• Chaotic Entropy@feddit.uk
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    "There could be infrastructure there, there could be tunnels there. We’re still looking into it.”

    So… you bombed this refugee area, didn’t give a fuck… you got the target you wanted along with a bunch of civilians. Now, after the fact, you are searching for more justifications than you had before the attack was sanctioned.

    What the fuck. They may as well just say “tell us what you need to hear for this to be okay, and we’ll say it”.

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      Memba when the cops broke into Bo Jean’s apartment, shot him in the face while he was sitting on his couch eating ice cream, then searched the apartment they broke into and had a big press conference about how he had <1 gram of marijuana?

      Y’all know how american cops and the IDF trade people, training and techniques back and forth all the time?

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        I can imagine the news host already, “we don’t know what could have happened if we didn’t shoot this guy for <1 gram of hardcore addictive cannabis. Anything could have happened, just imagine, kids walking the streets, high as a kite, completely oblivious to how smelly and antisocial they would be. But only that, but they could be run over if I were to drink drive. If not me, someone else could, absolutely incredibly dangerous substances out there I tell you”

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          Less openly opinionated, more clinical and detached.

          An officer-adjacent ballistic event resulted in a cessation of vitality in a known drug offender. No further details have been released at this time.

          Think about how George Floyd was just ‘a counterfeiting suspect who overdosed on fentanyl’ until we saw the video where they knelt on his neck for minutes after he’s gone limp. The state uses passive, detached, clinical language to create distance between situations and the people responsible for creating them, and the news is an extension of the state.

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      Fun fact. Many of the “warnings” are recorded on video in English. What’s the majority language in Gaza again?