FALGSConaut comments on So apparently the Air Force had a guy die after falling to death in a pointless fast rope demonstration, the game still went on, and the Navy honored his loss by losing the game.

[–] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 50 points 7 hours ago (5 children)

Yea if you take a step back and strip it of the military context it's absolutely horrific that someone died in front of thousands of people and they still went forward with the game. So little value put on human life even in the face of such a public death.

But he was a troop and it was a troop football game so shrug-outta-hecks

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[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 41 points 7 hours ago (1 child)

They earnestly wanted to livestream shooting a defenseless man in a wheelchair for entertainment. They still want to shoot him btw, just without a camera rolling.

This shit's nothing in comparison.

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[–] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 15 points 6 hours ago

That's what I mean, if this was a case of Joe Shmo Civilian dying during the opening ceremonies of a random football game (even though the average football game is already a militarized propaganda event but ignore that for now) it would be horrifying to hear the game went ahead with barely a delay, but it was a member of the military eating shit and dying before the Most Military Football Game they hold so it just ends up being yet another perfect encapsulation of america

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