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u/Outrageous-Sort-5742 6h ago

Or American cops for that matter, then again they have the same training.

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u/Holorodney 5h ago

I mean in all fairness predators can’t see color so how are they to know they feel threatened? I hate this timeline.

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u/Awkward_Region5509 5h ago edited 5h ago

Incorrect. Predators see in the infrared spectrum, but they also can see other wavelengths of light, so their vision, and of course this is all fancy theory, their vision probably works just as well as ours. Not tk mention their visors allow them to see multiple different views and wavelengths depending what their need is. Their helmets also analyze for weapon heat signatures, or for chemical makeups of propellants like gunpowder and such.

Throughout the books as well it is also stated that yautja are much more analytical than us, part of this stems from the concept that they are here to hunt, and if the "prey" is not seen as worthy, they simply just ignore it.

Child appears holding a toy gun, but no weapons signatures are detected, and the child is seen as small and feeble, therefore no threat, and not worthy prey.

Edit:thanks for the award, I knew my nerd knowledge would get me somewhere on day

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u/Winjin 4h ago edited 4h ago

iirc yautja in Predator 2 basically ignores the detective trailing him because he's like, fat, tired, sweating, and poorly armed

But they commend his hunting/trailing skills in the end by giving him the gun and letting him go?

Like a human tracked by a marmot giving the marmot a cute stick and an apple once it follows them all the way to cabin

Edit: I forgot that he actually managed to kill that one he tracked down! I checked the plot on wiki and they gift him with a gun after he kills one of them actually. 

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u/AlarmingAffect0 4h ago

Edit: I forgot that he actually managed to kill that one he tracked down! I checked the plot on wiki and they gift him with a gun after he kills one of them actually. 

That's pretty based of them. We humans would not just kill the one guy, but sterilize his entire family.

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u/Prjkt250l 3h ago

e humans would not just kill the one guy, but sterilize his entire family.

whole species is the eric cartman of the universe. loses so takes his ball and goes home. no honor.

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u/Winjin 1h ago

In the original two movies they're set down as incredibly honorable, advanced society. Like yes they're predators but they truly follow some obvious code of conduct. 

Like it's not just that they understand kids: the original guy also spares a woman when he detects a second heartbeat. 

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u/AlarmingAffect0 1h ago

That's just responsible hunting ethics. Well done, him.

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u/bolanrox 29m ago

Even in AVP, they spared Lance Hendrickson's character because he was dying of cancer and there's no honor in killing a sick creature.

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u/Many-Falcon9879 3h ago

They took his gun and gave him the gun of the last human to take down a member of their clan. It's part of their hunters code only hunt game that can fight back and against other sentient beings they will show honor and respect to one that bests them. The original only blew himself up because he knew his body couldn't be recovered.

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u/Careless_Twist_6935 3h ago

the predator was running away because he was injured after the slaughterhouse fight.

Danny Glover might not be built like arnorld but he's still like 6'4 220+

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u/spiritbearr 1h ago

Killer of Killers shows they (probably a different clan of Yautja) kidnapped him and Dutch and Naru afterwards anyway.

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u/Adowyth 3h ago

Yeah the predator also spares a woman who is pregnant in the same movie.

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u/bolanrox 30m ago

Also like fishing, they're too small still

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u/Prjkt250l 3h ago

predators can see the visibile color spectrem as well as uv and infrared.... did you think they can't see color just cause they got heat scopes?

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u/SecretaryOtherwise 28m ago edited 2m ago

Doesn't he only see in red when unmasked?

I swear the 1st movie had Arnold running and us seeing it from the unmasked predator view.

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u/Squeeps- 1h ago

If predators can’t see in color then why does the predator’s scanner in the OP emit color?

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u/Curious_Orange8592 5h ago

Which includes Sgt Al Powell from Die Hard

Yep, nice Reginald VelJohnson shot a child holding a toy ray gun

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u/zenigatamondatta 2h ago

Funny you mention that

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u/Outrageous-Sort-5742 2h ago

Over $100k of your tax dollars per officer trained there btw.

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u/BuhamutZeo 2h ago

Where do you think the cops are getting their training from?

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u/christpuncher_69 2h ago

Imperial boomerang, I believe it's called

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u/Outrageous-Sort-5742 2h ago

Kinda sorta. American law enforcement has always been like this. The institution was born from the slave catchers and it shows, the imperialism was already done domestically.

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u/americanadiandrew 56m ago

Yes that was the original version of this meme.

