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Lockhead Martin clothes. (lemmygrad.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 years ago (2 children)

why is the delivery taking so long for my genocide-themed clothes

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Unironically because of the Ukraine war this time?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

Sorry guys, we made a mistake and accidentally loaded all the t-shirts into a Javelin missile we sent to Ukraine. We only found out when the post office let us know that the boxes we were sending to you all tested for explosives! Unfortunately we can't issue refunds because we spent the money already on trafficking orphan slaves to convert some surplus canvas waterboarding hoods into messenger bags.

[+] [email protected] -41 points 2 years ago (6 children)

FWIW Lockheed Martin is right now part of stopping an ongoing attempted genocide.

(Yeah, that's right, they are the people behind the beloved HIMARS system.)

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

the same "beloved" himars that was used to kill several civilians in donetsk?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

genocide is when you consistently try to avoid civilian casualties

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I don't mind defining all war as genocide. USA gets to be the world's most genocidal nation either way.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think that's too reductive; genocide is somewhat vaguely defined, but I've always seen it as systematically trying to eradicate some large group of civilians; AFAIK the Russian military isn't deliberately killing those who aren't fighting back (not even if they're Nazis). On the other hand, maybe "genocide" is just a flawed term since it's based on presumed intent rather than results

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Jokes aside it's a good conversation. It is a vague term and continues to be the world's most popular word for the greatest crime imaginable. What I find interesting is that mass killing of people of a particular political ideology still falls out of the bounds of the ever growing definition of genocide.100,000 communists in South Korea are systematically killed and it doesn't capture the imagination quite the same if it can't be called genocide.

I'm not arguing that genocide should be a more vague term. I feel like a need a word for mass killing of largely unarmed demographics that is more flexible.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Agreed, apologies if I seemed hostile. Regardless of how strict the definition is, Amerika is by far the worst (especially if you include sanctions placed on countries like Cuba, the DPRK and Syria, which I think is entirely reasonable considering the effects and stated intentions)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

But they already were.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

ban hammer

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

Look I understand it's easy to say this as a housed person, but you should really try to find a place to stay other than the abandoned chemical plant

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago (3 children)

There's a trend in South Korea lately for big name branded clothes. CNN, National Geographic, I guess Lockhead Martin too. It's really weird

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago

South Korea is a giant late stage capitalism so it makes perfect sense.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago

Might be just about fetishising big brand names.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

I’ve seen the National Geographic clothes here in Canada but CNN brand clothing is just something else

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Who in their right mind would want to buy a t-shirt of the fricking F-35!? The shittiest fighter jet known to mankind?

Better yet, why would you buy anything from LOCKHEED FREAKING MARTIN?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Crude and rude got me every time

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Liz Lemon's BWL Jeans.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Mid-2000s who's up fuck George w bu$h

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Lib lemon

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Is not lockhead Martin doing thhe clothes, but a random company buying the name rights and just stapling the brand on their clothes. Had a friend who worked in a shoes factory who had the names of random brands that you would not associate with shoes.