I’d just like to thank everyone for doing their part, posting, reposting, and fear mongering it.
Finally outright won a war, huh?
Well done, please don’t get a taste for it. It’s usually a good thing that the American public can pull the American military out and kinda hold them back from covering little nations in fire and chemical weapons.
America and its “wars against…”
America hasn’t won any war since WWII, and that includes wars against drugs, countries, people, religions, etc. I highly doubt they won this one. I remember “mission accomplished”
armed conflicts
I mean there is an argument that though they lost a lot of battles they did eventually win the cold war.
Did they, now?
The cold war ended?
Yes, Russia became capitalist so
Idk, I think Russia might have won…
It’s a good joke but American oligarchs are much richer than Russian ones
Russians did most of the winning in WWII too. What with being on the other side of the ocean and all
Are you high?
If not, what are your talking about? Are you a tankie type or something?
“You”? This isn’t about me, I wasn’t there. Don’t try to make this about me.
If you have issues, take them against the following text.
Who did most of the winning in WWII europe théâtre. Define by reversing momentum of the nazis, demoralizing and physically destroying their ability to wage war. ChatGPT said: GPT Icon
In the European theater of World War II, the Soviet Union and its Red Army were primarily responsible for reversing Nazi momentum, demoralizing their forces, and physically destroying much of their ability to wage war. This effort was particularly evident on the Eastern Front, which was the largest and bloodiest theater of the war.
Key points:
Reversing Momentum: The Nazis suffered a critical turning point in the Battle of Stalingrad (1942-1943), where the Soviet forces encircled and destroyed the German 6th Army. This was a devastating blow to the Wehrmacht and marked the beginning of a relentless Soviet advance westward. Later, the Battle of Kursk (July 1943) further shattered Nazi momentum. It was the largest tank battle in history, and the German forces failed to regain the initiative. Demoralizing the Nazis: The Soviet Union inflicted heavy casualties on German forces, undermining their morale. Between 1941 and 1945, the Eastern Front accounted for the vast majority of German military deaths. The relentless Soviet offensives in 1944 (e.g., Operation Bagration) destroyed entire German army groups and forced retreat after retreat, creating a sense of inevitability for Nazi defeat. Physical Destruction of the Nazi War Machine: The Red Army recaptured vast swaths of territory, including Eastern Europe and eventually Berlin, systematically dismantling German infrastructure and military capability. The sheer scale of the Soviet effort is evident in the numbers: an estimated 80% of German military losses in World War II occurred on the Eastern Front.That said, the Western Allies (primarily the United States, the United Kingdom, and their allies) played a crucial role in the overall war effort. They mounted the D-Day invasion (June 6, 1944), liberated Western Europe, and engaged in a strategic bombing campaign that weakened Germany’s industrial base. The Western Front forced Germany into a two-front war, accelerating their defeat.
In conclusion, while the Western Allies made vital contributions, the Soviet Union was primarily responsible for breaking the Nazi war machine in Europe, especially through the massive battles and offensives of the Eastern Front.
Obviously
sucks that Canadians can’t win wars either, eh?
We don’t start or lose them either.
Tell that to generations of First Nations peoples.
On one hand, I’d argue it was the British who started that.
On the other hand, we definitely didn’t stop it.
to be fair slaughters are a lot like Pringles
It’s tough to get the last one?
you can’t just stop halfway through
That’s not a war. That’s a slaughter.
War against Murder CEOs remains unresolved.
It sounds stupid but I really want to imagine China was behind all this as a test run of bio warfare via invasive species and there’s just some random CCP agent going Rats! We’ve been foiled again. Start dumping more corn syrup into our honey exports!
It was wild seeing researchers bait them with Meat and tie flags to them, but the fact that this strategy actually worked longterm is beyond wild.
Sorry what
They used the flags as tracking targets for cameras, usually mounted to drones, and then followed the murder hornets back to their hives. EXAMPLE VIDEO
That is WILD
Surly other methods too?
Yeah, one team tied a phone tag on them with dental floss to track a little easier or over longer distance. Another group used a BlueTooth device. It took about a year for scientists in the USA to track down a single nest in 2020-2021 when it first started. A public awareness campaign was able to provide samples and the government agencies and labs with the FDA and local agriculture were able to develop new baits for them which unfortunately had local species casualties as well. I’m not sure if a pesticide was ever developed specifically for them.
