• Samskara@sh.itjust.works
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    10 hours ago

    Though the ongoing drone attacks are said to be part of a protracted campaign to reign in gang activity, there are at least 17 children counted among the dead, as well as 43 adults who are confirmed to have been civilian non-combatants

    Minors can be gang members and murderers.

    Interesting would be to know how many people the gangs killed on the same time. How many people did police kill in other ways in recent years?

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      8 hours ago

      Pretends to care about nuance by positing children could be murderers

      Blatantly ignores 43 confirmed innocents killed mentioned in own comment

        • VoiHyvaLuojaMitaNyt@lemmy.world
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          indeed, very little context and information but you still felt the need to say that the children that were killed were probably gang members and murderers. A bit weird if you ask me, but you do you.

            • VoiHyvaLuojaMitaNyt@lemmy.world
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              8 hours ago

              Yeah I know. That’s why I said that its possible that you are also a gang member and should be droned. I assume you don’t have a problem with that.

                • teslekova@sh.itjust.works
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                  Just asking questions, eh?

                  You might be innocently asking, but be aware that what you did is a common rhetorical technique that right-wing propagandists use to stop people from caring about violence against the innocent.

                  If you had brought up the possibility that the police were, say, killing children for money with their drones, or their drones were being hacked by criminal gangs, or that US mercenary groups - like the one run by Erik Prince - are actually flying them, then you may not have mistakenly furthered the goals of empire.

                • VoiHyvaLuojaMitaNyt@lemmy.world
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                  8 hours ago

                  You were told that 17 children were killed by drones and dismissed that by saying “they could have been gang members.” That implies that you are okay with those children being killed by the drones, because they could have been gang members.

                  I’m just pointing out how absurd it is to say that because anyone anywhere could be a criminal, that doesn’t mean they should be killed by a drone.

                  • Samskara@sh.itjust.works
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                    8 hours ago

                    Just because they are minors, doesn’t make them innocent by default.

                    The whole article is devoid of details on how these drones are used.