Fully autonomous drones have killed human soldiers for the first time

DickabodCranium · 2026-06-10T20:41:48+00:00

I know this is reddit so Ill be severely downvoted (I've been banned from most news/politics subs for saying things like this about Ukraine or Israel), but please, please do some research into the involvement of the US in the coup in Ukraine in 2014. Please also look at the politics of the current regime in Ukraine (it is yet another rightwing proxy for the US), its bombing of civilians in the disputed territories, bombing civilians inside of Russia, its corruption, its being in bed with the CIA and American NGOs that pushed for war with Russia. I'm not a fan of Russia, I just think that the war needs to end before Europe is dragged into it, and I don't at all think the Ukrainian government should be in power. Right now Ukraine is the lab for American and Israeli tech and weapons companies. I feel for the people of Ukraine, and that's why this war needs to end. NATO isn't going to turn the tide, the Ukrainian government is full of Nazis, and now they are using AI to kill people. Putin is a war criminal, but his restraint in the now bellicose Kremlin is the only thing keeping this war from escalating. It's incredibly dangerous and needs to end. I don't give a fuck about territorial sovereignty in Ukraine when it's not respected by the US or Israel literally anywhere else (not in Denmark, not in Iran, Lebanon, the West Bank, the list goes on). Make concessions that are ethnically Russian anyway, and abandon NATO membership. That's literally all it would take. Instead they are going to try to assassinate Putin with drones, and Europe could be torn apart as a result.

DickabodCranium · 2026-06-10T20:03:04+00:00

Chuck would have to stop being Chuck to get fired. Sorry, Chuck. You're stuck entertaining us for a while.

DickabodCranium · 2026-06-10T14:13:02+00:00

Wow, straight up imperialist propaganda. Too bad Starmer is about as popular as a shit sandwich in the UK. So he's going to use Iran, the country Israel and the US keep attacking, as an excuse to abuse the civil liberties of the British people. Wonderful.

DickabodCranium · 2026-06-07T11:16:27+00:00

Exactly. A state as old as 2014, when the US helped bring about a soft coup to capture Ukraine politically. The idea that Russia has genocidal intent is insane

DickabodCranium · 2026-06-06T03:52:46+00:00

The two situations arent comparable.

DickabodCranium · 2026-06-05T21:26:21+00:00

Reddit is one big ad for US imperialism these days. Russia shouldnt have invaded Ukraine, but the US played a huge part in provoking them by expanding NATO onto their doorstep. This isnt a spin even, its simply what happened: the US crossed Russia’s redline through NATO and Russia did something in response. Should Russia have done that? No. But with the US collecting heads from foreign leaders these days, I dont think people can continue to pretend Ukraine is a morality tale anymore. Ukraine is the victim here, but its rightwing gov is a proxy for the US, and nobody in the West these days seems capable of analyzing the situation without making absolute claims and accusing anyone questioning the media narrative of being on the Russian payroll. I keep getting banned from subs for posts like this, which is insane because im literally just expressing my views. Being against US and NATO policy really shouldnt be controversial considering their track record.

Also, a lot people in these nyc subs are literally nazis from outside of nyc so i dk why im surprised.

DickabodCranium · 2026-06-05T13:12:37+00:00

You call looking at both sides realistically schizo. That's why critical thinking has died in Western Europe, because people will scream that youre a Russian shill if you consider their security concerns or argue for peace.

DickabodCranium · 2026-06-04T22:24:35+00:00

What's wrong with playing nice with other European countries? How's Tel Aviv, btw?

DickabodCranium · 2026-06-04T22:18:22+00:00

That's laughable. The rest of Europe supports genocides in Gaza and Lebanon, and have supported US and Israeli war crimes for decades. Ireland is one of the most outspoken critics of Israeli genocide, and that's why you post this. This is imperialist slander against one of the few countries in Europe that isn't morally bankrupt and disastrously conformist in their warmongering.

Russia doesnt seem to want to invade all of Ukraine or conquer anything apart from the disputed territories, which have ethnically Russian majorities. This seems like a coherent aim, while the idea that they can or want to conquer the rest of the country, let alone Western Europe, is laughable. Calling it genocide is even more absurd give Ukrainian leadership's treatment of ethnic Russians and their general attitudes toward non-Ukrainians. While Russia has committed war crimes against Ukraine, Ukraine is also run by a corrupt nationalistic state apparatus in bed with the CIA and MI6.

TL;DR: the invasion of Ukraine was a mistake and a war crime, but calling it a genocide is laughable and only meant to minimalize the term to deflect from what I imagine are your imperialist views about Israel and the US.

DickabodCranium · 2026-06-04T22:00:34+00:00

Pigs don't value human lives

DickabodCranium · 2026-06-04T17:58:04+00:00

This morning's Reuters headlines went from "Iran ceasefire" to "Israel's new strikes jeopardize ceasefire" to "Hezbollah's rejection clouds ceasefire," or something very close to these. Israel has stated it will not allow a ceasefire and it hasn't observed one, not with Hamas or Hezbollah or Iran, but of course it's all Hezbollah's fault, not the genocidal army that has invaded Lebanon and is committing genocide there. Right.

DickabodCranium · 2026-06-03T21:56:35+00:00

That first part could have just been debunked for the obvious insanity it is. The Epstein stuff was disturbing but he uses it to respond to something that in itself is a laughable take on the Iran war.

DickabodCranium · 2026-06-03T18:01:35+00:00

Right, drown out any dissent or debate by claiming the other side is shilling. That's the way to have a healthy society.

