r/emergencymedicine 1d ago

Discussion Israel killed 15 paramedics, then tried to burry them and their ambulances in a mass grave to hide the evidence

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u/EaZy_MD ED Attending 1d ago

I like to try and pretend the hundreds of thousands of dollars of my tax dollars Uncle Sam gets from me isn’t paying for this…but I know better. This is so damn shameful. War criminals.

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u/workerbotsuperhero 1d ago

How many suffering Americans could get healthcare for the $3 billion handed to them every year? 

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u/NurseKdog RN 1d ago

At least 5 of his friends.

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u/Ok-Concentrate636 1d ago

In addition to the $50+ billion spent on the iranian war which yielded nothing

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u/Paramedickhead Paramedic 9h ago

As opposed to the billions sent to Iran in bribe money to not develop a nuclear program (which they did anyway)?

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u/Ok-Concentrate636 8h ago

No you are wrong. First you need to differentiate between a nuclear program and nuclear bomb. They did not develop a nuclear bomb and followed obama’s established agreement, there was very strict oversight and very little room to hide malicious activity, if they tried. There also isn’t any evidence of them having a nuclear bomb anyhow so this stance isn’t objective.

Now lets talk about trump. Obama unfreezed less than £6 billion worths of assets to iran for them complying with the agreement, whereas trumps latest peace agreement includes £300 billion in unfrozen assets which he calls “investments”, and very likely iran will be able to charge tolls at the strait, incurring billions of $ a year

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u/Paramedickhead Paramedic 8h ago

You’re right. There isn’t any evidence of them having a nuclear bomb.

However, when you’re splitting hairs, you’re ignoring the reality of the situation.

Iran was using their program to develop “weapons grade” uranium which is certainly the precursor for a nuclear bomb. And given their proxy war against the US over the past several years, who do you think their target would have been?

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u/Ok-Concentrate636 8h ago edited 7h ago

Iran wasn’t using the program to develop weapon grade uranium. As I said there was very strict oversight. The international atomic agency set the limit of enrichment at around ~3.6% compared to the 90% you need for weapon grade. You would have to provide an objective source if you want to contradict.

Nuclear bombs are inherently used as deterrents not as battlefield weapons, the mere existence of a nuclear bomb would deter both israel and US from any preemptive wars like they have carried out 90 days ago. Also you are missing the fact that it was US that placed tens of bases in all of irans neighbouring cities to intimidate, started the war against iran, and killed half of irans government on day 1. As for israel, the only threat to its dominance in middle east is iran, its carried out sabotage and spy activities for decades. They have threatened irans sovereignty and right for many many decades.

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u/AwareMention Physician 1d ago

What a stupid question. Go look how much medicare costs and answer your own question. Not to mention single payer systems like Canada are awful.

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u/MrCarey RN 1d ago

Is our current situation much better? Took 1 year for my demented mother in law to establish care for neuro, and she got dropped because she didn’t have a yearly referral, even though she obviously still has fucking dementia. She has great insurance and federally retired, btw.

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u/rigiboto01 1d ago

I mean our system is terrible also. With people having to ration medication like insulin to the point that they die. People having to choose between paying thousands of dollars for their medication a month or buying food. So please don’t pretend that we have good healthcare. The number of times I saw people refusing to get on the ambulance because they couldn’t afford it when they legitimately needed it was horrifically high.

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u/Paramedickhead Paramedic 9h ago

We don’t have to build an awful system like Canada.

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u/Brodie1567 Nurse Practitioner 1d ago

The most moral army!

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u/G3ntlereli3f19 1d ago

The absolute disregard for the sanctity of medical personnel and ambulances in this conflict is completely gut-wrenching for anyone working in the field.

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u/wizard_of_aws 1d ago

They are trying to murder an entire culture of people. This is systematic.

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u/rathernot124 1d ago

Word for that is genocide

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u/helge-a 1d ago

They are not trying in my opinion. They are very successfully doing it.

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u/TheResuscitologist 1d ago

I mean thats certainly not validated by data, population studies, birth rates etc. Criticize all you want but lets be honest about our criticism

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u/_Kingbeard_ 1d ago

No they are not, this is made up to make Israel look bad

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u/NuYawker Paramedic 1d ago

Is that why Israel admitted this was a professional mistake?

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u/buttpugggs Paramedic (UK) 1d ago

Are you saying this video isn't real??

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u/the_silent_redditor 1d ago

Quick! Let’s get the US to deprive their own citizens of healthcare and education so Israel can have US tax dollars pay for theirs! A country where Americans would be spat on and assaulted for not being the correct religion! No WORRIES sir!

