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?"
Rhetorical noisemaking.
Is calling them offensive missiles actually changing anything at all?
Playing around with the Defense Department/War Department wording is childish.
idk if I'd call tautology childish, it belies something deeper
Good point. :squirtle-jam:
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?"