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  • thenightisdark@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    By this definition, 9/11 proves that a jumbo jet is a WMD. I don’t know if I can call a jumbo jet a WMD.

    • orrk@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      9/11 only had its effect because they hit the twin towers, chemical weapons can kill entire areas

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        1 year ago

        I don’t understand the point you’re making. If airplanes hitting a building can do the same damages chemical weapons…

        Chemical weapons can kill entire areas just like planes hitting buildings. I’m a licensed pilot.

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          1 year ago

          what killed people was the damage to the buildings not the planes themselves, if the twin towers had been a chemical plant (especially one making something like phosgene, mustard gas or chlorine gas) in the middle of NY, the death toll would have made 9/11 look like a wet fart

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            1 year ago

            The chemical plant cannot be a WMD.

            Places cannot be WMD. This is inherent in the word weapon a weapon is not a place. The w in WMD makes it not a place

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              1 year ago

              hey, I was arguing with the logic of planes are a WMD because 9/11, pointing out that if plans would be a WMD because the WTC towers collapsing killing a lot of people, a chemical plant would be way worse.

              but in effect a plane is not much different from the larger cruise missiles

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        1 year ago

        Didn’t need to kill a millions. I’m just saying that the jet hitting a building kills as many as a chemical weapon can.

        Chemical weapons not going to kill more people than 9/11.

      • zephyreks@lemmy.ca
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        1 year ago

        How the fuck are 14 155mm shells filled with mustard gas from 1980 and a few kilograms of expired growth media going to kill millions of people?