Anonymous ID: 5d61c9 Nov. 11, 2024, 10:50 a.m. No.21963888   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>3899

>>21963826

>At a certain point, i really think (they) would rather kill the platforms than be forced into allowing the truth.

Platforms are not the only potential targets. [They] have many options as well as suitable assets to exercise them. There are workarounds, but submarine fiber optic cables are a point of vulnerability. Satellites are as well. It seems the good guys prepared for [them] killing conventional connectivity by using secure line-of-sight laser communications and satellite constellations in low-earth orbit. Starlink is ready.

Anonymous ID: 5d61c9 Nov. 11, 2024, 11:48 a.m. No.21964268   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

>>21964226

Tens of millions sent to slaughter by those who would reduce our surplus population.

 

Wilfred Owen, who wrote some of the best British poetry on World War I, composed nearly all of his poems in slightly over a year, from August 1917 to September 1918. In November 1918 he was killed in action at the age of 25, one week before the Armistice.

 

Dulce et Decorum Est

 

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By Wilfred Owen

Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,

Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,

Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs,

And towards our distant rest began to trudge.

Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots,

But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;

Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots

Of gas-shells dropping softly behind.

 

Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!โ€”An ecstasy of fumbling

Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time,

But someone still was yelling out and stumbling

And floundโ€™ring like a man in fire or lime.โ€”

Dim through the misty panes and thick green light,

As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.

 

In all my dreams before my helpless sight,

He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.

 

If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace

Behind the wagon that we flung him in,

And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,

His hanging face, like a devilโ€™s sick of sin;

If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood

Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,

Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud

Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,โ€”

My friend, you would not tell with such high zest

To children ardent for some desperate glory,

The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est

Pro patria mori.

 

Notes:

Latin phrase is from the Roman poet Horace: โ€œIt is sweet and fitting to die for oneโ€™s country.โ€

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/wilfred-owen