US military:
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.
It’s like some Looney Toons shit.
…or, on a more sinister note, some Mossad shit.
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.
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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.
It’s why I have trouble believing this even happened. It’s absurd.
In a video obtained by CNN on Friday, an airdrop goes wrong when the parachute on a pallet malfunctions. The pallet and its contents can be seen falling at a high speed towards a residential building near the Fairoz Towers in western Gaza.
If it’s what I imagine to be massive pallets of equipment, people could wrongly be under the impression that these drops will float down like feathers when in reality they’re like a low-speed automobile collision. So as they approach the ground their speed and drift may catch some off-guard.
Additionally as the article points out, some drops have broken apart or their parachutes do not deploy.
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.
Like I said, maybe they should stop “helping.”
It’s a paltry effort in face of the mammoth need, but I’d rather see this, than the world walking away. Because enforcing the ICJ judgement or stopping a preventable famine apparently isn’t allowed, but “we tried” I guess?
We’ve already seen deaths from starvation and Palestinians who look like the “living skeletons” we liberated from Auschwitz or Buchenwald. I’m behind any effort to try and stop that, however ineffective it is, as long as the efforts continue to stop the death
Help is a relative word.
If I ask for your help in fixing my computer and you show with slegehammer, you’re not really helping then, are you?
Its more like someone showing up with a screwdriver, which is generally the correct tool to help fix a computer, but it’s too small and sometimes they slip while using it and damage the motherboard in the process.
Not great, but if you literally had no other option for computer help, it’s still something.
Its more like someone showing up with a screwdriver
Not really tho because most computer issues are software-based … so a screwdriver is just as useless as a sledgehammer.
The best thing to do is ask what help is needed vs assuming you know what to do and only providing the aid you want to give.
Well now we are just splitting hairs into worse and worse hairs.
Turns out computer repair, much like the humanitarian aid we are actually talking about, is indeed a complex and difficult thing to get right.
It’s almost like the attempt to help should get some credit, especially as the person who brought a sledgehammer or a screwdriver learns that you need software support and adjusts that help accordingly.
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
Further proof that The Pentagon is taking us for a ride, when they claim to need over a billion in tax dollars each year, for drones and fighter jets. There are far more economical ways of exterminating foreign civilians available
