“Press with both hands”

…just when you thought this timeline couldn’t get much weirder.

  • JokeDeity
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    66 months ago

    I can’t think of anything funnier than Trump blowing up from a pager.

      • @[email protected]
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        26 months ago

        The problem with incarcerating corrupt populists is that a sympathetic politician may vary well release them on the future. Korea has charged and imprisoned former leaders only to have subsequent ones free them.

    • @[email protected]
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      146 months ago

      In a different circumstance definitely. In this one though it’s most likely Bibi taunting everyone else and shouting “Nyeh nyeh! I got away with it!”

      • @[email protected]
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        86 months ago

        I mean, the pager attack was a masterstroke. Getting away with it is underselling it. Never before has a highly targeted attack like this been performed. I can’t imagine a better way to attack a terrorist organization this deeply embedded within society. It certainly beats bombs and ground troops by every metric.

          • @[email protected]
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            16 months ago

            What exactly makes an attack on devices that were exclusively used by members of Hezbollah a war crime?

            • @[email protected]
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              96 months ago

              Incorrect premise. A pager is an ordinary consumer electronic device that can and did find its way into innocent hands.

              • @[email protected]
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                16 months ago

                Not this one. Israel created a shell company that sold these particular pagers only to Hezbollah (reportedly at a profit). Neither did Hezbollah buy these in random shops nor were they ever distributed to random shops. The network they used was also exclusively created by and for Hezbollah, not any civilians, so even if civilians had wanted to use these devices, they would not have been able to. Hezbollah bought them in bulk and distributed them to their members, believing they would be a safe way to communicate without tracking, since most pagers are one-way devices.

                • @[email protected]
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                  56 months ago

                  I mean, I wasn’t there, but I read that it did hurt some people who weren’t directly associated with the group. Some children and a medic, apparently?

                • _cryptagion [he/him]
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                  36 months ago

                  You can always tell who is a liberal by listening to them justify killing a few kids for the greater good.

                • @[email protected]
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                  56 months ago

                  Indiscriminate is the correct word. They were detonated all at the same time regardless of where their targets location at the time. Civilians were killed, including children.