z
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@lucy_stoner Speed boat blown up by an aircraft carrier is not the look they want.I'm not into war or war stuff, but if I were and I was on an aircraft carrier I would be so... disgusted and shamed by this BS. It's like like well it's Blowing up a motor boat with an aircraft carrier. I can't think of a better example of "disproportionate"It's embarrassing. Shame on the whole nation.
(DIR) Post #B0xTiZ6rNguu7SX9X6 by lucy_stoner@sfba.social
2025-12-06T02:53:55Z
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@futurebird I so hate this is being done in our name. Shameful
(DIR) Post #B0xWljhCmIYtgPjmRE by mike805@noc.social
2025-12-06T03:28:02Z
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@futurebird @lucy_stoner Someday someone is going to blow up an aircraft carrier with a motor boat. The Navy has done sims where a swarm of fast boats come at a carrier. The carrier loses. Ukraine has already mastered the art of the sea drone.
(DIR) Post #B0xZJxBrJQPzI0WGY4 by foolishowl@social.coop
2025-12-06T03:56:39Z
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@futurebird It's such blatant lying.
(DIR) Post #B0xbgaKif0Dcy5aD0S by jonhendry@iosdev.space
2025-12-06T04:23:10Z
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@futurebird Also the Navy ships are probably over the horizon and not even visible to the small boats.
(DIR) Post #B0xdATb0NFIsiM19pg by fshinneman@norcal.social
2025-12-06T04:39:47Z
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@futurebird @gleick Jssee Welles:Well, there's a bloated inefficient bureaucratic messrun by a mediocre soldier quasi general less.A diabolical office of death and wasterun by a weekend anchor with a desperate rage
(DIR) Post #B0xo289VJdWfO5NSBE by SubductionRheology@cyberplace.social
2025-12-06T06:41:30Z
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@futurebird The Coast Guard has had problems with the just "point your guns at them" approach. Between when the boat is spotted and the boat spots the helicopter the drugs are thrown into the water. When the Coast Guard boat arrives to physically stop them there are no drugs on board and no legal reason to hold them. I am sure this is why the MAGA folk went with the 'kill them all and let God sort them out' approach.
(DIR) Post #B0yDApHNLu1cJXIno0 by CatHat@mstdn.party
2025-12-06T04:12:10Z
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@mike805 @futurebird @lucy_stoner we lost that sort of fight against Yemen already. they absolutely could have done much more damage to us. they chose not to.
(DIR) Post #B0yDAqqrVS0NBsueky by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-06T11:23:13Z
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@CatHat @mike805 @lucy_stoner They are just (maybe) smugglers or people who have be hired by smugglers. That is, it's basically a small commercial vessel possibly for a black market good, but maybe not even that. Maybe the boat is full of sneakers and fish. We don't even know. It's not even going to the US. Why do we care? Go home.
(DIR) Post #B0yS0DP4ojmBGFIpfc by Yoshi@toot.community
2025-12-06T14:09:23Z
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@futurebird This is just MAGAmoron and kegsbreath waving their dicks to show Venezuelans whose is bigger.
(DIR) Post #B0yX6bagIoXhmhb58q by aadeacon@mastodon.social
2025-12-06T15:06:33Z
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@futurebird Part of this, I think, is to desensitise people to murder and killing. The second reason is tackling the problem at source-American drug consumers is to difficult as many are rich and famous. The only way to stop the drug trade is to stop consuming drugs, this is a health issue not a crime issue.
(DIR) Post #B0yYpsW2K1jdGJZmnA by Lazarou@mastodon.social
2025-12-06T15:25:57Z
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@futurebird @lucy_stoner Klingons would find no honour in such an act. It is the action of a bully, not a warrior (whatever the fuck that is)
(DIR) Post #B0yZADRMEcFxwy5M4O by Benhm3@mastodon.social
2025-12-06T15:29:38Z
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@futurebird @lucy_stoner Agreed! Amplifying: Constructing a nuclear powered force projection machine, then putting it to work in a puddle in the parking lot of the neighborhood grocery store, is really humiliating.
(DIR) Post #B0yZQKhB1nUz5KAavI by geonz@mathstodon.xyz
2025-12-06T15:32:33Z
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@futurebird @lucy_stoner Yes. We need more Jesse Welles' type responses. It's so manly to ... zip tie kids, blow up tiny little boats....
(DIR) Post #B0ydVUvOp3AE4jXaF6 by TomasHradcky@mstdn.social
2025-12-06T16:18:17Z
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@futurebird The full weight of the most powerful overbloated navy in the world PLUS a navy seal team. I wish I was embarrassed only, but disgusted and sick need to be in there for the rotting corpse of this country I was born in.
(DIR) Post #B0zZSvV9LiruyRk0FU by itzpete@mastodon.social
2025-12-07T03:07:43Z
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@futurebird It’s not about drugs. It’s about trying to stop the flow of drug money into Venezuela that props up Maduro’s government.
(DIR) Post #B100dphrvriuwv7DJQ by CatHat@mstdn.party
2025-12-07T08:12:10Z
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@futurebird @mike805 @lucy_stoner we shouldn't be there at all but aircraft carriers are pretty obsolete now