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[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)
[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

This story gets reused in every other conflict its so stupid. Russia also supposedly had kamikaze dolphins at some point. Meanwhile there is actual, publicly available proof of the US doing using dolphins for military purposes. Every accusation....

[–] underisk@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] grue@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago

...and it's still an ongoing thing: they were deployed in the Iraq war.

Which means my takeaway is that using dolphins for warfare presumably actually works and therefore wouldn't even be weird for Iran to be doing too.

The Wikipedia article does say that...

The Navy stated that since dolphins cannot discern the difference between enemy and friendly vessels, or divers and swimmers, this would be a haphazard means of warfare

...so the "strapping mines to [them]" aspect of the tweet does seem a little far-fetched, though.

[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 6 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

"Last Hope" this some copium of the highest caliber. Iran is easily winning this war. They don't need desperate measures, they have drones.

[–] j5y7@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 hours ago

And an easily defensible position. And the ability to impose severe costs on their enemy at little cost to themselves. It's history's stupidest war carried out by history's stupidest people.

[–] Darkard@lemmy.world 22 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

"Iran is putting bombs on dolphins!"

Magas: "That's awful! Those poor animals!"

"Global warming is destroying their habitats"

Magas: "Fuck those dumb fish, I need my truck to get to cracker barrel"

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 9 points 10 hours ago

Flag of iran he used in this post is the monarchist one, which makes it even funnier.

[–] Aedis@lemmy.world 6 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Someone call NCD!

Also wasn't this a GDI weapon or a Ally weapon in a Command & Conquer game?

[–] Somsphet@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 hours ago

Red alert 3, ally weapon, countered the mind controlled squids I think

[–] Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 6 hours ago

Red Alert 2 IIRC. I believe it belonged to Yuris faction.

BRB reinstalling.

[–] Twongo@lemmy.ml 10 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

the average am*riKKKan has the reading comprehension of a 6th grader.

they got people into supporting the iraq war, they got people believing that puerto ricans eat dogs and cats. they will make people believe this bs.

[–] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

At this point, it's a LOT of sunk cost.

[–] someone@sopuli.xyz 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

That's why I stopped following news years ago.

[–] SirSmoothAES@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 4 hours ago

Fox News actually argued in court they're not news, but entertainment. Always interesting to remember.

[–] Saymaz@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Is that a diasporoid account posting Fox News slop?

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 hours ago

Nawfal is a Zionist shill frequently pretending to care about both sides but then pushing the Israeli agenda when push comes to shove