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The Bin Laden Navy SEAL, Military Parade Backlash, and Online Gun Nerds
from Pick Your Meat · #83
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3 minTim discusses the SEAL who claims credit for killing bin Laden getting into a Twitter controversy over opposing Trump's military parade, veering into a bit about online commenters obsessing over gun terminology like "clip" vs "magazine," and mocking the idea of a military parade showcasing precision missiles.
- 16:21Tim notes that Navy SEALs don't publicly claim credit for specific kills, especially bin Laden, as it violates unit decorum and team culture.
- 17:08The SEAL in question keeps emphasizing he 'helped kill' bin Laden, which Tim finds absurd—the body's in the ocean, so what's the ambiguity?
- 17:26Tim says the military parade is universally a bad idea.
- 17:41Gun nerds on the internet spent days roasting the SEAL for calling a magazine a 'clip' instead of correcting his actual military record.
- 18:11Tim points out these supposedly ex-military grammar police have killed people and displaced families, yet obsess over terminology instead of accountability.
- 18:29Nobody asked Trump to do a military parade—it wasn't a public demand.
- 18:57Tim jokes that showing military strength means parading smart missiles designed to find schools and blow them up in parade fashion.
- 19:16Ray suggests they could create bullets that sway around white people, prompting Tim to mock him as SJW Ray.