SpaceCowboy

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[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 days ago

Why am I now picturing a chain smoking Forrest Gump? "Life is like a pack of cigarettes, you never know what's gonna blow up."

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Tankies are permanently stuck in backwards day. Left is right and right is left. They do this because they're just fascists that don't like to be associated with other fascists. So they call their fascist group "leftist", but they hate democracy, liberalism, the jews, etc just as much as any other fascist.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago

I've heard a carwash will take them out.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 28 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah there's no better reason to use jury nullification than when government wants to kill a guy for political reasons.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca -3 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, if the pro-Palestinian movement was a non-violent resistance movement I'd be on board 100%. But unfortunately that's not what it is.

Odai Nasser Saadi Al-Rubai is someone we should support, someone who wanted peace. But he's dead now and those who claim to want peace for Palestine seem to want to erase him from existence. He was inconvenient to their narrative so they will pretend he didn't exist.

How can someone claim to be to be pro-Palestinian if they have no empathy for Odai Nasser Saadi Al-Rubai, a Palestinian that wanted there to be an end to this war? It doesn't seem like a pro-Palestinian movement to me, it just looks like an anti-Israel movement.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 19 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

Have you seen a photo of what tanks in combat look like these days? They have cages welded on top of them. Also the hatches can be closed. A lot of tankers like to have the hatch open so the commander can have have more visibility, but it's not a necessity.

There have been ways to take out a tank with missiles for a long time now. The reason why they're still used is that air defenses exist and nothing beats the cost efficiency of moving a big gun close to the enemy and firing a lot of cheap ammunition at them.

Also are you going to tell civilians they can move back into their towns based solely on drones? If the civilians are behind a bunch of tanks, they're safe because the drones will go after the tanks before going after the civilians. You need soldiers to hold ground. A soldier in a tank is going to be harder for a drone to kill than a soldier that's not in a tank.

Yes drones are effective, but drones can't hold ground and keep civilians safe.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago

We all hope for peace, but some of us understand that Hamas is incompatible with peace.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Yes because Russia will build more tanks and other equipment in the next decade. Not a problem if Europe builds up too. But that will be a problem if Europe does nothing.

If Russia were an immediate threat, Europe would have no choice but to give Trump whatever he wants so the US will protect Europe. But with Russian forces being decimated by this war, Europe has the opportunity to build it's own arms industry to be able to produce it's own weapons to be able to counter Russia in a decade's time.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 25 points 3 weeks ago (11 children)

Drones don't hold ground, soldiers do. Soldiers that have tanks are going to be more effective than those without them.

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