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No, murdered by sending out drones in random directions without any targeting info. These things and their programming just pop out of thin air, after all. And then they track just by scent, for weeks even.

I'm pretty sure that's not how drones work. They're not autonomous, self-aware predators that can smell a Muslim from a mile away, and make their own decisions about when and how and who to kill. I'm pretty sure there's always a pilot with a joystick watching a camera and pulling a trigger.

Not that that makes it any better, but unless you can provide some proof what you're describing seems like science fiction.




I was being sarcastic.

I'm pretty sure there's always a pilot with a joystick watching a camera and pulling a trigger.

Just like there is always a president near the top signing the order, in some shape or other. And: people collecting intelligence about whoever they are asked to collect intelligence about, because that's just the "requirements handed down to them". Which was the point I hid under my sarcasm.


It's getting hard to tell lately. My mistake.




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