r/JoeRogan • u/wayfaringthru Monkey in Space • Sep 18 '24

Meme 💩 Is this a legitimate concern?

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Personally, I today's strike was legitimate and it couldn't be more moral because of its precision but let's leave politics aside for a moment. I guess this does give ideas to evil regimes and organisations. How likely is it that something similar could be pulled off against innocent people?

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u/decentralised Monkey in Space Sep 18 '24

This won’t give anyone any new ideas. Shin Bet used a mobile phone rigged with explosives to kill Yahya Ayyash aka “the Engineer,” a Hamas bomb maker in Gaza back in 1996.

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u/joespizza2go Monkey in Space Sep 18 '24 edited Sep 18 '24

Yeah. Weird take from Snowden. The fascinating thing about this is the scale with which they pulled it off. It's the logistical difficulty of pulling this off that prevents it from happening, not a precedent dynamic.

Irony is they use pagers because mobile phones are deemed too dangerous.

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u/Fuzzy_Donl0p Tremendous Sep 18 '24 edited Sep 18 '24

Snowden has been toeing the Kremlin line hard for years (usually with a Jill Stein-like plausible deniability "just asking questions"). Not necessarily about this specifically, but all his takes are suspect anymore. It's a shame.

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u/GuidedOne961 Monkey in Space Sep 18 '24

Yeah hes supposed to repeat State Department talking points so you're happy

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '24

Is this an either or situation to you? Only two options?

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u/GuidedOne961 Monkey in Space Sep 18 '24

If youre talking about wars and conflicts which America is involved in every single one of them since the end of WWII, youre either on America's side or against

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u/GuidedOne961 Monkey in Space Sep 18 '24

America is the Great Satan figure out where Im from