https://www.businessinsider.com/pilot-becomes-first-us-woman-score-air-to-air-kill-2024-7
Was it though? Rewatching it I realize it's lib at best, conservative at worst. They portray unions negatively, they crap on Castro, and they do glorify the troops unashamedly. I don't think this scene was intended to portray the soldier negatively.
Edit: also they portray kissinger and Bush Sr positively
I just saw this episode and it is definitely satire. It's stated very straight, rather than a clear joke, but it's definitely making fun of this exact type of article/propaganda.
It's been awhile since I've seen those episodes but from what I remember, the portrayal of Kissinger and HW are far from positive, Kissinger comes across as a weirdo that dropped his glasses in the toilet and spaces out mid conversation so he can monologue in his head, and HW is portrayed as a vindictive neurotic prick.
Um, Shooting down an unmanned drone doesnt count as a "kill"
Like when they shot down that weather balloon does that count as a kill too lol?
The F22 that shot down the weather balloon now has a balloon painted in the cockpit, so I guess??
You know what let them cope, Russia also awarded the pilot after downing that reaper drone too lol.
Yeah but that Russian pilot did some sick ass maneuver without shooting it, that guy is cool as hell
Oh my god I never looked at the specifics. The footage is so cool
Imagining some US drone pilot nerd throwing their PS2 controller across the room adds a cherry on top
They pissed over it and it crashed and the same day few banks also crashed, then they made a hispanic laugh meme about it, that's advanced techniques.
I think they were trying to get it counted as a kill, yeah. Dunno what decision was made in the end.
The F22's only A2A kills are in fact, balloons
Hopefully soon the first US female aviator to rain down over the red sea in beautiful tiny pieces
News then be like "Look at these evil Houthis evilly butchering our smol bean aviator who was just minding her own business"
Actually it was an unrelated malfunction. American planes are never shot down 🙂
Cue a million thinkpieces about Arab/Muslim misogyny and whether they can ever truly move into the 21st century and make space for women and girls and maybe we should go over there and
civilize themintroduce democracythey will pretend she ejected and lived so they can tell lurid stories about what might be happening to her while detained by the Yemenis
Hopefully they get the first woman to get blown up by a SAM too
What air-to-air kill? They shot down passenger plane? Oh, a drone. How much that flight cost compared to a drone?
It also led two self-defense strikes on targets in Houthi-controlled Yemen
I wish happy getting self defenced to all imperialist pigs.
Nothing screams self defence like dropping bombs imperviously from above on a country halfway around the world.
Read this in a muffled transatlantic radio voice for the proper vibe
"First female Nazi to defeat a force of partisan fighters, Nazis say (their town to be decimated soon in further response)"
Something something missives of empire etc etc when something called "business insider" is like "CHECK OUT THIS COOL MILITARY PILOT."
