How the U.S. hid an airstrike that killed dozens of civilians in Syria • Hacker News Board

Re: How the U.S. hid an airstrike that killed dozens of civilians in Syria

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Post by dang » Mon, Nov 15, 2021, 6:00 PM UTC

curiousgal wrote: post #12

bayesian_horse wrote: post #2

As horrible as those allegations are, let's appreciate that the U.S. military may be about the only military force that is both capable of committing these mistakes/war crimes and investigating them. Just imagine what would happen if Russian or Chinese military lawyers or journalists tried to do something similar.

And y'all wonder why Americans are hated. It takes a special amount of delusion to pat yourself on the back, for whatever made-up reason, after having killed innocent people. Imagine saying the same thing about 9/11 and watch your life be torn to pieces.

Nationalistic flamewar will get you banned here, regardless of which nation you have a problem with. Please don't post like this to HN—it creates hellish threads that destroy what this site is supposed to be for. I realize that the GP comment was a provocation, but outright flamewar is exactly the wrong way to respond to that.

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Edit: you have a long history of posting like this. We've already warned you more than once:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25513278

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11858996

- and you've continued repeatedly to do it, including recently. If you keep this up, we will have to ban you. I don't want to ban you, so please stop abusing HN in this way.

Re: How the U.S. hid an airstrike that killed dozens of civilians in Syria

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Post by dang » Mon, Nov 15, 2021, 6:05 PM UTC

oh_sigh wrote: post #22

curiousgal wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And y'all wonder why Americans are hated. It takes a special amount of delusion to pat yourself on the back, for whatever made-up reason, after having killed innocent people. Imagine saying the same thing about 9/11 and watch your life be torn to pieces.

Americans are hated? I think you hang out in a fairly small social circle if that is the norm. Or are you just one of those self-hating Americans who thinks everyone else is just like you? Guessing that's the case from the use of "y'all"

Responding to nationalistic flamebait with more nationalistic flamewar will also get you banned here, regardless of how provocative another comment is or you feel it is. No more of this, please. It's not what this site is for.

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Re: How the U.S. hid an airstrike that killed dozens of civilians in Syria

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Post by dang » Mon, Nov 15, 2021, 6:05 PM UTC

holoduke wrote: post #72

pkphilip wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You should travel more and ask people outside the US what they actually think about US military policy. Note, some people do distinguish between what the US establishment does and what ordinary American civilians do but that is not always the case.

Ordinary Americans are quite nationalistic and rarely leave their country. World knowledge is very poor amongst the mid and low class American citizens.

Please keep nationalistic provocations off this site.

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Re: How the U.S. hid an airstrike that killed dozens of civilians in Syria

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Post by dang » Mon, Nov 15, 2021, 6:07 PM UTC

bayesian_horse wrote: post #2

As horrible as those allegations are, let's appreciate that the U.S. military may be about the only military force that is both capable of committing these mistakes/war crimes and investigating them. Just imagine what would happen if Russian or Chinese military lawyers or journalists tried to do something similar.

You took the thread into a hellish nationalistic flamewar with this provocation. Please don't do that again. It's emphatically not what this site is for, and it's particularly avoidable.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: How the U.S. hid an airstrike that killed dozens of civilians in Syria

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Post by hunterb123 » Tue, Nov 16, 2021, 8:37 AM UTC

GaryTang wrote: post #6

And a more recent airstrike… https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/17/politics/kabul-drone-strike-u...

Yeah that was the greatly touted response to ISIS for killing 13 US troops and 95 Afghans.

I'm still waiting for the big apology from Biden and the actual retaliation to ISIS, murdering 10 innocent people including 7 children doesn't count.

I heard from him we still had great intel and over-the-horizon capability. That seemed to be a lie.