limonfiesta

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That a lot of words just to say, “Sorry, that I mischaracterized your comments”.

They were designed during the Cold War to fight the Soviets.

The Soviets were primarily a land power and their way of war was mass formation of tanks followed closely by mass formations of troops.

I understand perfectly well why much the world has signed on to the treaties banning them, but I also know what they were designed to do, and it wasn’t to commit war crimes.

It just so happens, they’re awfully good at it, similar to landmines.

But putting aside that miniature history lesson, my comment was matter of fact. It was not endorsing their use, much less minimizing their impact on civilian populations, which I also called attention to.

You skimmed a comment, saw what you wanted to see, and then tried to attack me based on your erroneous interpretation of said comment.

Like I said, you’re not a serious person.

If anything, the system failure, from the point of view of the system’s architects, is that it’s not killing enough of them fast enough.

Any reason why you couldn’t be bothered to read the rest of that sentence, where I talked about their other use as anti-personnel weapons…?

Or what about my opening sentence where I said that targeting civilians is a war crime, no matter the weapon used?

You’re not a serious person.

Targeting civilians is a war crime no matter the weapons platform used.

The use of cluster munitions is not illegal, as none of the parties here are signatories to the international treaties prohibiting their use.

They are designed as anti-material weapons, whereas a regular cruise or ballistic missile might blow up a building, these are meant to destroy equipment and kill personnel over a wider area.

Their negative connotations come from the weapons mechanism which is releasing miniature bomblets over the targeted area. Some of which have been known to fail to detonate immediately, and subsequently kill or maime civilians who come across them later.

A hospital security guard called the police to notify them of this patients medical situation.

That guard doesn’t just need to be fired, they need to suffer, and that should begin by them being publicly named, shamed, and ostracized.

They should never know peace again.

Doubling down on misinterpreting my words is pretty wild yo.

I said nothing of the sort.

I said fuck the Washington Post and fuck anyone who writes for them, but most of all fuck their crocodile tears.

They are explicitly a mouthpiece for the billionaire class and vocally anti-working class, which means they support the same system that they are now receiving some blowback from.

This is a leopard’s ate my face situation, and one doesn’t have to hate freedom of the press, or whatever else you’re accusing me of, to recognize and acknowledge that.

Fuck the Washington Post and fuck anyone who writes for them.

You don’t get to be an oligarch’s mouthpiece hell-bent on destroying the working class, and then get self-righteous when you get hit with some blowback from the same shitty government that your masters support and enable.