https://unofficialbird.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1685473357955776513#m

  • FALGSConaut [comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    Of course the guy talking a big game about killing people is A) an air force general, and B) a transport pilot who hasn't fired a shot in anger let alone killed someone. For some reason the most rabid Killology psychos have never actually seen combat

    • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      Probably the same way someone who's never pressure tested their martial arts (or has never done any at all) is most insistent that fighters do reckless techniques. I was at a UFC watch party over the weekend and when Bla- Jan Bl- Blastowitz... When Polish power was fighting Pereria and had begun getting striked after Pereria got up in the second round, a guy was like "you just need to go for another takedown!"

      The people with experience corrected him going "it's difficult, he just got punched in the face, his opponent is expecting it, it needs to be set up, last time it worked it was after avoiding a punch & not just executed from open space, and people get murked trying to take down randomly"

      All that to share a little anecdote about myself. People who don't do violence grossly overestimate how much of it you need and underestimate how horrible it is. I don't think I was ready to conceptualize imperialism until I realized how fucked up it would be if a group of 5 dudes with guns came running at me by virtue of having grappled one dude in competition and losing a couple times.

    • privatized_sun [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      transport pilot

      these soulless drones will be soon replaced with robots, we already have them at airports to refuel planes