Not sure the first-person, movie-trailer-style, "I'm going to make a run for it" while dramatic music plays is really the right way to report this.
100% agree. I'm all for reporting what people in Ukraine (and Palestine/Lebanon) are suffering now, but making a show out of that is not the way. That is not a movie, people are actually dying there.
Yeah, I get that this aesthetic is how a lot of people consume media these days, but the aesthetics combined with the subject matter is repulsive.
Typically you can argue about classifying something as “state-sponsored terrorism”, but this is just about the clearest example I could imagine.
“Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.” - Peter Ustinov.
I don't know who said this quote but "one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter" also rings true
This happens in Gaza on a massive scale, killing people with drones with mounted guns, or missiles.
To add some data about the situation in Middle East, just two days ago Israeli forces fired against the UNIFIL (UN) peacekeeping forces in Lebanon.
Hopefully the following (UN, BBC) are considered reliable enough sources.
IDF response:
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-824296
'The IDF said that Friday’s firing at a UNIFIL post took place as its forces were operating against an “immediate threat against them.” It said it was examining the circumstances of the incident but blamed Hezbollah for deliberately operating near such posts.'
The clearest example of terrorism is sabotaging a supply chain, booby trapping consumer devices and not caring because war?
OR building a neural network to target civilians indiscriminately based on the same egregious moral high ground?
Do Americans truly wish to put themselves in harm's way to support terrorism for some religious/ideological cause the same way the other uses terrorism for the exact reasons?
When do we stop and say enough is enough, America is for Americans and American interests only? Where do we draw the line?
Not sure why you were down as voted as this has been widely documented.
https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6357/Gaza:-Israeli-arm...
That site doesn't seem very believable. Do you have some other reference?
Any anti-Israel post or comment on this site, no matter how mild, gets downvoted and/or flagged very quickly. If this exact post was a video taken in Gaza, it would never have even reached the front page.
Easily untrue when you have posts like this at 1400 points and comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39918245
On the front page for 13 hours: https://hnrankings.info/39918245/
He's correct and you referencing a single article that is 6 months old, 1 of thousands that survived the flagging by brigading zionists, is not any sufficient evidence to the contrary.
One can easily see how many Gaza related articles get immediately flagged and removed here https://github.com/vitoplantamura/HackerNewsRemovals
Interesting to see that Russia has setup 2000+ cell phone towers in its occupied areas in attempts to gain intel from Ukraine cell phones.
When we do it, its "precision strike" or "human shield penetration".
When the other side does, its "terrorism" no matter how small.
Terror, violence will never stop more bloodshed, you might get the upper hand today but you are borrowing from the future generation's peace.
If a region constantly requires tremendous human sacrifice to exist and constantly at the mercy of spun narratives, should it exist in the first place?
If a region constantly uses terror tactics while calling others terrorist, isn't it a sponsor of terrorism?
I remember Slaughterbots (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaughterbots) which was a clear warning of what the future would bring if we failed to regulate autonomous weapons that went totally ignored. It was just three years after that video was released that the UN reported the first use of autonomous drones being used in war.
This is an annoying, not very informative format. Fuck this.
Would be nice to have more objective reporting.
I suggest you take a look at https://malcontentment.com/.
They have a Patreon and a podcast with daily news (pdf) from Russian invasion of Ukraine.
This is the best source of news. X(Shutter) is filled with propaganda from both sides. The usual news sources are sensational and clickbaity.
Is this something you would like to read?
While the video is probably a bit much the Russians are hunting civilians with drones and has been doing this for some time according to my sources.
Also you can probably find a source with statistics about the number of hospitals and schools destroyed by Russia. Perhaps this will open your eyes?
This guy's content would be far better with less dramatic editing and less of his hyperbolic narration. Hard to resist closing the tab.
I know this isn’t the same thing at all, but I do feel “terrorized” or at least violated when drones are used even in casual ways. Like when some jerk is flying a buzzing drone around people in a quiet park with nature walks, and ruining the experience for everyone else. It’s extra creepy when they’re flying over children playing at a beach or your backyard or whatever. But how do you stop them and not get in trouble yourself? I feel like the law around drones is not enforced even where it’s clearly illegal to fly them - for example near ship terminals where there are signs about this.
While I understand your point, I feel like the "drones are annoying" factors kind of get overshadowed by the guns.
People can be much more annoying than drones, yet they are legal..
But if you want to embrace your inner Karen, get a Remote ID scanner app for your phone - it shows operator position so you can go confront the person flying..
It's a good job that this kind of thing could never happen "over here". Fortunately drones are very expensive and hard to manufacture. They're not sold in toy-shops so that any lunatic could terrorise schools, concert stadiums, airports or other places where lives would be lost in the crush. /s
Oh, but we need Amazon to deliver us more pointless tat we don't need and can't afford, and for the cops to "make everybody safe". So keep on cheering and normalising this as benign civil technology rather than as a weapon-system we have very few defences against.
EDIT: That took 3 seconds to mod down, Fastest I've ever seen.
While we’re at it, let’s also ban cars because terrorists can use them to carry bombs, just like they could use drones. Drones are not the problem here, the bombs are. And in States, any lunatic can buy an assault rifle and shoot up a school, no drones required:)
Since critical military aid is only trickling through, Ukraine has been forced to improvise: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-ramps-up-arms-p...
What action do you suggest?
I did suggest something in the comment; not glorifying, justifying and pouring money into the development of a technology whose abuses self-evidently vastly outweigh its societal utility. It's practically designed to be a terrorists tool.
The "Seven Questions" [0] by Neil Postman are a great read. I think they shhould be mandator reading on any engineering course.
[0] https://medium.com/@yogesvr/neil-postmans-seven-questions-to...
Conversely, since the US has fallen far short of upholding its obligations, Ukraine has no choice but to trailblaze drone technology. In a fight for survival, there's no time to ponder questions like the ones you linked to...