• VILenin [he/him]@hexbear.netM
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      8 months ago

      lol yeah the USSR definitely ignored the military infrastructure and just bombed all the “Estonian” cultural landmarks because they’re cartoon villains and just hate poor innocent Estonia

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        In your opinion, if anyone around the world wants to take their revenge on the assassination of Soleimani and intends to do it proportionately in the way they suggest — that we take one of theirs now that they’ve got one of ours — who should we consider to take out in the context of America?

        Think about it. Are we supposed to take out Spider-Man and SpongeBob? They don’t have any heroes. We have a country in front of us with a large population and a large landmass, but it doesn’t have any heroes. All of their heroes are cartoon characters — they’re all fictional.

        Shahab Moradi on Iranian TV

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      If it is not completely made up bullshit the thing about bombing cultural landmarks might have a good explanation. Back in the WWII era aerial navigation and bomb targeting was a lot cruder than today and when bombing a city navigators would use landmarks, like church towers, to orientate themselves and target bombs. Everyone was doing it this way because that was the only way to do it back then.