Fun fact, multiple species of giant Asian hornets were discovered around the same time period in the Washington State region and Canada.
This is great! I had no idea.
I don’t want to be the guy on the internet that says “they should have done x” as though the scientists aren’t experts in their field, but I do wonder why they didn’t use a bright orange flag or something. The white flag worked well enough, though.
Because the orange didn’t match their skin tone
George Bush “Mission Accomplished” or…
Too bad.
braaaap suspiciously murder hornet shaped stomach
[✓] Small Pox
[✓] Murder Hornets
[ ] Twitter
We’re almost there, humanity!
Can’t you just literally put an [X] for Twitter?
Ex-twitter
Deceased! Passed it’s due! Joined the choir invisible!
X-Twitter also decent choice
[❌] Twitter
[ ] X
margin-left: -20px[X] Twitter
[X] The App Formerly Known as Twitter
[Twitter] Twitter
Yes, the only three problems!
Oh wait someone has started unchecking all the previously checked boxes
IS THAT RFK WITH A FOLDING CHAIR?!
[ ] Polio
[ ] Mumps
Honestly I wouldn’t be surprised if RFK Jr. Came out in favor of murder hornets
He needs more carcasses for his falcon
Small pox won’t be checked for long.
Declared extinct in the wild by the WHO in 1980.
I’m honestly surprised by that. I figured it was still getting swapped around by sailors on rare occasion, but it turns out there have been no recorded cases since 1977.
RFK will probably support reintroduction, so…
What does Pete Townshend have to do with any of this?
Rest assured, he won’t get fooled again
“Yeah, yeah, we’re totally eradicated. All is now fine, there’s nothing to worry about. Sleep well!” - Sneaky Murder Hornet.
“Somehow, the murder hornets have returned.”
lol
– Ladies and gentlemen, we got’em.
*breakcore starts blasting*
Would have been solved much quicker if they where ceo killing hornets
LMAO. Its sad that this is so funny because its true.
Uhh, first win since WW2. Congrats.
How about every fucking World Series there bucko? Nice try!
And every Superbowl!
I’m guessing you mean the mislabeled North American Championship?
(cough desert storm)
Smallpox?
(camera focuses on the news playing on a TV in a home in the countryside, slowly pulling back away from the monitor)
“…thanks to their efforts, experts have now stated with certainty that this threat has been eradicated…”
(the camera has pulled back enough that the screen is framed by an outside window with a tree trunk coming into frame from the right)
“…and many communities in the northwest united states can breathe easier knowing that these dreaded hornets are no longer found on our shores. Reporting from Seattle…”
(focus shifts to the tree bark. Buzzing is heard, getting louder and louder until a single murder hornet queen lands on the tree. Cut to black. Roll credits)
Yeah sure “murder hornets”. Like “murder japs”, “murder communists”, “murder vietnamese”, “murder gays”, “murder blacks” or “murder arabs” before. I think I’ll hold off celebrating until I know how much oil those hornets had in stock.
I hadnt heard “murder gays”. Not sure that one is very dangerous sounding. Statistically speaking, dangerous gay people must exist, I just have never met one personally. Odd.
Well, check Jeffrey Dahmer media portrayal. It fed well into the “gay panic” of the times. Check this article from 1994: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-11-29-mn-2780-story.html Emphasis of the lust, homoeroticism etc. being the driving factor of the murders, while there are no mentions of diagnosed mental disorders. And yeah, “murder gay” sold far worse than, for example, “murder black” which is a timeless classic media go to each time any socioeconomic strife involving any black people happens. Seemingly the public was less receptive of the “murder gay” narrative so they eventually moved on.
why so mad bro? did a murder hornet kill your family and now you’re pissed because the farmers of America didn’t kill them faster?
Hey man, I don’t disagree with you.
However, I think if you take every article you read and turn it into, “meanwhile I am waiting for someone to fix the planer.” You are not really doing much. All of us, including myself, want what you want but those are things that are irrelevant to this article and we should take to things that are relevant.
Fuck fascism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, and anything else that is down right degrading to any human being who is just trying to be happy
In the same vain though, fuck hornets, fuck those little murderous monstrosities.
