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Re:US F-15E jet confirmed shot down over Iran as Tehran rele... by lejalv on Friday April 03, 2026 @10:07PM (#47634910)
So how is this not flagged, whereas this other post lasted literally minutes before being flagged? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47612053

75000+ palestinians killed, arguably one of the defining crimes of our age are not worth HN discussion (“politics”) but one F15E shot down in a war of choice is (apparently, “tech”)?

Re:US F-15E jet confirmed shot down over Iran as Tehran rele... by ilovecake1984 on Saturday April 04, 2026 @03:52AM (#47636873)
Americans are deeply racist.
Re:US F-15E jet confirmed shot down over Iran as Tehran rele... by GordonS on Saturday April 04, 2026 @03:56AM (#47636899)
You know why - Zionist bots and shills. Unsurprisingly, there are some absolutely disgusting "defences" of the genocidal, apartheid entity of Israel in that thread too.
Re:US F-15E jet confirmed shot down over Iran as Tehran rele... by cenamus on Saturday April 04, 2026 @04:28AM (#47637095)
You don't see anything about Russias invasion either. 1.5 million casualties and counting.
Re:US F-15E jet confirmed shot down over Iran as Tehran rele... by itsthecourier on Saturday April 04, 2026 @10:29AM (#47639373)
that's exactly my perspective on it. it's not about the ukranian, sudanese, Syrian, Irani or Yemeni.

those lives seem to be way less worthy of press judging for the coverage the left want to put in Palestinian people.

it doesn't follow the principle of equal value on lives but a political agenda and mountains of useful trend followers

Re:US F-15E jet confirmed shot down over Iran as Tehran rele... by bigyabai on Saturday April 04, 2026 @11:22AM (#47639809)
Unlike Ukraine, Yemen, Syria and Sudan, the United States has been involved in the Gaza war since Day 1.

It's not that the deaths are more valuable, it's that those are the civilian deaths the United States is most-culpable for.

Re:US F-15E jet confirmed shot down over Iran as Tehran rele... by watwut on Saturday April 04, 2026 @12:02PM (#47640231)
I mean, there is differe between civilians killed by soldiers and ... literally soldiers who are there for the purpose of killing locals.

Russian army can stop the invasion any time they decide and individual men who are there were hired as aggressors.

Re:US F-15E jet confirmed shot down over Iran as Tehran rele... by ranyume on Saturday April 04, 2026 @11:12AM (#47639707)
Let's not confuse things. One thing is lives lost at a war, another thing is lives lost at a genocide.
Re:US F-15E jet confirmed shot down over Iran as Tehran rele... by watwut on Saturday April 04, 2026 @12:03PM (#47640238)
One is victim if genocide. Other us someone who attempted genocide and was stopped by force.
Re:US F-15E jet confirmed shot down over Iran as Tehran rele... by partypartywoo on Saturday April 04, 2026 @11:04AM (#47639651)
Because the Russia vs Ukraine war is all fake propaganda videos, not a real war.

You can tell because they're all like "Russian gets shot in the ass by a drone LOL" with Metallica playing in the background, like they're not even trying.

I'm amazed anyone on HN fell for that lol.

Re:US F-15E jet confirmed shot down over Iran as Tehran rele... by edm0nd on Saturday April 04, 2026 @11:19AM (#47639783)
Hello psyop account, how are you doing?

>You can tell because they're all like "Russian gets shot in the ass by a drone LOL" with Metallica playing in the background, like they're not even trying.

Literally every war has combat footage coming out of it that has music overlayed into it. See /r/combatfootage.

Re:US F-15E jet confirmed shot down over Iran as Tehran rele... by tim333 on Saturday April 04, 2026 @05:14AM (#47637345)
Guidelines:

>Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.

I guess this gets in as interesting new phenomenon?

Re:US F-15E jet confirmed shot down over Iran as Tehran rele... by chakintosh on Saturday April 04, 2026 @07:05AM (#47637983)
> unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.

That' a cop-out.

Re:US F-15E jet confirmed shot down over Iran as Tehran rele... by finghin on Saturday April 04, 2026 @09:50AM (#47639060)
So is a televised genocide.
Re:US F-15E jet confirmed shot down over Iran as Tehran rele... by i_love_retros on Saturday April 04, 2026 @09:07AM (#47638753)
The obvious answer I am not allowed to say but it consists of two words and the second word is "money". Sorry but it's true.
Re:US F-15E jet confirmed shot down over Iran as Tehran rele... by doublerabbit on Saturday April 04, 2026 @12:26PM (#47640487)
And training AI. How else were they going to get real data to feed "AI-Weaponry".
Re:US F-15E jet confirmed shot down over Iran as Tehran rele... by hirako2000 on Saturday April 04, 2026 @10:18AM (#47639293)
Being the most technologically advanced aircraft in history, one could argue that's a tech novelty they got shut down by some obliterated, imprecise weaponry.
Re:US F-15E jet confirmed shot down over Iran as Tehran rele... by blitzar on Saturday April 04, 2026 @12:02PM (#47640234)
Being the most technologically advanced aircraft in 1969 ... a novelty indeed.
Re:US F-15E jet confirmed shot down over Iran as Tehran rele... by simoncion on Saturday April 04, 2026 @11:01AM (#47639634)
> Being the most technologically advanced aircraft in history...

More advanced than the F-117? The B-2? The SR-71? Nah.

Maybe you're confusing the F-15 and the F-35?

Re:US F-15E jet confirmed shot down over Iran as Tehran rele... by hirako2000 on Saturday April 04, 2026 @11:39AM (#47639987)
My mistake, yes I was. Some F-35 did get damaged recently, I assumed it would be another one since it made the top list of hackernews.

It stands peculiar this post wasn't flagged and removed as "politics".

I was being sarcastic, even if another F-35 was shot, why should it go through the strict guidelines.

Re:US F-15E jet confirmed shot down over Iran as Tehran rele... by randomNumber7 on Saturday April 04, 2026 @04:42PM (#47643145)
And another mistake (sorry). The F-22 is more advanced even if it is older.

The F-35 was developed because the US didn't want to export the F-22 tech to other countries.

Re:US F-15E jet confirmed shot down over Iran as Tehran rele... by firebot on Saturday April 04, 2026 @12:13PM (#47640351)
You really like arguing? And losing.

Feel free to fire up any AI and ask it about actual genocides.

That Palestine is losing its genocidal war against Israel is just comeuppance.

Re:US F-15E jet confirmed shot down over Iran as Tehran rele... by diordiderot on Saturday April 04, 2026 @12:26PM (#47640489)
> 75000+ palestinians killed

I believe that terrorist sympathizers like to call that "blowback"

Re:US F-15E jet confirmed shot down over Iran as Tehran rele... by frollogaston on Saturday April 04, 2026 @01:55PM (#47641495)
Yeah an F-15 shootdown is about tech. Palestinians being killed is horrible, but that doesn't mean it fits here.
Re:US F-15E jet confirmed shot down over Iran as Tehran rele... by garn810 on Sunday April 05, 2026 @02:01AM (#47646516)
the marketing department of "Empire" runs deep, even on Hacker News..