Edit: This seems to have attracted a few eco-fashs :/
kinda like using a swab to clean the spot where the needle goes… before giving someone the lethal injection on death row.
On top of the other obvious complaints, I think that nobody in their right mind would compromise the performance of an antiaircraft missile to make it relatively less polluting.
Does Iran get a carbon credit for each dead schoolgirl?
No, just for the child soldiers.
Imma reuse my joke from last time this was posted:
The Green Revolution deserve AA capability, too!
I’m sure it’s not even green in any meaningful sense but just slightly greener than the others (if that’s even true). Not that that would really make a difference either way.
If you ride the subway in Washington DC there are posters advertising anti-aircraft systems and other military contract products right next to the ads for car insurance and chewing gum and it’s so fucking weird.
Maybe like 10 years ago, someone did a regression analysis to see which stations were most expensive to advertise in, when corrected for actual ridership starting or ending their train rides swiping in and out at those stations. For the most part, most stations’ advertising prices pretty closely matched the number of riders, with the clear outlier of the Pentagon station.
I can’t find that article anymore because Google search turned into dog shit, but this more recent article basically covers the contours.
Huh… perhaps I should buy myself a few anti-aircraft batteries, you never know what home invaders can come up with ig
Bro if you’re in the market, you’ve gotta check out Conksat’s offerings they’ve got some absolutely unmatched products like Missiles As A Service, next generation bombers based on the bleeding edge Cessna platform, and even a ground based satellite power system with integrated return reel!
Own a Phalanx CIWS for home defense, since that’s what the founding fathers intended.
Tally ho lads
Wait fr? Thats a normal thing in the USA?
in and around the central hub for all us lobbyists and politicians it is.
Is this a satire community?
This is certainly not a real tweet that you posted.
Around DC where many DoD entities exist. I doubt it’s like that in many other places
Definitely not a thing in Ottawa, Canada (where our Department of National Defence is)
Thats crazy
I lived there for many years and never once saw that…
The fact you called it the “subway” and not Metro makes me think you’re full of shit right
I’m not from DC, but I’ve visited a number of times, and I said subway not Metro out of the assumption that people outside of DC wouldn’t know what I was talking about if I said Metro. The ads I saw were near Pentagon City or Alexandria.
this can’t be real, dear lord in heaven it cant be real, can it ?
It’s not. It’s a parody account that took advantage of Twitter’s unbelievably stupid decision to hand out checkmarks to anyone who paid for an account.
They left out the best part: it’s operated by women and children, we finally ended the patriarchy
Theres a comment saying “jokingly” the killing of people reduce emission. First of all, this is eco fascism because although Im sure it is not intentional; A joke forwards an attitude. It is a sightsteer.
This sightsteer takes on consumerist approach to climate action. However it is important to note that it is might and machine that is poisoning our world, not people. We should put responsibility where it belongs. That way we can plan for actual change, instead of symbolic change.
Devils advocate here; the Iran war will cut emissions due to less abundant amounts of oil in global circulation.
Well I guess all the people they kill can’t contribute to any emissions
Gotta kill billionaires then. Blowing up poor people is highly inefficient.
But who’s going to fund all the killing then? It’s more efficient to keep your stream of income alive.
Not if their money is redistributed. It’s not like it disappears.
Well the missle being advertised is an AA missle and the rich spend lots of time jet setting so…
That’s a grimly salient point. I wonder how long it will take to advertise them as carbon-negative.
Well hello, Mr. Malthus.
Well hello, finite resources.
The RIM-7 doesn’t even have that justification for being green; its a short range anti-missile (and super cost effectively, anti-drone…) system. It isn’t used to blow people up directly.
Not just the people, but they are so thoughtful as to remove the polluting airplanes, too. Praise to the overlords.
“Yeah, we kill civilians in droves but at least we’re eco friendly about it.”
The marketing speak, tho. I think that angers me the most. More eco friendly than something that has zero measurable levels of eco friendly, is a low bar. It’s like saying asbestos is more eco friendly than coal carbon emissions, so therefore asbestos is eco friendly and should be celebrated. Theres zero good to their argument.
This is not real… right?
The greenest missile is the one used to remove Big Oil executives and lobbyists.
Every search result I found links back to this exact screenshot.
Remember when Robert Evans did fake ads for Raytheon on his podcast? This is more ham fisted than his parody ads were.
Couldn’t find the tweet, but they do seem to engage in some military greenwashing:
Aside from directly destroying the flora and fauna, I’ve pondered a lot how much pollution World War 2 had produced with all the bombs dropped and fuels used to run a global scale industrialised warfare and genocide If I decide to switch my career to environmental science, I would like to do research on that topic.
I feel like they missed the point entirely
