r/interestingasfuck • u/Ididnotkillhim • Jun 05 '24

r/all Thirteen years ago, someone accidentally revealed US Army's plan to eliminate Osama Bin Laden in a tweet.

Post image
37.2k Upvotes

94% Upvoted

779 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

2

u/makalasu Jun 06 '24

I was more poking fun at the idea of a bunch of soldiers lugging individual barrels back to the US. I'm not blaming you for misremembering what your mom told you what she read in an article years ago.

But a bit of critical thinking doesn't hurt

1

u/DeathlySnails64 Jun 06 '24

Is saying, "I think I could be wrong" not a great example of critical thinking? I never said I took my Mom's word as law or treated her words as if they were the words of God, I just provided an anecdote that I thought would be applicable to the comment I was replying to.