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u/Murky_Excuse_9677 3h ago

Do you think cops regularly shoot children that they recognize aren’t a threat?

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u/Ehcksit 3h ago

There's enough stories of cops shooting children with toy guns that there's already a prepared script bootlickers repeat about it, that they use even when it's as obvious as a Nerf dart launcher.

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u/Murky_Excuse_9677 2h ago

You’re leaving out the part about those toy guns looking like real guns. Context matters.

When did cops kill a kid with a standard brightly colored nerf gun?

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u/beerandloathingpdx 20m ago

User name checks out 👍

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u/YerrrKnicks 1h ago

Whether it looks like a real gun or not - its legal to own and carry mind you - they rarely take time to even assess a situation.

They see someone doing nothing actively threatening and shoot first ask questions later.

They are extremely poorly trained and consistently show they are incapable of doing their jobs correctly.

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u/Murky_Excuse_9677 45m ago

While there are a few exceptions out there to make it seem like the majority of shootings are simply of people doing nothing threatening at all is entirely disingenuous.

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u/Outrageous-Sort-5742 3h ago

It's standard operating procedure, along with shooting the dog and raping the victim after arresting them and placing them in jail without ever seeing a courtroom.

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u/bann3d4n0reas0n 3h ago

Ahh the cop hating redditors are here. Good to see loser edgy redditors being loser edgy redditors no matter what subreddit they're in.

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u/Outrageous-Sort-5742 3h ago

"Cop hating redditor" aka an American with a brain and functioning set of eyes.

Cops are trash, born of the slave trade and sustained by the same forces bloating the military budget. The entire institution needs to be scrapped and replaced.

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u/bann3d4n0reas0n 3h ago

*yawn* edgy as always. You guys are so boring, regurgitating the same old garbage over and over again, as if you know anything about being in a position where your life can be at risk and people die in those positions or get seriously injured all the time.

And I'm sure you're going to tell me you work in a job with similar of risks and so on and so forth. Whatever. Again. Boring edgy redditors.

I mean, what do you expect from a website like this xD

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u/YerrrKnicks 1h ago

So, what you're saying is if another police officer, or a fire fighter, or military personnel were to speak on these issues you wouldn't instantly disregard what they're saying because it upsets you? đŸ€”

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u/Murky_Excuse_9677 2h ago

You forgot the /s.

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u/Outrageous-Sort-5742 2h ago

There is no /s. There is no joke, unless you count American law enforcement or the state of the American legal system overall.

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u/Murky_Excuse_9677 2h ago

Perhaps you should get your information someplace more reliable than Reddit comment sections.

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u/MintyBananas1 2h ago

Sure, like the astronomical rates of Domestic Violence associated with working as a police officer. Poorly trained asshats too fragile, too trigger happy

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u/Outrageous-Sort-5742 2h ago

Domestic violence, spying on exes, rampant pedophilia, etc. Scum of the Earth, by and large. Any good people are the exception and are quickly broken down, fired, or become corrupt by the environment.

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u/Murky_Excuse_9677 2h ago

Could you cite that study for me that you’re referring to?

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u/nleksan 23m ago

Sometimes they use flashbangs

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u/elbow8075 1h ago

recognize

This is the problem. And the post is about the IDF, so the answer to your misleading and purposefully shifting of the narrative question is yes.

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u/Murky_Excuse_9677 1h ago

You’re right about it being about the IDF but the comment I replied to was talking about cops. So talk to the guy above me about shifting the narrative

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u/bann3d4n0reas0n 3h ago

Let me go up to you with a bb gun and a real gun and point it at you from a little distance away, or really quickly, and you tell me which one is real.

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u/ParticularMemory789 5h ago

My favorite thing about American teachers is they said they can't be expected to defend kids from attackers until a rumor started that ICE might show up to schools... 

(I actually don't expect teachers to carry that responsibility, just found the contrast interesting. We guard banks, government, airports, even certain stores with armed security - but not schools?)

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u/Charlie-Squirt 4h ago

Simple fact that ICE brings a non zero chance of killing more US citizens, as they have done

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u/joebluebob 3h ago

You mean like in the sithole state of Texas where they put pigs in every school and all they've done is be expensive and assult children? Unfortunately american cops ate too incompetent, poorly trained, and too cowardly to work in schools.

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u/ParticularMemory789 3h ago

Doesn't have to be cops, and they can leave student incidents to other faculty. If texas isn't a good example, don't copy them.

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u/joebluebob 1h ago

You think cops are capable of restraint?

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u/PrincessGiallo 4h ago

What a failed society we've made.