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David Anaxagoras@davidanaxagoras.com |
We never ask this about bombs.
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@luckyotter.bsky.social
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a better question is why not from trucks
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Guy
@e-warren.bsky.social
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Maybe next time use ups.
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Halaylah the Elder, of No House
@halaylah.bsky.social
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Someone obviously did, because now we have drones.
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Ghost Dansing ☠️ 👻👽
@ghostdansing.bsky.social
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astute observation. just sayin'
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Jon
@jonrox.bsky.social
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One would think it would be cheaper to transport aid through the allied country that the US is propping up and supplying military, financial and political aid but alas, that's a bridge too far..
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CircusNoBread
@berkeleyeve.bsky.social
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🎯
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@ericmn.bsky.social
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The US military should just drive it in, to save money.
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Alex Karp (he/him)
@autistic.af
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I’ve got an idea. Bombs, but instead of explosive material on the inside, we fill them with food and supplies. We could even send them to the Israeli military so that we don’t have to drop them ourselves.
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Montgomery Granger
@mjgranger1.bsky.social
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The fact that it has to be dropped from planes speaks more about the ineffectiveness of bombs than the aid does.
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Rasmus
@raxha.bsky.social
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What’s the better way? Firing subway sandwiches out of artillery canons? 🤔
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@kbethany.bsky.social
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Shouldn’t the article be… “airdropping aid is expensive and inefficient, are there better options?”
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Charles Bastille
@charlesbastille.bsky.social
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We hear a lot about late stage capitalism. But have we reached late stage journalism, too? I realize the two are related.
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Jolly Jonny ❤️🇮🇱❤️
@defendingthewest.bsky.social
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Incorrect. Google “dropping bombs is expensive why do it?”
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MacMog, Annihilator
@macmog.bsky.social
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Wondering what percent of American engineers work in the war supply field.
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William Holz
@freewilliam.bsky.social
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I do not agree with these priorities.
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AverageMann
@averagemann.bsky.social
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Put B24s flying and throw aid like if it was the 1940s
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Kenyesi Uume
@turdlet.bsky.social
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Because they are efficient
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Thierry Emanuel
@thierryemanuel.bsky.social
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To state we are not as bad as we are.
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Dr. Angry Anarchist (Free 🇵🇸)
@archhelmer.bsky.social
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gee, wonder why the aid can't be driven in. a real mystery
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Phil
@keeptheskyblue.bsky.social
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I see Bezos is annoyed that Amazon can't cash in on food aid.
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🌏🐶🦕🥳 Vegetable Gremlin ⍼👻🥦💥🏠♫
@vegetablegremlin.bsky.social
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does sarah the douche know that there is no other way to get aid to gaza
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Colonel Cheeks
@marxcobalt.bsky.social
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I imagine we only start dropping aid from planes when cheaper, more efficient supply lines such as trains aren't available for any number of reasons.
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@geraldkw.bsky.social
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Yeah using several million dollars per shot to maybe kill one "combatant" while killing dozens of Innocents seems inefficient, but the fascists love murdering the weak and spreading terror so they think it's great.
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Kimmo Kannala
@kimmok.bsky.social
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Because it is cheap.
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Kapuster
@kapuster.bsky.social
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Usually aid that's being dropped in is because it's an enemy country not accessible by land...... so DUH
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Dietmar Rudert
@rudidi.bsky.social
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seems to me like some Russian bears are working hard on next US voting
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Carter Wickstrom
@carterwickstrom.bsky.social
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I mean, we do, which is how we got Hellfires on Predators and Reapers. If only there were equivalent incentives for being more effective with aid delivery.
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Carl Nyberg
@carlnyberg312.bsky.social
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Leono
@leoro.bsky.social
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We do.
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Death will not release you!𓅽
@7leaguebootdisk.bsky.social
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And it would only take 20+ C-17 flights a day to do it, or the Marines could trivially do it by sea. Can't upset the Israelis though.
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Paul Caruso
@youinmyeye.bsky.social
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WASMBAPPEN
@makeitsnow.bsky.social
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well i wouldn’t prefer delivering bombs at street level
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Ladon DWolf (coming soon to Megaplex)
@ladondwolf.bsky.social
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"Publishing articles like this by twits like this is expensive and mars the publication's credibility. Why do it?"
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@sandrookdynekayla.bsky.social
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Or the library pistol.
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chbarts
@chbarts.bsky.social
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But Biden isn't dropping bombs, he's dropping lifesaving supplies. So they have to make that seem horrible and stupid, instead.
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Mary Branscombe
@marypcbuk.bsky.social
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I mean, we probably do but we do the math differently
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Buck Speedjunk
@buckspeedjunk.bsky.social
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Every newspaper writing about Gaza should have to spend 70 years there first.
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@zendarva.bsky.social
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Sure we do. Where you do you think ballistic missiles came from?
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Dimatadore
@dimatadore.bsky.social
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Oh of course it’s the WaPo. Are even surprised anymore.
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Political Film Blog
@jgiambrone.bsky.social
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They're doing it for show. It's a drop, a meaningless morsel for a starving population of 2 million. This is propaganda for imbeciles. Not "aid" to the people of Palestine.
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Prof. Farhana Sultana
@farhana.bsky.social
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Indeed. We should stop the massive taxpayer dollars going to fund this genocide, instead focus on upholding international order of human rights (since clearly the US is making a mockery out of that too)
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Marty Olliff
@martyolliff.bsky.social
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Helping ppl demands investigations and rigid accountability. Killing them, not so much.
