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[–] 0x0@infosec.pub 62 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 35 points 4 weeks ago

Rest in pieces.

[–] TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca 33 points 4 weeks ago

Makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

[–] Danarchy@lemmy.nz 23 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

There’s a Gilbert and Sullivan style song in this headline somewhere:

Find the Kherson Oblast group and you could kill a hundred troops

Hundred troops?

Hundred troops. Kill them while they eat their soup

Now call the corp’ral on the phone and and have him load up fifty drones

Fifty drones!?

Fifty drones!! And aim them for the Russian domes

Etc

[–] kmartburrito@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Danarchy@lemmy.nz 1 points 3 weeks ago

The incredulous officer questioning the troop and drone numbers in the song has an enormous mustache btw

[–] ViscloReader@lemmy.world 20 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (5 children)

Oh my god, I get that they would've later perpetrated death and fear to innocents...

Why am I internally "cheering" for 100 dead people.

Fuck this shit

[–] TotallyWorthLife@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

For me, I'm not "cheering" for 100 dead people, but for the weakening of the agressor's army. It sucks so much that it is by death, but that is war... war sucks and shouldn't happen, but here we are.

[–] Gonzako@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

Man, this war stuff is so fucked up. Seeing drone footage is haunting.

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Because they were bad people.

[–] VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Where they, though? People drafted and sent to the front generally have few options. I get that people dying is what happens in war but casting all individual soldiers of one side as "bad", of the other as "good" just serves to dehumanise people and excuse atrocities.

This was a legitimate military target, but I don't think anyone should cheer about a hundred dead people.

[–] nodiratime@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I doubt FSB workers are your typical cannon fodder draftee.

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Of course we should. Russians elected their leaders, followed and cheered them for decades and supported most of their decisions including this war. Don't get fooled into thinking Russians are just poor, innocent people send to war by their mad leader. It's an underdeveloped, sick country that uses violence and terror to get what they want. They got what they deserved.

[–] VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Demonising a whole people like this is in itself wrong.

What is your supposed solution, then? How does one deal with tens of millions of people who are supposedly evil and wrong?

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 weeks ago

This is the paradox of tolerance in action.

I'm sorry, but the sooner you understand this the better; death is a natural part of life, and life does not always have intrinsic value.

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 0 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

You take away their ability to harm others. In this case you destroy their ability to wage wars. You sanction the shit out of them so that they don't have enough money to arm themselves and you destroy whatever military they have now. No one is proposing extermination, they just have to become harmless. When they are civilized enough to re-join the international community they are welcomed to do so.

[–] VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I would argue that those sanctions, if general, shouldn't include necessities like food or medicine. Also, I feel that sanctions against specific figures in the government might be relatively effective (many countries are doing this already). Make it difficult to enjoy the fortune they stole from their people.

I also don't like the idea of sanctions that aren't based on specific/ongoing actions, but the existence of a certain government/regime, though I see where you are coming from.

I would also still argue that the Russian people chose that government, back when they did choose, because they didn't see many other options, and keeping them in perpetual destitution long term isn't likely to change that.

[–] Zabjam@feddit.org 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

And what's the difference between that and the approach that was taken with Germany after WW1, which was a contribution to the rise of the Nazis?

[–] saimen@feddit.org 1 points 3 weeks ago

After WW1 Germany was made the scapegoat for the whole war because they lost. It's not like they actually had aggressively started WW1 but they were treated as if, which was way too much and german people felt treated unfairly rightfully.

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 1 points 3 weeks ago

The difference would be that if they start growing their army again we would do a preemptive strike, not just sit and watch.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe 3 points 3 weeks ago

Hundreds of people die every day for far stupider and much less fair reasons, like pedestrians murdered by car drivers.

[–] Wataba@sh.itjust.works -2 points 3 weeks ago

Ill cheer externally for 100 dead American soldiers if it makes you feel better.

Thugs serving a pedophile tyrant deserve no sympathy.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't like violence, but I support killing invaders.

[–] axx@slrpnk.net 8 points 3 weeks ago

I think it's a reasonable position to both dislike violence and support it in certain conditions.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 12 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Well, that sounds like a good start.

It's a good thing if they continue to degrade Russian air defenses. More drones coming after Puto!

Let's hope that, along the way, they take out a few troll farms, too, and do us all a favor.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago

I’m cheering for the FSB getting pantsired.

I haven’t read anything lately about replacement rate for pantsirs but

  • they’re expensive
  • probably hard for Russia to replace
  • make Ukraine attacks more difficult

Every anti-aircraft asset gone is a good step in reducing russias ability to keep the war going

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmings.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

That's the way to do it, take out the HQ, leadership, hard to replace high level personnel, and equipment. It will take time to establish a new HQ, get people sorted out, install new gear, figure out what Intel is lost, and get back on solid ground.

Meanwhile, Ukraine can keep pounding. I've heard that arms manufacturers have made deals with Ukraine to test their gear in battlefield conditions, so they are getting to play with cutting edge gear against Russia's second rate gear that was built by their corrupt government.

[–] HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com 5 points 3 weeks ago

Bad day for pootles.

[–] grimpy@lemmy.myserv.one 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

lazy ass sons of dogs fake masked “law enforcement officers “

[–] grimpy@lemmy.myserv.one 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] grimpy@lemmy.myserv.one 7 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

got mixed up with a post about ICE arresting farmworkers in Oregon

[–] ManixT@lemmy.world 7 points 4 weeks ago

These ones suck too. Close enough 😬

[–] grimpy@lemmy.myserv.one 0 points 4 weeks ago

Fight the power!

[–] prish@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 weeks ago