Double tap, triple tap, who gives a shit!? 😜

Send send send 💸💸💸

US citizen run over by a bulldozer!? Let’s have pancakes! And let’s SEND more cash!

Intellectually disabled man is murdered by a soldier whilst walking to a care facility with a carer!? That’s bad right? NOPE fuck that let’s acquit and forget!

But most importantly, let’s vocally support Israel above our own interests publicly to the death.

And more important beyond that.. send send SEND 🤑🤑🤑

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u/MrCarey RN 1d ago

I don’t understand how everyone around the world can’t just agree that Israel is really fucked up. I hate that so much of our tax dollars supports their genocidal behavior.

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u/sebila Paramedic 1d ago

israel has just released their budget and have allocated 730 million USD for "public diplomacy" (hasbara in hebrew) basically trying to shape public opinion using pro israel talking points. using PR companies to ban and suppress social media critical of Israel. I got banned on worldnews a couple days ago, for commenting in a thread full of astroturfing and 1 month accounts making the same old pro-israel propaganda talking points. There were hundreds of deleted comments at the bottom. social media is just another battleground these days... good to see r/emergencymedicine seems to be on the right track though!

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u/the_silent_redditor 1d ago

Being banned on that sub is just a rite of passage and a badge to wear if you’ve been here long enough.

Absolute cesspool of a place.

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u/MrCarey RN 1d ago edited 1d ago

I mean that alone lets me know they can fuck right off, because they know they’re pieces of shit.

All the pro-genociders have shown up with their downvotes!

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u/dfts6104 1d ago

Is this the same incident from over a year ago, or did something similar happen again? Or is the video released new? Just curious

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u/sebila Paramedic 1d ago

there's some more recent footage from southern lebanon showing a double tap clearly targeting rescue responders. video is taken on cell phone from across the street... went viral about 2 weeks ago. and a few weeks before that there was another episode, IIRC it was a triple tap, not lebanon though, I cant remember exactly where it was. videos shouldn't be hard to find.

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u/janet-snake-hole 1d ago

It keeps happening!

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u/m1keyc 1d ago

Happening again and again. Almost daily in southern Lebanon right now. Also assassinating journalists who document their crimes

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u/r0ckchalk RN 8h ago

Israel, Russia, and the United States have been committing documented war crimes and nobody is doing anything about it. So this will continue because there’s nobody stopping them.

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u/Treewalker21 1d ago

Close to 100K Palestinians killed since Oct 2023. This number is so fucking depressing. Whole world watches using mental gymnastics to justify pedicide. The amount of control over who can say what and where in regards to this genocide has gone far beyond 1984.

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u/h4qq 1d ago

Genocide. War criminals. And my tax money supports it.

There are many reasons, but this past decade in particular has never made me feel so ashamed to be an American.

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u/viniciusjr78 1d ago

The most satanic strategy to create a fear amongst the medics to stop coming for rescue.

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u/thE-petrichoroN 1d ago

as heinous as it gets

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u/coriander526 1d ago

Anyone supporting israel has no moral compass. Never has.

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u/goodknightffs 1d ago

Lol they literally told the un where the bodies were.. They didn't try to hide anything

But yes the senior officer at the scene lied and claimed they didn't have their sirens on. He was then kicked out of the military (personally i think he should have been sent to prison)

These are the facts of the matter.. Once again Israel does bad things there is no need to lie about them and make things up.. Makes yall look silly I'm just saying..

source from routers

"The United Nations confirmed last week that it had been informed of the location of the bodies but that access to the area was denied by Israel for several days. It said the bodies had been buried alongside their crushed vehicles - clearly marked ambulances, a fire truck and a U.N. car."

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-military-changes-initial-account-gaza-aid-worker-killings-2025-04-06/

Now are you guys going to upvote me comment? That's what i thought lol..

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u/mergelong 22h ago

You know to normal people, burying people and their vehicles in mass graves after massacring them counts as a cover up, but I suspect ghouls like yourself don't count as normal people.

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u/goodknightffs 13h ago

Dude the literal UN confirmed what I'm saying.. Just read the article from routers and stop responding with emotions

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u/goodknightffs 13h ago

Btw if you read the article it will explain everything..

And again I'm not defending Israel in just pointing out that they never hid the bodies.. But sure dv me for pointing it the truth let's see how far that will get us as a society

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u/instasquid Paramedic - Australia 1d ago

You don't have a problem with our overseas comrades being murdered in cold blood?

