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What we don’t need are police that are. I don’t want police firing anti aircraft guns/missle barrages or having drone armies. It’s absolutely ridiculous to think that this is worth the thought, much less a single cent to fund.

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I don’t want police […] having drone armies.

But they want.
(and they haven’t even asked you)

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You know, there’s no reason we can’t have anti-drone fireworks.

They don’t really even need dangerous amounts of explosives, they just need a strong net to get caught in a prop.

Drones are pretty damn slow if you compare it to a rocket.

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I am thinking like silly string or something a bit more durable pressed into a ball. Launch it and some part of that sticky string is going to catch it.

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That works too. It just needs to get caught in a single prop for it to go down

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There’s exactly zero chance of that happening given the abundance of air traffic in the U.S. (Also specifically where these “drone” sightings are for obvious reasons).

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“The mystery in New Jersey”

There’s no mystery, the FAA issued an air restriction for the Picatinny area from Nov 21 to Dec 26, for “special security reasons” - aka some dark development group doing testing.

Why else would these things have nav lights?

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I dunno, why would these need nav lights if they are involved in some secret operation? Who says they are even nav lights?

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4 points

Jewish space lasers?

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The Maccabeam

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Serious question to your joke. What is all the animosity against Jews? Seems a lot of conspiracy theories put the blame on them, like they’re some sort of advanced alien race or something.

-Jewish Space Lasers -Jewish Weather Control -International Jewry and world domination

Hell, even South Park pokes fun at them. But why them and not any other religion? Is it rooted in the Holocaust and the propaganda Hitler used to justify his actions? Or does it stem from something prior?

It’s also weird to me that they are considered a race of people as well, instead of JUST a religion.

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Because they match standard nav light coloration.

And you need nav lights for takeoff and landing where other craft are coming/going

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And you need nav lights for takeoff and landing where other craft are coming/going

Says fucking who???

They don’t NEED lights. Only if you’re trying to abide by FAA laws would they NEED lights. They obviously don’t give a fuck about law because they are already breaking several. And these are drones we are talking about for fucks sake not regular aircraft.

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Maybe they only listen to AMD officials

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Oh, I get it now.

These “mysterious drones” have all been flying from the police this entire time so articles like this will be written which in turn helps the police get more funding.

Then the moment the police get their kill drones they’ll somehow solve the case!

(This is all tinfoil hat nonsense, of course)

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The unbelievable part is that THEY would bother using actual flying drones to manufacture an emergency. Deepfake videos and bot armies to spread them are too easy.

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There’s not as much tinfoil in your statement as you might initially think as sad as that is to say.

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The one thing stopping me from believing that, is that police aren’t clever enough to come up with something like this.

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Honestly drone defense should be handled by a branch of the military. The Air Force, navy or hell the national guard. Police can’t be trusted with our safety…

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I think its sufficient to say police cant be trusted

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Wym?

Just because every single day, we have a news story of police being a bad apple, from shooting a man seven times in the back of the head in a wheelchair, to countless rapes of young women, to assaulting people in their own homes, to physical abuse to their own spouses, to discharging their firearms unnecessarily like the time a cop shot at a woman at a gas station, or the time they told a bunch of kids to crawl for their lives because they were biking on the sidewalk, or the time a cop murdered a kid for waving a toy around…

I think you’re just not giving them a chance.

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