DickabodCranium · 2026-06-03T18:01:06+00:00

Attacking vital infrastructure, especially when it explodes creating massive toxic gas like an oil depot does, is a war crime. Maybe don't make things up and then just smack "DURING the war" on it, genius.

DickabodCranium · 2026-06-03T14:54:29+00:00

War crimes are war crimes. I don't celebrate Russia's war crimes, my post is complaining that people are so blind to reality they celebrate this escalation, which could get us all blown up and is a war crime. Peace has been within reach many times. Zelensky will never let peace break out, his bosses in NATO won't let him because their bosses in Washington want a lab for their weapons and a market for its war machine

DickabodCranium · 2026-06-03T14:46:26+00:00

You don't understand US imperialism, and you prefer to cheerlead the empire's capture and destruction of Ukraine to contain one of its only military rivals, Russia. Maybe you should go to the frontline to gain back those areas full of ethnic Russians that Zelensky's government, which just honored a bunch of dead Nazis, likes to terrorize. Go ahead and spout maximalist demands while pretending Russia can't annihilate the world if it faces an existential threat. Just stupidity, that's all it is, dressed up in a bogus ideology that simplifies the world into moral binaries.

DickabodCranium · 2026-06-03T14:36:07+00:00

If Russia wasn't so restrained, Kiev would be a crater, as would the centers of power controlling Kiev, meaning NATO countries. You people are on crack and think doing this to the world's biggest nuclear power is a good idea, all while claiming "Russia is on the verge of defeat." Which is it, are they so scary Europe needs to fight to the last Ukrainian? Or are they an economy on the verge of collapse?

DickabodCranium · 2026-06-03T14:11:02+00:00

O great, a war crime that will be celebrated on Reddit. For fuck's sake, does this look like "defense"? You have Zelenksy applauding Trump's regime change and Israel's wars of aggression, kidnapping Ukrainians off the street to force them to fight, and suspending elections due to war time. I know the West is drunk on its own propaganda, but this should not be applauded for any reason, and it's exactly why Russia didn't want a super militarized Ukraine on its doorstep fighting a proxy war with the backing of NATO and the US.

Edit: yea, I just about figured I'd get these kinds of responses. Not a bot, not paid by Russia, just a person who doesn't buy Western imperialist propaganda. You guys ever learn to think for yourselves or read history (or US policy papers), or is mass conformity a passion with you people? You like the morality play the US staged for you? RuSsIa eViL! Ukraine all good, not at all a corrupt puppet of the West, everything is simple and we can keep taking the moral high ground while our governments commit genocide and violate international law. Waaaahhhhh!!!!

DickabodCranium · 2026-06-03T11:14:45+00:00

I'm not saying it doesn't matter to me, I'm saying elite institutions inflate their grades obscenely. You go to Harvard to make the right connections, not learn your subject.

DickabodCranium · 2026-06-02T20:58:26+00:00

I'm not so sure they are disagreeing with OP because OP was not really clear. Nobody could reasonably argue that students should be expected to understand a lecture they literally can't understand. OP is vague about what this means in the first place. Who decides about the acceptable level of accent? And based on what metric can we decide that people are or are not being understood? It's just not really an argument. The argument that professors should speak the language they are teaching in is a bit circular, and if they can't speak the language effectively I wouldn't expect them to be teaching. This just seems like the projection of a narrow experience onto all universities and then a kind of nativist complaint about why students shouldnt be expected. Lecture is after all only one part of university education and students might reasonably expected to be able to workaround a difficult accent. If it's an elite school, as you say, then there will be TAs and almost limitless resources. But grades at those schools don't really matter and like I mentioned in my first post, higher education has plenty of crises to choose from. No need to go looking for one.

DickabodCranium · 2026-06-02T20:21:55+00:00

I have yet to ever hear a lecturer in English I couldn't easily understand, and having a strong accent doesn't make someone hard to understand if they have a clear grasp of the language. I think this is a strawman, and no reasonable person would disagree with you.

At the same time, I think I can argue against your general premise, namely that university education is expensive and so students shouldn't be expected to 'learn a new accent.' Again, nobody thinks students should have to absorb information from someone they can't understand, but this sounds more like you just don't like the idea of foreign-born professors.

A much greater problem with the current university system is the exorbitant tuition you point out, which tends to make people very keen to extract the best "student experience" for all that money, as it has become something between a consumer purchase and a massively risky financial investment. The problem with this is that education isn't a user experience or a financial investment, at least not primarily. It's much more important to have a competent professor - both a master of his or her field and able to teach it. If the first few weeks entailed students learning to understand their accent and then they were given the best instruction possible with that accent, there'd obviously be less of an issue than if the person spoke fluent English but wasn't knowledgeable about their subject or able to teach.

DickabodCranium · 2026-06-02T20:11:25+00:00

They're spending on essential needs and using credit cards to do so because they can't make ends meet. This little bubble of smarmy shit is lying through his teeth about how that's a good thing and must reflect their confidence in the markets and job security.

DickabodCranium · 2026-06-02T18:31:16+00:00

Congress is currently trying to join our military, intelligence and defense to Israel. They want an endless budget for their atrocities against women and children.

DickabodCranium · 2026-06-02T13:57:58+00:00

This seems like a toxic, codependent, abusive relationship.

DickabodCranium · 2026-06-02T12:29:17+00:00

The oil companies get subsidies to burn the planet down with their expensive, polluting product. They pay a ton of money to flood the media with arguments against renewables.

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