• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 days ago

    That’s a distinction without importance.

    What’s important is that it’s military hardware that they don’t need and which reinforces their toxic mindset of being at war against certain neighborhoods, ethnicities, income brackets, and political ideologies.

    • stickyprimer@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      The importance is in the mind of the person who knows more about armaments and wants to flex that on other people. This happens nonstop in gun control debates, as if you need the technical knowledge of a gunsmith to debate the regulation of lethal force.