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Death to America, Death to Israel

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[–] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 44 points 8 months ago

biden-troll "You see, we're trying to deliver so much aid that we ran out of parachutes!"

biden "So, using our incredible American innovation, we decided, y'know with all that food we're dropping, people are going to need cutlery."

biden-point "So we looked into it, and our case history indicated 100% survivability of using forks, knives, and spoons as a parachute. We even packed an honest-to-God anvil, I don't understand why, but they claimed it was necessary and we always Follow The Science!"

(Damn, I typed this with the assumption I could find a compilation video of this gag. Well I couldn't, so use your imagination, and hate youtube/WB a little more for making fun difficult)

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 38 points 8 months ago

I'm reminded of that video of the American planes fleeing Afghanistan so fast that refugees who helped them were falling off the wheels.

Biden/Harris 2024 - The Lesser Evil

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 36 points 8 months ago

We're helping!

[–] iByteABit@hexbear.net 35 points 8 months ago

Turns out even the "aid" is genocide what-the-hell

[–] supafuzz@hexbear.net 30 points 8 months ago

The food is a decade past its use-by, so I wonder how old the parachutes are

[–] wopazoo@hexbear.net 23 points 8 months ago (4 children)

How big are these aid packages that they can squash 5 people? I'm assuming what happened was that the package collapsed a roof or something, killing 5 people.

[–] YearOfTheCommieDesktop@hexbear.net 27 points 8 months ago

at least pallet size? maybe bigger

[–] sovietknuckles@hexbear.net 20 points 8 months ago

and injuring 11

[–] Aryuproudomenowdaddy@hexbear.net 9 points 8 months ago

Apparently some of the straps broke and sent heavy boxes scatter shotting the area. I imagine even a relatively light package in free fall can snap someone's neck.

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

looks like about the size of a large car, must have dropped it straight over a big crowd

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 16 points 8 months ago

In related news, satire is still very dead

[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 16 points 8 months ago

Is this the legendary lethal aid?

This is so fucked...

[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 7 points 8 months ago

This happened obviously. But the cynic in me says it's prevalence in US/NATO media is because it's s nice way to skew the SEO away from the fact that Israel has been using aid as bait to commit more massacres.