Anyway, please stay safe and don’t be afraid to defend yourself.

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    GovCo owns the drones. The simple fact that they haven’t shot them down means they own them.

    This is a distraction. It’s to distract people because for some reason there was a sudden unexpected explosion of class consciousness.

    Stop talking about the fucking govt drones. Keep scaring billionaires.

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      The one I saw a picture of was a manned helicopter. (Flying in a legal area too … which is why they aren’t being shot down near a military base, because if they were a threat, in air they weren’t allowed to fly in… They would be intercepted or shot down)

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    Please, do NOT shoot at airborn targets, or any target where your are not certain a missed shot will safely land in an empty area.

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    I’m not a gun person, but it seems to me like anyone who claims they can shoot down a drone with a rifle is also revealing themselves to not be a gun person.

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      Why is that? People have hit more challenging targets. If the drone is stationary then it’s a no brainer easy target.

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    More on this splendid human being:

    In now deleted tweets from 2015, it’s clear Rep. Maddox has always held racist beliefs. In an October 2015 tweet, Maddox responded to someone calling President Barack Obama a “coon” by saying that “Obama is not black. He is of African ancestry, not sharing the Black American heritage or experience.” 

    In a March 2015 tweet, Maddox said that “childhood sexual assault and neglect” was the reason for homosexuality and that she blamed the parents and LGBTQ people for their sexual preferences.  

    In a January 2015 tweet she claimed Islam is a “faith about destruction” and that there are no Islamic “hospitals, orphanages or universities.” 

    She’s a genuine shit-person. 100% real human excrement propped up with modern technology to walk and talk sorta like a real human being!

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    Fucking moron. You’ll never hit a drone with that! The ruskies have been trying that for the last couple years with virtually zero success.

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    So there’s a lot of things about these drones being Aliens (and a lot of things about Aliens in general).

    If they really are aliens, do you think beings who travelled here through interstellar space and the technology to come to earth within (we assume) a single lifetime are going to be felled by a fucking gun?

    I don’t think the Aliens are hostile because if they were, we’d be dead by now.

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    It’s a shame that politics have gotten us old women with sniper rifles in the most ugh way possible. Come on we could have grandma shooting ceos, but instead it’s a upper middle class woman vice signaling her love of violent solutions ro problems that need thinking

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    To be fair, the military bases being buzzed drones thing has been going on for months now, long preceding the assassination of Brian Thompson. Like honestly maybe six months or more, I casually peruse the conspiracy subs, because occasionally they get something half-right. (Like the first I heard of COVID was freakouts about what was happening in China) But yeah, the dozens of drones buzzing military bases has been going on since long before Brian Thompson went down.

    It’s more that there’s an excuse to focus on it now to draw attention away from the fucked healthcare system. It troubles me a little bit that people can’t piece together that the media conveniently ignores all kinds of things until they need something else to focus on.


    Finally, you’d have more luck with a laptop and cyberwarfare.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–U.S._RQ-170_incident

    The Iranian government announced that the UAV was brought down by its cyberwarfare unit which commandeered the aircraft and safely landed it, after initial reports from Western news sources disputedly claimed that it had been “shot down”. The United States government initially denied the claims but later President Obama acknowledged that the downed aircraft was a US drone. Iran filed a complaint to the UN over the airspace violation. Obama asked Iran to return the drone. Iran is said to have produced drones based on the captured RQ-170 including the Shahed 171 Simorgh and Shahed Saegheh.

    • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.world
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      I’m sure the gun is cheaper than the optics. A bolt action .308 isn’t really going to set you back much. If she wanted to really fight the drones she’d be rocking an M1A.

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        Fuck it, mount those handheld EMPs on some poles all around your property and slip one in your bag. Wait, is this NCD?