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u/instasquid Paramedic - Australia 1d ago

I'd say the upvotes on the post and the downvotes on your comment would disagree with you. 

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u/TheResuscitologist 1d ago

OP is not EM and has their profile blocked. Its part of a systemic effort to sway reddit and public opinion against israel. Its intentional and has infiltrated many subs. Why do they same 4 accounts daily post on r/pics something related to israel almost daily and nothing else? Its intentional

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u/drinkwithme07 1d ago

Israel has done plenty to sway public opinion. It's the results of their own actions.

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u/TheResuscitologist 1d ago

Im not going to get into a debate over who or who isnt responsible for what or why. Its a complex geopolitical problem no one has been able to solve for thousands of years. A medical Reddit comment section surely isnt going to do it.

That doesnt change what I said. Theres a concerted effort all across reddit by non related posters to highlight certain aspects and minimize others.

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u/goodknightffs 1d ago edited 1d ago

Lol they literally told the un where the bodies were.. They didn't try to hide anything

But yes the senior officer at the scene lied and claimed they didn't have their sirens on. He was then kicked out of the military (personally i think he should have been sent to prison)

These are the facts of the matter.. Once again Israel does bad things there is no need to lie about them and make things up.. Makes yall look silly I'm just saying..

Edit added source from routers

"The United Nations confirmed last week that it had been informed of the location of the bodies but that access to the area was denied by Israel for several days. It said the bodies had been buried alongside their crushed vehicles - clearly marked ambulances, a fire truck and a U.N. car."

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-military-changes-initial-account-gaza-aid-worker-killings-2025-04-06/

Now are you guys going to upvote me comment? That's what i thought lol..

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u/Goldenmentis 1d ago

UN, international agencies and the Palestinian Red Crescent strongly dispute this, stating they were kept in the dark for eight days until discovering the mass grave themselves.

Bold of you to saying "nothing was hidden", Israeli forces literally used bulldozers to completely crush and bury the clearly marked ambulances, a fire truck, and a UN vehicle under the sand.

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u/goodknightffs 1d ago edited 1d ago

Do you have a source to them disputing this?

Edit: so i ask for a source and i get down voted?

I even posted my source and I'm still getting down voted lol i didn't even support Israel all i said is we should be sticking to the facts instead of making shit up..

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u/goodknightffs 1d ago

Fine I'll post my source here as well

The United Nations confirmed last week that it had been informed of the location of the bodies but that access to the area was denied by Israel for several days. It said the bodies had been buried alongside their crushed vehicles - clearly marked ambulances, a fire truck and a U.N. car.Fair to ask for a source so here you go

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-military-changes-initial-account-gaza-aid-worker-killings-2025-04-06/

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u/Ok-Concentrate636 1d ago

Source: trust me bro

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u/goodknightffs 1d ago

Fair to ask for a source so here you go

The United Nations confirmed last week that it had been informed of the location of the bodies but that access to the area was denied by Israel for several days. It said the bodies had been buried alongside their crushed vehicles - clearly marked ambulances, a fire truck and a U.N. car.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-military-changes-initial-account-gaza-aid-worker-killings-2025-04-06/

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u/Ok-Concentrate636 1d ago edited 1d ago

I verified the source, you weren’t lying. I’m going to assume you still class these atrocities as war crimes:

15 paramedics killed, burying them and claiming the clearly labelled car, were armed militants. Then when footage was released israel switched up and admitted it was paramedics.

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u/goodknightffs 1d ago

First of all i appreciate the candor it's sadly rare these days..

Secondly if you read my original comment again you will surely be able to answer what you're asking me..

All i really care about is the truth.. In the end of the day if someone is doing bad shit we need to call them out for the bad shit they are doing.

We can't make new shit up or take something terrible and make it sound worse. The only thing that does is muddies the water.

I hope you understand my point.. It's important we don't fall into echo chambers whichever side of the political spectrum we fall on (and if it wasn't clear yes i consider this a war crime which is also why i said the senior officer {a reservist} should have been sent to prison and not let out of the army)

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u/Paramedickhead Paramedic 9h ago

I agree. That commander should be tried for war crimes and executed. And anyone up the chain who gave the order.

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u/MeatSlammur BSN 1d ago

Paramedics or Hamas driving ambulances? I dislike Israel and Hamas but Hamas has been caught pretending to be civilians and aid workers many times. The only ones telling of this information….are Hamas literally.

