sounds like this can only end with lobotomies to make their soliders feel nothing and question nothing

  • Philosoraptor [he/him, comrade/them]
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    “We could find ourselves in a situation where our soldiers, as talented and trained as they are, are facing an unfair fight because another country is willing to say, ‘Hey, guess what, you, male, are a good aviator. You, female, are a good aviator. You’re gonna make the best aviator babies we’ve ever seen and I don’t care that you’re not married,” he said. The other panelists laughed nervously. “That’s a thing. Are they willing to go that extra step that we are not?”

    We must not allow those filthy commies to force us into an aviation eugenics gap! strangelove

    • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]
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      7 months ago

      There needs to be a ban on non-biologists discussing anything related to evolution, genetics, or inheritance because it always ends up in the same dumbass place.

      While we're at it, a ban on the military funding any research whatsoever.

    • CrushKillDestroySwag
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      7 months ago

      I wanna grab that person and yell into their ear.

      spongebob-i-fucking-love NOBODY IS DOING THAT! NOBODY HAS EVER DONE THAT!

      • D61 [any]
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        7 months ago

        NOBODY IS DOING THAT! NOBODY HAS EVER DONE THAT!

        Eugenicists: :Am_I_nothing_to_you:

        • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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          7 months ago

          So in 20 years you get someone who is I guess more likely to have genetically determined qualities that could help you in some military capacity but it's also far far far from guaranteed, would still take training and stuff and that's a lot for someone who's just gonna fly a plane over a place and drop bombs on it.

    • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]
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      7 months ago

      What happens when the eugenics baby turns out to be shinji-jokerfied and won't get in the fighter jet (that is obviously also his mother)

    • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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      7 months ago

      They get so hung up on fucking when it is an incomparably more relevant question hypothetically whether some citizens are made to train from childhood.

      • WayeeCool [comrade/them]
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        7 months ago

        They are literally describing the 1998 film Solider. I swear these fkers saw that movie, have probably watched it 50 times and rather than thinking it's a cautionary tale about the US direction toward militarism instead took it as a guidebook.

        Movie is worth a watch if you haven't seen it. Has the trainers raising the children like chattel. When one of the 10 year old kids can't keep up during a run, the trainer has him stop then puts him down like a lame race horse. The other children hearing the gunshot after they are out of sight is motivation or something. The main character has flashbacks to various campaigns he fought in and honestly they are battlefields the US military is already foaming at the mouth to start wars on. Scenes like slaughtering Chinese settlements on the moon and planting American flags kinda stuff.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soldier_(1998_American_film)

        Don't bother with the squeal, it's trash like most from that era and the first movie was only okay not great. The sequel is all about the wholesome eugenics breading program soliders being morally better than the genetically engineered test tube baby soliders. American brained morality.

    • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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      7 months ago

      The point of course of making shit up about other people wanting to do that, is because he himself wants to do it

      Maladjusted wasp freaks laundering eugenics thru pointed fingers is an age old tradition

    • oregoncom [he/him]
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      7 months ago

      mfw the pilots whose grandparents I selectively bred to be good at flying biplanes suck at piloting jet fighters. Maybe that's the real reason the F35s keep crashing.

  • windowlicker [she/her]
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    7 months ago

    they literally used a picture of master chief in some social media advertising for this panel. a man who was kidnapped as a child by a militaristic state to be made into a living killing machine stripped of all humanity he ever had. they're definitely not being subtle about it.

  • CommieCretzl [he/him]
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    7 months ago

    Fascism is so fucking childish. We don't have to fear them achieving their goals except for all the damage they'll do trying

    • D61 [any]
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      7 months ago

      Panzerchocolate!

    • Gosplan14_the_Third [none/use name]
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      7 months ago

      That description probably applies most soldiers in combat situations. The military in capitalist states is a hive of nationalism after all, by design.

  • Teekeeus [comrade/them]
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    7 months ago

    scientists creating people who feel nothing while killing

    yakub invents the whites

  • PKMKII [none/use name]
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    7 months ago

    Isn’t this the back story for the Evil Empire’s army in every FPS game?

    • GarfieldYaoi [he/him]
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      7 months ago

      so-true: "Evil Empire? You believe in evil? Pah, morality is for the weak! This will make us better at war and that is all that matters! You're too caught up in your feelings, and that's weakness! Yes, I am a traditionalist Christian, why'd you ask?"

      I've said it before and I'll say it again, the right likes to brag that they're chaotic neutral, but they're the textbook example of lawful evil.

      • Tunnelvision [they/them]
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        7 months ago

        I always get confused with these things like I understand what you’re saying, but what’s the difference between lawful evil and chaotic evil besides writing it down in the big book that says “the law” on it?

  • VapeNoir [he/him]
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    7 months ago

    I mean yeah this is scary, but this is also some neom ass shit

    • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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      7 months ago

      One of the bullet points is "able to regrow limbs and heal quickly like a lizard"

      Which is something I would write as a 12 year old drawing cool space soldiers in class

      • PointAndClique [they/them]
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        7 months ago

        If you're in combat and your squadmate in front goes down you have to pick up their prosthetic nekomimi and tail, graft them to yourself and keep fighting

  • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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    7 months ago

    I updated my whatsapp too close to the barracks and now all my cybernetically linked super soldiers are perfectly and uncontrollably making the notification sounds with their mouths, please help

  • LeZero [he/him]
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    7 months ago

    Homo Robocopus

    farquaad-point

    Lamest shit I've read this week