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It's satire. Original tweet was about an environmentally friendly radar system from Raytheon
The fact that so many people actually fell for it is worrying not just because reality itself has become satire but because this post should be painfully obvious. Ain't nobody marketing missiles to anyone who cares about the carbon footprint.
Not going to lie. I believed it and thought 'wow between this and the knife missile that greatly reduces civilian casualties Rathiyon are probably most morally upstanding war profiteirs of our era'
now I am just disappointed
The knife missile was actually kinda awesome in its own way tbh. Ridiculous precision for super long distance murder with as few casualties as possible.
It's also frightening that it exists.
the knife missile is so emblematic of the entire military industrial complex. can't stop engaging in unnecessary resource wars due to unnecessary casualties. instead, the military industrial complex will develop and sell a product to allow the killing of specific people in public spaces. and the more you think about the idea of being at a produce stand and someone standing next to you turning into a fine red mist, never to exist in physical space again, the more distopian it seems.
it reminds me of the episode of star trek where they encounter a planet that has eliminated war via coordinated computer simulations and voluntary genocides.
Knife missiles are real things?? Scary stuff. I'm about half way through the Culture series at the moment, never heard of them before..
It's the Hellfire AGM-114R-9X
A while back it was used to kill some dude without the other people in the same house being collateral damage, so it got meme status for a while.
A lot of things are pretty normal today that would've been satire 10 years ago
"environmentally friendly radar system"
so weather radar?
Aircraft shot down over shallow waters can even turn into coral reefs! Wow!
make a better future for the children of the world by blowing up half of it
Killing is good way to reduce your CO2 footprint
Bombs are not environmentally friendly.
Average person's carbon footprint is 7 tons CO2 per year. Killing just one person will make a bomb environmentally friendly.
That's actually a statistical error, Carbon Bezos is an outlier who should not have been counted.
But it's just as easy to blow up with a bomb. So it evens out.
Woke SAMs
You're not going to beat the mosquito or rotavirus when it comes to environmentally friendly killers. Lethality, prodigious. Carbon footprint, minimal (small amount of flatulence, don't worry about it). This comment was sponsored by Gnawed VPN.
Maybe the next iteration can have some seeds mixed in the payload to sprout little trees and plants over the wreckage.
Greenwashing final boss?
Nothing will ever top "clean coal".
Competition for Veridian Dynamics
This reminds me of Jeremy Kauffman's ad, "War is Gay," which advocated for making militarism as gay as possible. The point is that militarism, or zabernism, is considered acceptable and even encouraged as long as DEI quotas are met within the military. https://youtu.be/kdfym6LKpQ0


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