this post was submitted on 07 Nov 2023
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[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The fact this meme implies anything resembling an equal conflict is a pretty bad framing, despite a decent overall sentiment.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Yeah, make the Gaza monkey 50% younger, change the knife into a rock, and put the Israel one on a death star space station. That's closer to reality.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Look, they're terror rock attacks.

The UN guy made sure to be very clear about it about a year back

Beyond parody lmao

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Talking of rocks, I remember low level scraps between youths and border guards in previous years where the Palestinian boys used slings with rocks like David and Goliath. That weapon has a very long history in the region.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Maybe the gun should be bigger

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Except Israel is more of a 500 lb genocidal Silverback gorilla

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

It's not a war, it's a genocide.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Which Rule of Acquisition is this again?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

34: "War is good for business."

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

#10: Greed is eternal.

#45: Expand or die.

I think they've all taken this to heart, like good Ferengi.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

This is what President Eisenhower was warning us about when he talked about the "military-industrial complex." A series of forever wars that existed for no other reason than to benefit corporations and billionaires.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

There is always someone profiting out of a war.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Meanwhile Ukraine is the meme with the boyfriend looking at the girl in the dress. I'm bummed that Israel and Hamas are sucking up all the oxygen.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

And Russia completely missing. Russia is the biggest profiteer of this war by far!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

thats not a war, whats happening is a fucken genocide

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

And on raytheon, what did they do?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Boeing and Raytheon are massive weapon companies that make drones, missiles, targeting systems etc

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Raytheon stocks more than doubled in value this year.

You could say business is booming

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Both are in the arms business. They make money from war.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yup and if they didn't make money, Putin's tanks would have just ravaged Ukraine instead of being blown up all over the place by Javelins.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They make shitty earbuds and sponsor YouTubers and podcast /s

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You joke but I used to get Raycon, Ray-Ban and Raytheon confused at a time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Imagine if they had the same parent company?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Boeing and Raytheon are military contractors, and the US has characteristically kept itself in or around global conflict in order to continue handing out multi-billion dollar contracts to these companies (and more like them.) Weapons/Platform manufacturing and sales is a large portion of our economic output.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Reminds me of -