• immuredanchorite [he/him, any]
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    11 months ago

    checkmate! it can’t be called a war if we simply lob misiles at a country and arm every lunatic we find, completely destroying it in the process smuglord

    • Bernie2028@midwest.social
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      11 months ago

      Well yeah, you OBJECTIVELY can't call what happened in Libya a "war". It was bad and unnecessary, but by definition, not a war... You did not have US troops fighting Libyan troops.

      • brain_in_a_box [he/him]
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        11 months ago

        So because the US troops were using weapons the Libyan troops couldn't effectively fight back against, it doesn't count as a war?

        "It wasn't a battle, it was a just a massacre, so it's OK"

        • Bernie2028@midwest.social
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          11 months ago

          You're fighting with the air. I very clearly said Libya wasn't ok.

          You're right, massacres aren't battles and we shouldn't call them that. Of course that doesn't make it any better but why call it a battle if it's not?

          • brain_in_a_box [he/him]
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            11 months ago

            So if Libyan forces had managed to shoot down a western bomber, you would consider it a war?

                • Bernie2028@midwest.social
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                  11 months ago

                  Ok I'm gonna be honest I'm probably wrong, I was thinking semantically but googling that was a surprise for me. Just didn't want the hexbears to be right.

                  • immuredanchorite [he/him, any]
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                    11 months ago

                    Its cool that you admitted you just didn't want anyone from hexbear to be right. That takes a lot of insight. You should consider opening your mind now to the possibility that you could be wrong about much more. You reflexive distaste for hexbear probably has more to do with your own cognitive dissonance than whether our opinions are wrong. Most of the people (bots) on hexbear were (are) libs too, but at some point opened their minds and began to approach history, political-economy, and current events with a more critical eye.

      • Farman [any]
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        11 months ago

        Are us pilots not us troops?