• star_wraith [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    This is not something the US would ever use.

    The US is the only country to use nuclear weapons in war, killing tens of thousands of innocent civilians. For no better reason than they wanted to see what nukes would do and/or ending the war before the Soviets jumped in.

    The US also engaged in terrorism via the Contras in Nicaragua. They engaged in the systematic torture, murder and sexual violence against thousands of men, women, and children. Many of them tortured and killed in the most gruesome ways possible.

    The US helped Indonesia kill a million innocent people in the mid 60s.

    I could go on, but you get the idea. So somehow using some sort of ray that disorients people and makes them forgetful is beyond the pale for the US?

    • Chapo_is_Red [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      This shit drives me crazy, we don't even need to look that far into the past.

      Literally their last week in Afghanistan US droned ten Afghan people (adults were aid workers), didn't even kill a "bad guy", and then after investigation said there had been no wrong doing (just "mistakes").