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What about the peace loving Ukranians? Says saber rattling man, looking to make a quick buck (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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"We all have views and opinions, and everyone's entitled to protest, but we're also entitled to go about our business and we do it peacefully," Mr Reddy said.

"They're out there talking about Palestine and what's happening out there. I understand their point of view [but] who's talking about Ukraine?

"We're here to defend democracy and to enable the peace loving people of Ukraine to stand up to Russian oppression. Why is no one talking about that? It's only about Palestine for some reason."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-12/inside-the-land-forces-expo-it-s-business-as-usual/104344542

fucking cretins

The ex minister for defence was at this expo, now on the board of some defence company, didnt get alot of attention though

fucking gross seeing so many good journalists trying not to salivate over the big boy toys while they put to you: dont you care for the peace loving Ukrainian people?

a quick search shows the australian grubernment provided 70mil to Palestine (extremely begrudgingly, funding stops anytime israle says boo) in the last 12 months, and more than 150mil to Ukraine

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

we're also entitled to go about our business and we do it peacefully,

Says the man standing next to a minigun while at the murder machine expo

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

All the reporting has been fucking obscene, and everyone I've overheard talking about this has bought it hook, line and stinker

police commissioner telling reporters he wants protesters to go home and think about they way they acted after how they were treated

they were shooting mainstream journalists with definitely not rubber bullets (foam bullets, phew)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

police commissioner telling reporters he wants protesters to go home and think about they way they acted after how they were treated

Oh, I went home and thought about my actions alright

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago

We're here to defend democracy

hitler-detector Beep beep beep beep beep

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

We're here to defend democracy

wojak-nooo 'WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY "MASS MURDER" AND "GLOBAL MISERY"??? ITS MUH WESTERN DEMOCRACY!!!'

and to enable the peace loving people of Ukraine to stand up to Russian oppression.

War is peace...

Why is no one talking about that? It's only about Palestine for some reason.

wojak-nooo 'STOP DRAWING ATTENTION TO THE FASCIST SCUM WE ARE ARMING TO DO A GENOCIDE!!! WHATABOUT MUH UKRAINE FOREVER WAR?!'

This is an actual example of virtue signalling, some slimy fucking subhuman arms dealers gesturing at "MUH DEMOCRACY" and "MUH UKRAINE" to cynically justify profiting off of the bloody war that is destroying the very country that they pretend to care about and draw attention away from the actual genocide they enable.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (3 children)

OMFG i am going to shit myself laughing at that 'minigun drone', not only is there absolutely ZERO ammo supply on that drone, i don't even think is has the car-battery sized battery that spins the barrels! Neither would likely fit on a drone that small anyway! do you know how fast those things shoot? you would need like an oil drum sized ammo container to shoot for more than like .5 seconds even with the relatively small 5.56 bullets this thing probably uses! i doubt this thing could carry even 1 or 2 standard ammo cans let alone a huge ammo belt drum! I am in absolute awe at the level of baldfaced grifting these defence companies can get away with LMFAO susie-laugh

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It looks like it's at best in .22 LR too, based on how tiny those barrels are

Russia better watch out

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

i would imagine its 5.56, which is .223, which is still quite small for anything like a heavy machinegun which is the closest role something like this would fit. airplanes (like the AC-10 warthog for example) often have 30mm rotary cannons mounted in the fuselage, the 30mm shells fired from the full sized cannon at high rates of fire can take out tanks. in fact this drone gun looks even smaller than the M134 'minigun' you see mounted on the sides of helicopters for 'door gunners' or in the movie Predator, which uses 7.62x51mm NATO ammo, full sized bullets closer to a hunting rifle bullet than an assault rifle's intermediate cartridge. 7.62 is often used by western armies for HMGs and other larger-than-an-assault-rifle weapons like snipers, DMRs, etc. Even in the movie Predator, with a minigun modified to be carried, the actor could not carry the battery the gun requires to operate (which was wired up his pants leg) and even with an artificially reduced rate of fire (from 6,000 RPM to 1,250 RPM) the enormous backpack could only hold 4-5 seconds of ammunition supply.

maybe its something like the XM214 Microgun? which requires a team of 2 to carry and operate like a heavy machine gun (usually mounted on a tripod or vehicle)

and yea the recoil would almost certainly tip this go-kart over, especially with the gun mounted that high up. maybe if it had like ground spikes to stabilize itself it wouldn't?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Not to mention even ignoring the power/ammo supply issues if that thing fired the recoil would either send it rolling backwards or tip immediately

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

wouldn't the recoil eventually snap the pitiful stand they used to slap the minigun onto that glorified RC car too

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

defend democracy

Lol, lmao

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Yeah other than all of the Westen political leadership, the corporate press, and the majority of Western libs, who is talking about Ukraine!?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

I promise you there would be peace in occupied Palestine if the government had donated the $20 billion in arms to Gaza instead of Israel.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Is this the same expo that Boy Boy went to? It looks like that one was in Brisbane, though.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Nah from what i can see LandForces is always in vic, same energy though

wish people had tried more stuff like that instead of chanting near the front door on the day

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: