Kliban by B. Kliban for July 11, 2022

Russian generals, Ukranian babies. Sorry, but that’s the world of today.

Well, of course. Practice with such disposable “soft kill weapons” gives generals a way to gauge each others’ abilities on an actual battlefield. And particularly plump and succulent infants are gathered and served at Dinner [conf. Swift, “A Modest Proposal”] /S

https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/soft_kill

Oh, so this is why Roe v. Wade was reversed…

Is this North Korean propaganda?

On a very basic level, that’s pretty much how it works, except the Generals don’t have to do the actual killing themselves.

Cannon fodder.

Where did the pile come from?

Well Kliban, you convinced me. War is bad.

Ouch! Way too true. Other games involve hitting mothers with unwanted children.

“It’s always the old who lead us to the war,

Always the young to fall…"

—Phil Ochs (R.I.P.)

who said they are Ukrainian Generals? Why are you sorry?

Sadly, that’s about what children are worth these days.

Poor taste for this point in time.