▲ 407 ▼ Trump Complains He Should Have Won FIVE Nobel Prizes By Now But ‘They Only Give Them To Liberals’ (www.mediaite.com) submitted 1 year ago by Redditsux@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world 70 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] psychadlligoat@piefed.social 1 point 1 year ago (2 children) Drones remove a human being from the chain, making it easier to kill more people more often because it's less real permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] FoxyFerengi@startrek.website 19 points 1 year ago (1 child) This is anecdotal, but 22 years ago I attended an event where the US Air Force proudly played a video of a Predator drone strike. I was a teenager who avidly gamed, and felt horror at what I was forced to witness because I knew these were real people who were dying agonizing deaths To this day I still feel the same emotions when I think of it, and I can't listen to Drowning Pool's "Bodies" because that's the song they played to accompany the footage permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Today@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago Power hungry narcissists vs compassionate, empathetic human permalink fedilink source parent [–] BreakerSwitch@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago Yeah I'm not sure this is true, though I imagine it's only a matter of time. Anecdotally, but I know a guy who definitely has PTSD from, among other things, watching onscreen as such an automated weapon of war homed in on two combatants fleeing, closing in until finally one of them, looking over his shoulder directly at the camera, gave up and stopped running immediately before death. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] FoxyFerengi@startrek.website 19 points 1 year ago (1 child) This is anecdotal, but 22 years ago I attended an event where the US Air Force proudly played a video of a Predator drone strike. I was a teenager who avidly gamed, and felt horror at what I was forced to witness because I knew these were real people who were dying agonizing deaths To this day I still feel the same emotions when I think of it, and I can't listen to Drowning Pool's "Bodies" because that's the song they played to accompany the footage permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Today@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago Power hungry narcissists vs compassionate, empathetic human permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Today@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago Power hungry narcissists vs compassionate, empathetic human permalink fedilink source parent
[–] BreakerSwitch@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago Yeah I'm not sure this is true, though I imagine it's only a matter of time. Anecdotally, but I know a guy who definitely has PTSD from, among other things, watching onscreen as such an automated weapon of war homed in on two combatants fleeing, closing in until finally one of them, looking over his shoulder directly at the camera, gave up and stopped running immediately before death. permalink fedilink source parent