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Daniel Martin
@fizbin.bsky.social
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Part of the reason that dropping aid from planes is inefficient is that it's massively inefficient compared to other ways of delivering aid. This is because people will generally let your aid truck in when they won't let your bomb-delivery truck in.
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Theresa, Editor
@kuzitiz.bsky.social
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I ask “why do it” about dropping bombs all the time 🤷♀️
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Cef Cephatus | backstage | Knowledge Seeker
@uracefatus.bsky.social
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Best bombs do large area damage. Best aid do least area damage. Dropping aid from sky won't help.
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Starlit_Stella
@starlilstella.bsky.social
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What the hell is wrong with the Wapo? People. Are. Dying.
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Paul Arzooman
@zoopaul.bsky.social
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Things would be a lot easier if when asked to cut out their BS, the people being asked would actually cut it out. Would be much neater.
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Cian 🦋
@theonlycian.bsky.social
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Exactly.
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El Topo
@eltopo71.bsky.social
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The problem I have with air-dropping aid is that it's very risky for the recipients, especially in this conflict.
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@decay67.bsky.social
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With the advent of drones, that question is being asked.
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ThatOxymoron GO 🐟TEAM SEAFOAM🐟
@that0xymoron.bsky.social
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That implies that dropping bombs and white phosphorus is cheap and efficient
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John Poulos
@jpoulos.bsky.social
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Also: uh, do you really not know why?
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bubblewrap
@bubblewrap.bsky.social
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When private equity is intimately involved in the war machine
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Yesnaught
@yesnaught.big.mt
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Devil's advocate, this headline reads to me like someone is trying to gently lead a train of thought to "the US needs to stop supporting Israel" without losing their job. Of course, the actual article probably spits on my advocacy, but I don't want it said I don't try.
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Orzufancylad
@orzufancylad.bsky.social
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I can assure you that dropping bombs is very efficient.
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MRC
@mrcunn02.bsky.social
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Dropping bombs is efficient in one way.
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@saveamerica.bsky.social
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Sadly you’re right
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Gluten-free Seitan
@davidjorgonson.bsky.social
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Dropping bombs from planes is an efficient method of war.
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Robert Lantz
@robertlantz3.bsky.social
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Bombs are efficient.
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Zeroisanumber
@zeroisanumber.bsky.social
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Airdropping food is inefficient, dangerous, and nothing but a sop by team Biden to domestic politics.
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Nate's Daily Wager Podcast
@natesdailywager.bsky.social
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The Blobject Fish
@blubfeesh.bsky.social
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"Why drop aid from planes?" Because when we tried to do it on land, innocent civilians were gunned down for attempting not to starve to death. :V Whoever wrote this article must not be paying much attention
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Vivalavoices
@vivalavoices.bsky.social
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I wonder which side the WP stands on?
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Kevin Carson
@kevincarson1.bsky.social
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Anyway, the answer is that by the time the Israelis finally LET aid be brought in via those efficient trucks, everyone will have already starved.
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Marley Jay, a Werewolf of Wall Street
@marleywrites.bsky.social
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Now I'm remembering the time the U.S. dropped aid packets on Afghanistan that looked almost exactly like the cluster bombs it had been dropping on Afghanistan.
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🏳️⚧️🌷🏳️🌈 pallas the prideful 🏳️🌈🌷🏳️⚧️
@proserpina.bsky.social
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listen i hate the washington post as much as you do but is this not saying that delivering aid via plane is difficult and expensive, and so it would be much better for the government to like. deliver aid other ways? i'm reading this as anti-blockade, not anti-aid
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@calizaybak.bsky.social
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Even when the bomb dropping does nothing to accomplish the mission:
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Radio Free Kerbin
@radiofreekerbin.bsky.social
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This sort of misses the point. It's not arguing against providing aid, it's pointing out that there are better, more efficient ways to do it than airdropping.
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libraryyarngirl.bsky.social
@libraryyarngirl.bsky.social
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Because idiots are blocking other routes?
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Nick Harkaway
@harkaway.bsky.social
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*cheers*
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Nick † Wright
@nickwrightdata.ntw.app
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*throws starfish back into the water* "Well, I made a difference for that one!"
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@gregorkooz.bsky.social
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That’s how government works.
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Eileen Popp.
@epopp.bsky.social
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💔💔💔💔💔💔
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James
@james65.bsky.social
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Washington post: It's cheaper to let people die.
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Marc Reeve
@cmraman.bsky.social
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On th subject of efficiency, I've been wondering why we're doing the drops with C-130s rather than C-17s which hold 3x as much cargo. Probably for the same reason that the Berlin Airlift was mostly done with C-47s - it's the plane we have the most of in the area and ready to go.
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ellen teapot 🏳️⚧️
@ellenteapot.ca
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No, military people have for sure asked this about bombs, that’s how we got the drone wars
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ΛTLΛS
@atlasbun.bsky.social
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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone." Eisenhower
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Judith Butlerian Jihad
@xanindigo.bsky.social
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Why do it?
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Brian Smith
@theactualbrian.bsky.social
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What does the article say? Fair bet it's talking about the inability to do it any other way.
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Jessica
@dareyy.bsky.social
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Hi
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Nothings Monstered
@nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social
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The world has put a lot of effort into dropping bombs more accurately, more effectively, and more efficiently. Has anybody done the same for dropping food?
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T
@fathermudgeon.bsky.social
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This. Allllll day.
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An American Junglist
@thekvltqueer.bsky.social
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"Why do it?" Because it's AID you FUCK
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@rst.bsky.social
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A pallet of 720 MREs will feed a hundred people for a couple of days or so, after which you need to drop another pallet. A bomb kills them permanently.
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