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this post was submitted on 08 Mar 2024
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I'm struggling to think of something flippant and cutting enough to capture the irony while also doing justice to and being respectful of the dead and wounded.
"Supplies, motherfucker!"
Clonk.
(I am certain this does not in fact meet your second criteria.)
It's fantastic otherwise, but yeah no definitely not.
"Open up and say ahh"!
“Who ordered the pancakes?”
That's unironically how I feel most of the time about this war.
The very idea of this happening is so ridiculous that I almost don't believe it. It's like some Looney Toons shit.
I suppose dropping humanitarian aid is kind of like dropping bombs without the boomy bits, so I can definitely believe it. The bigger issue is that the only effective way to get aid in is air dropping. If a certain country would be a little more sensible, the logistics could be easier.
I've been trying very hard not to think about the "sonic got killed by an extra life box" bit and be more serious about this
Please be the onion Please be the onion Please be the onion
Aren't airdrops parachuted in? I'm not trying to be a dick, but people didn't have time to move out of the way?
The chutes didn't open. There's video. Having a heavy pallet crash through your roof can cause death. We're talking maybe half the weight of a car, traveling at faster than freeway speed.
And I still struggle to belive that drop found it's "target". It's so stupid.
Even the ones where the chutes deployed have to be still carrying a decent amount of energy given the speed they appeared to be dropping in the video I saw. Given the number of folks running to try to get to them I'm surprised MORE weren't injured.
So, an update seems to indicate that the parachute failed. So...I was just a dick since I didn't consider that possibility.
I just can't imagine it going any worse over there
It will. It's practically unimaginable, but it will.
It can always be worse!
Life imitates art, once again
A journalist based in northern Gaza told CNN that Palestinians in northern Gaza are struggling to make use of aid recently air dropped by the US and Jordan, because it does not include essential food supplies.
Abdel Qader Al Sabbah told CNN that the air drops of aid are “useless” calling for items that can be stored and used over several days rather than single portions to be eaten on the day.
Well done as usual, America.
Golf clap.
Maybe the U.S. should stop "helping" Palestinians. And also stop helping Israel.
Humanitarian Daily Rations are best for scenarios like when displaced people are en route, or transient camps without cooking infrastructure built yet.
Flour, rice, lentils, beans, etc is cheaper both up front and a per-meal basis, but doesn’t offer a bonus payout to US military industrial suppliers. The same companies that make the MREs the military eats in the field, also made the HDRs being airdropped right now.
When a population is starving, I fail to see how single portion containers isn't helping.
It is food. If it's more food than you can eat before it parishes, share it with others around you.
Yeah, it's not great that the chutes failed and we basically catapulted "aid" at a residential building, but there are unavoidable risks when you're forced to air drop anything.
This is more condemning good in the name of perfect.
If you want to point fingers, point them at Isreal for not allowing aid to be driven in.
And no, I don't need more finger pointing about US aid to Isreal.