• dbilitated@aussie.zone
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    6 months ago

    The whole article listing the various uses of flamethrowers, like environmental conservation, then mentioning concerns that flamethrowers can double as weapons is just… I don’t even know what to do with that.

    it even lists napalm as an intended use. gonna conserve the hell out of that commie rainforest, I guess?

    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      The thing is we on paper didn’t use incindiaries in Vietnam as anti personnel weapons, it was to torch the rainforest and deoxygenate tunnels. Now in practice we all know that flamethrowers were used on homes and have seen the pictures of the children with Napalm burns. But yeah this line of argument is nothing new.