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Lockhead Martin clothes. (lemmygrad.ml)
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[–] 33 points 3 years ago (2 children)

why is the delivery taking so long for my genocide-themed clothes

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  • [–] 16 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Unironically because of the Ukraine war this time?

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago

    Sorry guys, we made a mistake and accidentally loaded all the t-shirts into a Javelin missile we sent to Ukraine. We only found out when the post office let us know that the boxes we were sending to you all tested for explosives! Unfortunately we can't issue refunds because we spent the money already on trafficking orphan slaves to convert some surplus canvas waterboarding hoods into messenger bags.

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  • [+] -33 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    FWIW Lockheed Martin is right now part of stopping an ongoing attempted genocide.

    (Yeah, that's right, they are the people behind the beloved HIMARS system.)

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  • [–] 18 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    genocide is when you consistently try to avoid civilian casualties

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I don't mind defining all war as genocide. USA gets to be the world's most genocidal nation either way.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I think that's too reductive; genocide is somewhat vaguely defined, but I've always seen it as systematically trying to eradicate some large group of civilians; AFAIK the Russian military isn't deliberately killing those who aren't fighting back (not even if they're Nazis). On the other hand, maybe "genocide" is just a flawed term since it's based on presumed intent rather than results

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Jokes aside it's a good conversation. It is a vague term and continues to be the world's most popular word for the greatest crime imaginable. What I find interesting is that mass killing of people of a particular political ideology still falls out of the bounds of the ever growing definition of genocide.100,000 communists in South Korea are systematically killed and it doesn't capture the imagination quite the same if it can't be called genocide.

    I'm not arguing that genocide should be a more vague term. I feel like a need a word for mass killing of largely unarmed demographics that is more flexible.

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