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u/InYosefWeTrust 1d ago

There was another video several days ago where they bombed a spot, then waited for ambulances to arrive, then bombed it again. 

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u/Goldenmentis 1d ago

Yes, that was in Lebanon. The Israeli military carried out multiple double tap airstrikes by first bombing a location, waiting for emergency workers and ambulances to arrive at the scene to rescue survivors, and then launching a second strike on the exact same spot. This tactic directly targeted and killed paramedics, civil defense volunteers, and bystanders who were actively trying to pull victims from the rubble.

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u/goldstar971 1d ago

Which is partly why a feel a sorta way about that other thread of the lebanon resident asking about wilderness medicine.

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u/EaZy_MD ED Attending 1d ago

Mental gymnastics must be exhausting.

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u/MeatSlammur BSN 1d ago

Mental gymnasts for being cautious about believing a video and story released by a terrorist organization? Let’s not pretend Hamas has never lied. Neither side in this battle is trustworthy.

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u/crakemonk 1d ago

Have you ever wondered why Hamas exists in the first place? Maybe learn some actual history and get your head out of your ass. Although, that might be hard when you’ve been so brainwashed that you think what happened in this video is okay, for any reason… or any of the multitude of videos where IDF keeps doing this shit.

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u/MeatSlammur BSN 1d ago

I do know history. Palestinian leaders should have taken the deal at Camp David.

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u/Ohmynamageoff 1d ago

Bro please shut the fuck up. Were the little girls bombed by the US also Hamas insiders wearing school dresses. Were the hospital nurses and Doctors killed also Hamas wearing scrubs? Is the BBC and Amnesty international also Hamas wearing journalist badges?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c80d2zrdj7vo

https://www.amnesty.org.uk/latest/usairan-new-investigation-demands-accountability-for-deadly-us-strike-on-school-that-killed-over-100-children/

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgqkkxd09e2o

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u/emmcity0 1d ago

Jesus fucking christ the psychopathy is out of control

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u/MeatSlammur BSN 1d ago

Because I don’t trust a terrorist organization to tell the truth? Come on you gotta be better than this. Trusting Hamas or Israel is just low IQ behavior

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u/Goldenmentis 1d ago

https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-just-quintupled-its-pr-budget-to-730-million-experts-say-it-wont-work/

The Times of Israel : Israel just quintupled its PR budget to $730 million; experts say it won’t work

Do you also want your $7,000 paycheck?

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u/MeatSlammur BSN 1d ago

$7000 isn’t enough, they’d have to pay me a lot more

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u/the_silent_redditor 1d ago

Oh you gargle their balls for free.

Nice.

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u/m1keyc 1d ago

Israel is objectively the biggest and baddest terrorist organization of them all!

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u/emmcity0 1d ago

Oh my god shut up

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u/MeatSlammur BSN 1d ago

That’s all you have to say? Thanks for participating

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u/coriander526 1d ago

You trust israel to tell the truth? You dumb?

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u/VXMerlinXV RN 1d ago

If they were guerrilla fighters posing as medics, why would anyone cover that up?

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u/MeatSlammur BSN 1d ago

What?

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u/VXMerlinXV RN 1d ago

You said the only people talking about the killings were Hamas. If the medics killed were combatants posing as medical personnel, like you said, why wouldn’t that be front page news?

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u/MeatSlammur BSN 1d ago

It’s been proven many times before they’ve done this… it’s never going to be front page news because Israel being the bad guys makes better headlines. The issue is they’re both the bad guys. The Palestinians are suffering from inside and out. They need their government back

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u/sesgo805 1d ago

Proven? Show us.

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u/Ok_Firefighter1574 5h ago

So why wasn’t it proven this one was? If it’s happened in the past and you are claiming that’s what this is, why hasn’t Israel said anything to that effect?

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u/TheTampoffs RN 1d ago

I can just picture the subset of ER RN bro you are

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u/mergelong 22h ago

I've actually never met an ER RN bro that was anything short of chill. This guy is a real pos

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u/TheTampoffs RN 14h ago

Eh I’ve met plenty alpha bro types

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u/MeatSlammur BSN 1d ago

I can just picture you sitting in the corner chair in every hotel

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u/randomchick4 Paramedic 1d ago

classy 🙄

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u/mzladyperson 1d ago

Guys it's just a dumb troll trying to get a rise out of people, and quite blatantly at that. Don't give it the attention it wants

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u/MeatSlammur BSN 1d ago

Not trolling, you just don’t like what I have to say

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u/MrCarey RN 1d ago

Lol because you say trolly shit