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    1 year ago

    I’d like to see more substantial consequences for consciously and deliberately sabotaging a war operation using a service the pentagon paid him to provide.

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        1 year ago

        Don’t worry, I’m sure our leaders are formulating a strongly worded condemnation of their own. One might even venture to suggest they could hold a hearing about it, or assign a task force to investigate! Canceling his government contracts or charging him with anything are obviously off the table, though.

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      1 year ago

      Well, he’s not a representative of any state, so technically assassination wouldn’t be an act of war…

      I’m not advocating, just pointing out that as an individual, his position is a bit more precarious than I think he realizes.

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        1 year ago

        And as much as I liked President Obama, he did set the precedent by targeting and killing a (bad) US citizen.

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            1 year ago

            Anwar al-Awlaki. Most things that I’m seeing about him are that he is the first US citizen targeted by a drone strike but I remember it being a big deal that he was the first US citizen assassinated at all.

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              1 year ago

              First that we know off.

              Although I oppose drone strikes and Obama was the king of them, this fella was in Yeman at the time which is a bit different than wigging off your citizens on home soil.

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                1 year ago

                Um… Obama isn’t the king of drone strikes, the Trump administration surpassed the total number Obama era drone strikes in under two years IIRC.

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                  1 year ago

                  Seems you’re correct. I stand corrected.

                  Not that it matters but I am not American and have no dog in this race. I liked Obama and thought trump was… different.

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                You might be thinking of how Obama was the “king of making them safer” because before him they just let it blow up Kids and crap willy-nilly, and he was tired of seeing that stuff so he made them create a less explosive more knife like drone for less casualties.

                The flying ginsu.