• hume_lemmy@lemmy.ca
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    15 hours ago

    In this corner, we have The Ruling Party, armed with a Predator drone carrying laser-guided Hellfire missiles targeted from three miles away using IR imaging! And in the opposite corner, we have Jim Jimmy-Bob Roberts, with his daddy’s AR-15, loaded for bear with, yes, three full magazines!

    I tell you Sam, I’ve got a good feeling about Jimmy’s chances tonight, he’s definitely got pluck. But before we start the fight, a word from our sponsors…

    • the_crotch@sh.itjust.works
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      5 hours ago

      That must be why the US invasion of Afghanistan was such a success and achieved all of their goals in a timely fashion.

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      7 hours ago

      You do understand that starting a civil war means that hellfire missile is also blowing up the neighbors house as well and they might have been sided with the ruling party? You need boots on the ground to patrol and take territory, a drone cannot do that.

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      12 hours ago

      Do Vietnam vs the US next. Or the Taliban. Or any other time a guerilla force defeated a military with superior firepower.