Noooo…this is a lethal amount of irony. Don’t look below the fold, it’ll kill you.
Fox News @JonScottFNC "To the Muslim community, if you don't want to be portrayed in a negative light don't burn people alive/set off bombs" pic.twitter.com/ouePug6tuF
— Yashar (@yashar) April 16, 2017
To the Muslim community, if you don’t want to be portrayed in a negative light, maybe don’t burn people alive and set off bombs
This, in the week that ‘Murica proudly dropped the Mother of All Bombs, a massive thermobaric weapon.
#cultural.blindness
Yeah, but US=good, so it’s good that the US dropped MOAB. QED.
At first I read that as “massive thermobarbaric weapon,” although I don’t guess the difference is worth worrying about.
Ah yes, I remember when the muslim community decided to bomb the boston marathon.
A minute before reading the above post, I happened to be thinking about the movie ‘Grave of the Fireflies’ and on how it impacted my views on war. For those who haven’t seen that movie, it follows the suffering of the country who are trapped in their homeland, through the foolish actions of their government. More accurately, it follows two siblings in the last weeks of their life, as they die in a country whose citizens can no longer afford to care about them. Odd how America’s most watched cable news channel views war with just as much complexity as a standard 6 year old watching a GI Joe cartoon.
I guess all of those good old boys in the Klan who burnt crosses on people’s yards were Muslims too, huh?
HidariMak @5:
I’m pretty sure that GI Joe cartoons had the message that killing people was bad at least once. That puts them ahead of FAUX Noise.
#5: Oh, man. I took my daughter to see Grave of the Fireflies after seeing Princess Mononoke and Totoro, with all the expectations associated with those movies. To say we were shocked is an understatement.
It’s a great movie, but jeeezus. I don’t think I’ve seen any other movie that describes the horror of war on civilians so thoroughly.
I survived, though just barely. How did he tweet that with his head up his ass?
PZ @8
This is a bit off topic, but as effective Grave of the Fireflies is as a movie about the horrors of war, it apparently wasn’t the main intention behind the film. Apparently, it was at least partially made to bring across to the younger generation in Japan what their elders had gone through during WWII. That doesn’t stop it from reminding you how the civilians in “enemy” countries are actual people. It makes for an interesting contrast with the smug, tacky jingoism you see on Fox News.
I should say that Grave of the Fireflies wasn’t primarily intended as an anti-war film. It’s very much about the horrors of war, just the specific horrors faced by the target audience’s parents and grandparents.
Yeah, USA, country of peace
It gets even better, whatever that means. According to the wiki article on that dreaded thing its predecessor was used to, among other things, “initimidate” the Iraqi army during Bush II’s Golf II war. The new bomb was designed as a replacement because the old bombs ran out or something. If true that means the MOAB is quite literally a terror weapon, by design.
And then guy on the left says (paraphrasing), .
Anyone who hasn’t seen “Grave of the Fireflies”… goddamn…
Don’t even TRY to watch this one without a box of tissues and some slapstick videos for afterward. I don’t care if you’re a seven-foot-tall war machine who had his emotions surgically removed to make room for more bullets made of toxic masculinity. You will need the tissues.
… christ, I watched this once, years ago, and I can barely remember it without tearing up.