More alarmingly, the laser weapon was deployed before the FAA actually shut down the airspace:

https://apnews.com/article/faa-el-paso-texas-air-space-close...

I'd say these trigger-happy clowns chasing tough-guy optics are going to get innocent people killed, but then they already have -- multiple times.

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mlinhares 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Yeah, a bit late for that. But this would likely kill more at once than they've had before, so would land a new record.

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ajross 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Even more alarmingly, a US cabinet secretary came out with a public statement about the incident that was a complete fabrication (labelling it a "cartel drone incursion"), has issued no retraction, and no one seems to care.

(Less alarmingly but more personal: my personal prediction to this effect, expressing distrust about statements like this in real time, got flagged right here on HN because apparently our leaders lying to our faces about news relevant to our community is "politics" and unseemly to discuss.)

	▲	kelipso 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
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hypeatei 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Remember, this is the same side that espoused "meritocracy" as their number one virtue. Instead, we got a cabinet full of loyalists and fascists that decided doing joint missions between the DoD and Border Patrol was a good idea.

Firing lasers at party balloons in American cities, everyone else be damned. OPSEC is clear.

	▲	hshdhdhj4444 a minute ago \| parent [-]
		To be fair, the current version of the party is nothing like the version of the party from even a decade ago. Whats disturbing is how so many people on that side have completely abandoned everything they ever said about their principles and values.

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outside1234 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Have you not seen the cowboy hat that she wears tho?

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NedF 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

[dead]

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wahnfrieden 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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	▲	foxyv 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> "The Party said that Oceania had never been in alliance with Eurasia. He, Winston Smith, knew that Oceania had been in alliance with Eurasia as short a time as four years ago. But where did that knowledge exist? Only in his own consciousness, which in any case must soon be annihilated. And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed -if all records told the same tale -- then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past,' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.' And yet the past, though of its nature alterable, never had been altered. Whatever was true now was true from everlasting to everlasting. It was quite simple. All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your own memory."
	▲	selimthegrim 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Was the party balloon made in China?
	▲	bakies 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		who did the news cite? the liar admin?

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throwaway5752 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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rogerrogerr 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You probably should forget that, because it isn’t true. There’s no credible link between FAA staffing cuts and the DCA midair.

That was a long-standing set of bad routes that was going to kill someone eventually.

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ExpertAdvisor01 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Have you even read the investigation?