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I think you've missed a particularly oblique piece of sarcasm.
by JonnieCache 13y ago
I think you've missed a particularly oblique piece of sarcasm.
- Theodores 13y agoThank you! Sarcasm and humour in general is usually not the way we deal with serious things like the war, even here on HN. This is a pity as humour, even if it is British rather than American (or German) is a great way to make big, scary, difficult-to-understand-things a bit easier to talk about. It is a tactic and we should be taking the piss out of the politicians and the spies, rendering them to being pathetic 'Peeping Toms', tantamount to being dirty perverts, lowest of the low. That said... ...I am genuinely surprised at how we have been able to kill whomever we like in The War Against Terror with a lack of reprisals from those we bombed. I am sure soldiers in Afghanistan do not see it that way, but for the folks in UK/USA there is practically zero terror threat. To all intents and purposes those we have attacked and tortured are like unwitting subjects for a follow up to the MKULTRA type of things that went on 50 years ago. I do wonder if there are those in the military that see it that way, testing new weapons by killing a few people with them. Fortunately those we bomb are people as opposed to complete psychopaths, so they don't have the mindset of those in the arms business.
- mjolk 13y agoThe near-rambling presentation suggests to me that the author would only claim sarcasm if the post was not well received.