• Hoodoo [love/loves]
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    3 years ago

    Rhetorical noisemaking.

    Is calling them offensive missiles actually changing anything at all?

    Playing around with the Defense Department/War Department wording is childish.

    • Vncredleader
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      3 years ago

      idk if I'd call tautology childish, it belies something deeper

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      3 years ago

      Is calling them offensive missiles actually changing anything at all?

      It's a huge shift in public perception.

      "The Iron Dome is an offensive system for waging war against brown people" flips the narrative from "how can you oppose our peacemaking plan?" to "remember that time we sold chemical weapons to Saddam Hussein?"

  • Haste_Hall [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    https://twitter.com/AthertonKD/status/1440392205026299911?s=19