cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/58557
US Africa Command announced that its forces launched a series of airstrikes in Somalia in recent days as the Trump administration continues a heavy bombing campaign in the country, which receives virtually no US media coverage. AFRICOM announced new airstrikes that it said were launched against al-Shabaab in different parts of southern Somalia on June […]
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Obama voice: “We air striked some folks.”
We tortured some folks.
When Obama made that mistake - it must have taken me at least five minutes to figure out why. We all misspeak. But I knew this case wasn’t a garden variety slip of the tongue. There was a reason. Finally - I realized the obvious. “Folks” is a very non-Obama word. Once he started running for president - he must’ve practiced using it naturally so he’d never seem stiff and Spock-like to folks when he used it. But when torture came up - like an ESL student trying to avoid making a mistake with an uncomfortable slang - he made one.
maybe it’s a sign that he think of the electorate and the people who got tortured as the same thing. you know. folks. morons. not the sort of people who get to take smiling photos with george bush and his wife.
I guess “we tortured some hew-mons”
would have, you know, humanized them too much
i wish they rebooted the ferengi enough to make them stop being cartoonish are more like their real life inspiration here.