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What about the Iraq invasion gave you the impression they were there to help to the people?
There are only villains in these proxy wars, no heroes, but the USA supposedly tried to fight against theocracies and extremist paramilitants. They always operated under the guise of rightous necessary intervention.
Sadly the results of their withdrawal from Afghanistan and release of 5000 taliban fighters, both Trump era decisions, shows the USA actually was holding back the tide of baddies in some cases.
You know, all the bombing and killing civilians. How else do you generously spread democracy?
It was trivial to buy a chicken on the local economy. You could get anything for 5 USD or less.
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It’s entirely possible he liberated it by buying it.
Like how my brother “rescued” a puppy by buying it from a pet store. (16 years ago, and yes I don’t approve of puppy mills. Pup now lives with me and is a good grumpy old man dog)
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Keep it civil. This whole comment chain is out of scope for NCD and the name calling isn’t needed.
What if it’s civil, but a war?
I also “liberated” a 32 inch TV out of Walmart the other day, which is now my assistant gunner when I boot up tf2.
Hmmm. The army here is made out of chicken
You cannot lose!
This is the future Jurassic Park warned us about.
Clever girls?
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What do you know about them? They obviously did teach it how to shoot.
Yeah, what good is an assistant gunner if it doesn’t shoot?
Spotting? It’s kind of the crux of the story.
Yo, no bullshit, my hen that sometimes rides on my shoulder catches shit I’d never notice.
Mind you, it isn’t armed enemies or anything, but those fucking squirrels are plottin on me.
And the rooster, that crazy bastard would rip a shotgun out of my hands amd shove it up the ass of a coyote. My feathered homie goes hard on predators
In my experience, roosters go hard on on everything. Well, some anyway. The other half are cuddly instead of aggressive.
This crazy bugger used to go hard on everything, but the last month or so, he’s turned into my buddy. Loves getting pets and scritches now. But he’ll still flex on anything that isn’t familiar unless it’s a hen lol
Dinosaur blood in their veins
Lucky, my roosters are either total assholes or complete cowards - but they both end up worthless when a fox or coyote show up.
Watched some documentary ages ago and pigeons’ reaction times are so fast it’s almost like we move in slow motion to them. 250ms is the average for humans without training and pigeons trained to peck when a certain stimuli was presented showed theirs is roughly 80ms. Smaller birds are even faster. Pretty neat.
I half-remember it being a thinking-reacting continuum. The less you think, the faster you react.
So therefore, head empty; twitchshot on point.
Saw something like that along with less length for signals to pass along neural pathways being a factor.
It also is down to their eyesight - humans see about 30 frames a second, birds see 120 frames a second. So most broadcast or recorded video appears as a series of still images for them.
Anyone who plays stealth games knows that you have to watch out for the chickens when you’re trying to be sneaky.
if Skyrim has taught me anything it’s that chickens are fucking snitches
And if Zelda has taught me anything it’s that chickens are unstoppable killing machines.
So easy to be a formidable force when the army just gives you equipment and training. Even with training, it’s a lot harder when you have no guns or armor. So leaving the army must suck.
