this post was submitted on 07 Nov 2023
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[–] [email protected] 77 points 2 years 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 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago

Maybe the gun should be bigger

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

Except Israel is more of a 500 lb genocidal Silverback gorilla

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

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

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

Which Rule of Acquisition is this again?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

34: "War is good for business."

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

#10: Greed is eternal.

#45: Expand or die.

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

There is always someone profiting out of a war.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

thats not a war, whats happening is a fucken genocide

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (4 children)

And on raytheon, what did they do?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Raytheon stocks more than doubled in value this year.

You could say business is booming

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

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

They make shitty earbuds and sponsor YouTubers and podcast /s

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Imagine if they had the same parent company?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

Reminds me of -