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minus-squareRimu@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·edit-22 months agoDo you care to name an incident, so we can compare?
minus-squareSunforged@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up27·2 months ago The 542 drone strikes that Obama authorized killed an estimated 3,797 people, including 324 civilians. As he reportedly told senior aides in 2011: “Turns out I’m really good at killing people. Didn’t know that was gonna be a strong suit of mine.”
minus-squareRimu@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·2 months agoYes, I see, lots of parallels there. Apparently Trump is quite a fan of drone strikes too: There have been 2,243 drone strikes in the first two years of the Trump presidency, compared with 1,878 in Mr Obama’s eight years in office, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47480207
minus-squareSunforged@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up17·edit-22 months agoThat Trump is worse does not trivialize the fact.
minus-squareRimu@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months agoYeah I’m not arguing with you on this just sharing information I found.
minus-squareBeeegScaaawyCripple@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months agoIf my math is right, that’s not by the thousands. That’s by the tens.
minus-squareredsand@lemmy.dbzer0.comBanned from communitylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoRoughly %10 casualty rate. That’s dog shit 💩
Do you care to name an incident, so we can compare?
Yes, I see, lots of parallels there.
Apparently Trump is quite a fan of drone strikes too:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47480207
That Trump is worse does not trivialize the fact.
Yeah I’m not arguing with you on this just sharing information I found.
If my math is right, that’s not by the thousands. That’s by the tens.
Roughly %10 casualty rate. That’s dog shit 💩