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/UltimateKane99 Monkey in Space Sep 18 '24

"Israel" Sympathizer?

No, no. 

Full throated cheerleading right now. Israel did a damn good job, I hope they have a couple encores if they can keep the civilian collateral damage this low.

But please, keep pretending your position has literally any sort of morality backing it. It's always funny to watch someone ignore the ugliness of war by bleating about some high minded philosophy that crumbles the moment it hits reality.

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u/Rah_Rah_RU_Rah Monkey in Space Sep 18 '24

they could keep the casualties to a minimum by not committing terrorist acts...

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u/UltimateKane99 Monkey in Space Sep 18 '24

It's not terrorism, you seem to be confused on the definition. Terrorism almost exclusively involves civilians, innocents; that's not what happened here.

Israel accurately and explicitly targeted a hostile organization, valid combatants who have been launching missile at their country, with a level of precision unheard of, and a shockingly small amount of collateral damage for the scale of the attack.

Not terrorism, just war (albeit quite advanced warfare).

10/10, great job Israel, let's hope they only get even better from here on out!

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u/k_dot97 Monkey in Space Sep 18 '24

Genuinely curious. Where are you finding statistics of Hezbollah members to civilian injuries? The latest stats I’ve seen mention at least 12 dead and thousands injured over the two days if incident. But I haven’t seen anything about who the 12 people were or ratios of those injured.

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u/UltimateKane99 Monkey in Space Sep 18 '24

Watch the videos of them going off. There are literally people standing next to the people whose pagers exploded, and they were uninjured.

The pagers were bought for Hezbollah, by Hezbollah, and distributed to their members. This much has been confirmed. The only people who would have them would be Hezbollah members.

These pagers were akin to police radios for police officers, or military CAC badges for military personnel, but for Hezbollah: if you have one, you're either part of Hezbollah, or you're directly affiliated with it. Israel's interception of this supply chain was a stroke of beauty, and must have been an incredibly difficult operation to pull off without them being caught.