President Biden told reporters Wednesday that Palestinian terrorists have “gotta learn how to shoot straight” — one day after an explosion outside a hospital in the Gaza Strip.

“I’m not suggesting that Hamas deliberately did it,” the president said at Ramstein Air Base in Germany en route back to Washington after visiting Israel earlier in the day.

“It’s that old thing: Gotta learn how to shoot straight,” Biden went on.

“It’s not the first time that Hamas has launched something that didn’t function very well.”

wow, this fucking sucks Joe

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      Reminder that the truth of the Emperor eating 1,000 souls a day, something supposed to be so horrific that if the masses learned of it the entire Imperium would dissolve into civil war, is substantially less than the peak daily deaths from COVID in the US (around 4k).

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        It’s probably less than the daily deaths from malnutrition, homelessness, and despair. Remember kids, Omelas is a massive improvement

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        Also it’s ostensibly somewhat rational in the lore, at least compared to lots of the Imperium’s nonsense. Without doing it interstellar travel becomes impossible, and the people they’re throwing into the fire would have been euthanized anyway since they randomly turn into satan portals if they can’t handle their shit.

        40K’s satire mostly isn’t only actually about exaggerating the size or nature of atrocities (not that it doesn’t do that), it’s often in demonstrating how utterly batshit the universe would have to be for things like that to be halfway rational.