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Spooky Ice fren❄️ 🎃 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Same can be said for flesh armies
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Sick Burn, Bro | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 didn't you see the US's flesh army marching in from Mexico?
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Merryusconi Fever :sonnenrad: 🎄 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +8 
 Flesh armies learn on the spot and don't have to be retrained when the enemy devices new strategy. Plus men with minor injuries keep working, while electronics with minor issues are just a bunch of useless steel (see any modern car or modern computer). Plus the opportunity cost, every factory making robots is not making shells.

Russian soldier put it better

https://i.poastcdn.org/73d5a79d8c6bf978f6bdee73b63c92a8a1370892e2d8a102b85fa464a44fd366.MOV
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of nothing | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @Merryusconi Fever :sonnenrad: 🎄 @Spooky Ice fren❄️ 🎃 @Sick Burn, Bro the error of the age is
1. this outcome is inevitable.
2. therefore, this outcome will happen soon.
people are acting as if the future is now when it's probably hundreds of years off yet. Cutting off their genitals for it, and losing armies over it. And if you argue against replacing known problems with unknown problems, they call you a luddite.
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Merryusconi Fever :sonnenrad: 🎄 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Men have a tendency to anthropomorphize all kinds of objects. Computers and electronics have a place in war (i.e. Punching some numbers and get some motors to sight your arty perfectly and in seconds, or having fast rocket perfectly on target from miles away, or in your factories) but it won't be human shaped steel.
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Sick Burn, Bro | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +3 
 "here buy our stuff" <-- he nailed it and didn't even realize.
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Mister Coonster | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 >best tech in the world
>give it to niggers
>"Hey it doesn't work!"