• laziestflagellant [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    4 months ago

    yeah man. instead of explosive drones for $7000 a pop, Iran is spending millions of dollars training extremely temperamental, intelligent animals that take ~7 years to reach maturity, much less train in a way that involves deadly precision, in infrastructure that would probably be really easy to see via satellite due to the massive water needs.

    Sure.

    On the other hand I can absolutely believe America has a dolphin abusing industrial complex (I mean besides the ones that already exist at aquariums)

  • Everyone is missing what this really is. The MIC pattern is to claim the enemy has capabilities and the US needs to develop superior capabilities in the same field. This sounds completely silly because why would the US try to train suicide dolphins when we have millions of dollars in drones and other equipment. Let’s think about that. Who is close to the US government that needs money for his experimental implant technology? Who loves military and government contracts for his dead end scifi projects? That’s right. They’re going to claim Iran has dolphin control technology so the US needs to have it too. Then they’re going to hand Elon a fat contract to implant chips into dolphin’s brains. Elon is going to buy or get involved in SETI shit, who just published on using LLMs for dolphin language. This also ties into cold war experiments with dolphins as well, using LSD and Ketamine. Who likes Ketamine? Elon. John C Lilly was the guy who drugged dolphins and experimented on human to dolphin communication. He was also one of those early California techno-hippie guys. He was a bit too old by the time Epstein came of age, but he would have definitely been one of the guys on the island and beloved by silicon valley types. His laboratory was also a few miles from Little Saint James, in the US Virgin Islands.

    Watch if they don’t keep pushing this dolphin shit in the background. Followed by Elon hyping up neural link and getting some kind of contract.

  • miz [any, any]@hexbear.net
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    4 months ago

    there is no lie too dumb for these people. all they care about is western chauvinism and maintaining imperialism

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    4 months ago

    Which would cost more?

    1. Catching dolphins

    2. Training dolphins

    3. Putting mines on dolphins and deploying them

    4. Hoping the dolphins don’t fuck up and hit stuff other than boats

    5. Hoping dolphins don’t hit the boats you don’t want them to hit

    Or

    1. Fire missiles and drone strikes at the narrow chokepoint.
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      4 months ago

      It’s a great program because dolphins are intelligent and the ones that launch successful suicide missions can then come back to teach the next generation of dolphins

  • FnordPrefect [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    4 months ago
    1. michael-laugh
    2. “The initial cost of acquiring a dolphin ranges from $50,000 to over $200,000” “Annual maintenance expenses can escalate up to $300,000”

    Truly a tool of desperation! If Iran actually has Flipper sink ships(one use), that’s WAY more of a flex than just using the 55 Shaheds (just for obtaining/housing a dolphin) they could procure instead

  • Damarcusart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    Saw the other post with the Fox news ghouls saying this and thought “wow, they really would get their watchers to believe anything, won’t they?”

    Now I see this is a concentrated effort by the entire American media apparatus. This is a top down order to spread this bullshit.

    Obviously the main part is the “The Enemy is seconds away from collapse.” but why dolphins specifically?

    Could this be an attempt to demonise Iran by pushing some kind of animal cruelty thing onto them? Most of the atrocity propaganda hasn’t really stuck, but they haven’t really tried a “they murder cute animals for fun” yet as far as I’m aware.

    Could also be damage control for some upcoming scandal, maybe the US navy has been torturing/massacring marine life and they’re trying to get ahead of it by claiming the dolphins were Hamas Iranian and therefore deserved it/it was self defence?

    • SkingradGuard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      Most of the atrocity propaganda hasn’t really stuck, but they haven’t really tried a “they murder cute animals for fun” yet as far as I’m aware.

      To be fair, there’s this perception amongst westerners (usually the anti Muslim chuds) that Muslims want to murder every dog they see because they’re evil and their religion is bad. Maybe they forgot they can tap into that again.

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        Is that a thing? Maybe it’s because I’m Australian, but I’ve never heard that. Usually it is Chinese people over here who are treated as wanting to murder/eat dogs, not Muslims, over here Muslims are usually accused of animal abuse because of Halal meat preparation, by people who have no idea what that even is but are told it is Muslim and therefore bad.

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        Westerners see Muslims in general prefer to have pet cats over dogs and see it as a sign of Muslims thinking dogs are spawn of evil when really its just that in traditional Islam if a dog licks your skin you must essentially take a bath/wash cuz its unclean.

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    Sweet baby Jesus. I have to ROFL to get my eyeballs unstuck from rolling them so hard.

    Correct me if I’m wrong please: isn’t the only confirmation of a military actually having tested this some branch of the US armed forces? Thanks in advance.

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    Mines alone dont make any sense. Why spend money and resources mining a straight that you can just shoot at? Especially if you want to let some people through and not others? Mines can’t tell if you trade with yuan or dollars. Attaching mines to dolphins would probably just result in a dolphin taking out a large rock when it notices food shuttling near it. Dolphins also get around. Or all the mined dolphins would take each other out in a chain reaction since they are social animals who tend to play and bump around with each other, just a cloud of dolphins shrapnel under the sea. Unless Dr Evil becomes the Ayatollah and demands ‘fricken dolphins with fricken MINES strapped to their heads!’ it’s not happening and never will. Cause its beyond fantasy, it is believing a parody of a fantasy.