• axont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    I mean if we’re keeping score the Zionist Entity is one of the world’s largest weapons and surveillance manufacturers. They’re also America’s primary client for air superiority craft and weapons.

    Their weapons research division created the Desert Eagle .50 AE pistol, which was designed not to be a good sidearm, but to look and sound intimidating. It’s a gun specifically to make IDF soldiers feel powerful and cocky. It was the gun robocop was supposed to have before the crew realized his suit’s fingers were too big too fit through the trigger guard. It’s the gun that agents from The Matrix have, and agents represent oppression itself

    • RedNajm [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.netOP
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      oh definitely , i think zionists usually complain about in this argument is the ratio of development. Which, is a silly argument to make when the conditions in Palestine for a century have been brutal, and Israel is both western-backed and isn’t at risk of being flattened each year, it’s kind of hard to make consumer products when you’re desperate for survival for your whole life.

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      It is also very fun, speaking from experience. It goes bang really loud and makes a big hole in what it was pointed at and kicks your hands like a horse, utterly impractical but it makes me happy

      The one that’s really funny/pathetic is .41AE. They really thought they were gonna make pistols that people use for something other than going “hehe loud bang” and it was a complete flop

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        YMa shlomcha, bitch. Erev and boker tov

        We invented the cherry tomato

        And Waze, USB drives, and the Iron Dome

        Israeli salad, Uzi, Stents, and Jaffa’s orange groves

        Microchips was us

        IPhone cameras, us

        Taco salads, us

        Toda raba, Moses

        Olive Garden, us

        White phosphorus

        Sabra Hummus

        Hasbara sus

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    Tbf AK firearms do have a certain agricultural-equipment vibe to them, and the utilitarian design did influence other firearm designers.

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    The Third World is not poor. You don’t go to poor countries to make money. There are very few poor countries in this world. Most countries are rich! The Philippines are rich! Brazil is rich! Mexico is rich! Chile is rich! Only the people are poor. But there’s billions to be made there, to be carved out, and to be taken. There’s been billions for 400 years! The capitalist European and North American powers have carved out and taken the timber, the flax, the hemp, the cocoa, the rum, the tin, the copper, the iron, the rubber, the bauxite, the slaves, and the cheap labour. They have taken out of these countries. These countries are not underdeveloped, they’re overexploited!

    -Dr. Michael Parenti, 1986 Post title reminded me of this