Thats pretty fucked up. Those pagers exploded in the hands of children as well as their intended targets.
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Yeah, I thought this was satire at first. Thats just sad.
And is this one the exploding kind as well, or just a fake knock off? You wouldn't want to anger Trump by offering a broken, incomplete copy, right
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It's insane on too many fronts... I mean off the bat it's an insanely weird gift, half illegal... and I guess it's also a reference to a warcrime?
it shows how insane the country is becoming
we're openly celebrating war crimes and ethnic cleansing
like, before they would beat around the bush. you know the dog whistles. "anti-antisemitism" "self-defense" etc
once the need for the mask is not so strong, the mask starts to slip
the mask has been off for a while honestly. all of this is just blatant now. he’s not trying to hide anything.
Netanyahu is Jewish Hitler.
Uh... Has anyone checked to make sure this one isn't explosive, too?
Nahh if thats his game, let him cook.
Gotta admit, that would be the most hilarious assasination of all time.
"umm... yeah so we gave him a gift of a technology that america doesn't even use... of which the only way most people in america even remember they exist, is because we turned a bunch of them into bombs... But it's gold plated and tacky looking which trump can't resist, so we know he'll wear it openly on his next press conference".
(They're still heavily used in the healthcare industry in the US)
Hence ‘most’, I’d imagine.
It's more likely to be a microphone or part of some sort of MitM attack.
Perfect item for a listening device.
Hand delivered to the guy who hates protocols and regulations and loves gold shit from the 80s.
There's a good chance he'll just stick this in his desk in the oval office.
I'm 100% serious.
I guess he didn't have any lamp shades made from human skin of Palestinians handy?
Fucking nazis, both of them.
It doesn't matter who you are, if the Israeli government gives you -of all things- a pager, you give that shit back.
On a more serious note, I'm sure Mossad is laughing their asses off on how easy it is to spy on Trump
They gave him a tacky death threat, lol.
psycho behavior
Bet it’s a listening device
100%.
Bet he's gonna get ketchup on it.
Such a great guy. International criminal and genocide strong man. Just the kind of guy the Orange Turd loves to hang out with.
Oh my god I hope they both die soon
Can we not share amp links which have built in trackers?
"Just make sure, you always carry it with you..."
That's a power move.
Damn, im so glad i didnt vote.
/s
You think its in his pocket?
Why is CNN calling this an "operation" and not the "terrorist attack" that it is?
Because I was terrorized and not some Americans or Europeans so it’s cool. The Empire is fine, go back to work.
Imagine driving down the road and everyone affiliated with one gang just has their phone explode. While they’re driving, sitting in buses, walking down the road or eating at a local restaurant with their family. Wouldn’t you be so relieved to see them all die morbid deaths? Wouldn’t the screams of their children and their careening vehicles as well as the panicking normal people trying to break their way out of bus windows warm your heart? They were in gangs or something, this is a good thing! 🥰🥰
And the mass hysteria right after, 48 hours of people thinking their phones, computers, CPAP machines, solar inverters, cars, wireless devices, and basically anything with a power button could imminently explode. Like we don’t have other problems.
And then you go online and enough people are smug about it, even on Lemmy (a rare decent space online), that you genuinely lose some remnant of respect for the average person. I’ve been online for almost two decades now, I’ve seen and gotten used to how mean it could be, but this event broke something and I’ve actually cried over nothing more than expressions of callousness online that weren’t even directed at me.
It’s kind of funny. As Lebanese people we are pretty damn racist and judgmental, we think we’re some forgotten actually-European country that’s not like all those countries, I could write a whole essay on why deep down we culturally feel more white than any western white person. But then things like this happen, and everyone pretends you’re in rural Afghanistan and always have been, and worse still, that you deserve it on some level.
Which now just makes me wonder how they feel in Afghanistan.
history is written by the victor. if the american colonies lost their war of independence, they would be labelled insurgents
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I would call it a genocide.
lol what losers
Holy shit it actually has a battery in it? I thought it was solid gold
I can’t believe any of this.
What’s next? A golden fax machine?