That was a joke about USA assigning threatening labels to anything it threatens or exploits to make public afraid of it instead of being supportive of it. As most jokes, it based on the subversion of expectations, which in this case was the suggestion that hornets are good and misunderstood. Comparing them and what they’re doing to bees to gay or black people was intended as a sprinkle of dark humor, implying their (hornets!) destructive nature finds parrarels with the multitude of oppressed kinds of people.
Way to tell me I’m unfunny and my sense of humor sucks, man (jk)
That was a joke about USA assigning threatening labels to anything it threatens or exploits to make public afraid of it instead of being supportive of it. As most jokes, it based on the subversion of expectations, which in this case was the suggestion that hornets are good and misunderstood. Comparing them and what they’re doing to bees to gay or black people was intended as a sprinkle of dark humor, implying their (hornets!) destructive nature finds parrarels with the multitude of oppressed kinds of people.
I think you might want to go back to some of your source material and rework it if you think it’s funny.
Way to tell me I’m unfunny and my sense of humor sucks, man (jk)
2edgy4me maybe on 4chan it might do better
Funny, that’s exactly a reply one would expect from a 4chan dweller. Is there a miniority or other group of people that USA demonized for profit that you’re angry I’ve neglected to mention in this joke about imperialism and hornets, or was there something else that triggered you to go in swinging with insults? Apparently at least one other person found it funny, so I feel like the reason the joke didn’t land with you might have to do with you not being the target audience, whatever it might be.
Is there a miniority or other group of people that USA demonized for profit that you’re angry I’ve neglected to mention in this joke about imperialism and hornets, or was there something else that triggered you to go in swinging with insults?
no, I just found your commentary devoid of any real purpose. it lacked the thoughtfulness and effort of a good joke and took extreme liberties in joining the topic of murder hornets and American prejudices and imperialism.
Apparently at least one other person found it funny, so I feel like the reason the joke didn’t land with you might have to do with you not being the target audience, whatever it might be.
you are correct, the joke didn’t land with me, but not for the reasons you expressed. they didn’t land with me because I failed to see the connection between the efforts taken by thousands of people to fight off an invasive species and imperialism.
so won’t you please expound upon what the correlation between the two are for me? maybe then I might get the joke and I’ll gladly apologize.
You seem to misunderstand humor. It is humorous specifically because there is no link between murder hornets and the aformentioned groups of people that USA “waged wars against”. The fact that you’re stressing that the joke “took extreme liberties” is kind of absurd - that is the point, to subvert expectations. Which is a part I already explained in the comment in which I explained the joke once. Let me go in for a deeper dive.
The language of “USA waging wars on XYZ” is often used by media to fabricate distorted view on reality, in which a group of people is presented as threatening to the country despite the opposite being the case. That language is well known and it is well estabilished as a useful propaganda tool. Reaction to usage of that language in cases that warrant outrage (as in, for example, for groups of people I’ve mentioned in my first comment) would often be one full of sympathy towards the victims and, at the very least, distrust towards the media outlet that used it. All of that sits well within the expectations of the reader.
The aptly named murder hornets however murder bees, which almost everyone knows is a bad thing for the world in general. There isn’t much things that would make people in general think “that’s bad”. They do not have a good reputation and none reedeming qualities.
They’re not what you would expect one to defend, you would not accuse USA of a psy op to smear their name, and you would not think that they perhaps have a stockpile of oil that that old, dastardly United States of A wanted to steal. And that’s the subversion of expectation, portraying the murder hornets as victims of USA propaganda and comparing them to unjustly prosecuted people. That’s the humorous part. Do you get it now?
You’re trying to somehow tie it to the work of people that pulled this off, but you only could go for calling that disrespectful if you believed any disrespect was meant, and that would require you to believe my (already explained) joke was meant as serious defence of the hornets. And I’m sorry, but that’s just dumb. I don’t feel like you misunderstood the joke, but rather that you’re trolling for the sake of rage baiting. I’d appreciate it if you stopped.
And if you understood all that and still feel like my joke wasn’t funny, I’m sorry, it does seem you aren’t a part of audience that this joke was meant for, and my frivolous joke-comment written while morning-pooping did not brighten your day. I’m sure something else will, as long as you put effort to find it. Good luck!
For what it’s worth, I chuckled at your comment. :-)
I appreciate that, thank you.
