Haven’t we all just been living under constant nuclear threat since we were basically born? It’s kind of hard to be anxious about it since it’s basically the background radiation we’ve been told not to prioritize or think too much about since we were kids but I would wager each one of us has a nebulous and ill defined “in case of bomb” plan.
Im pretty sure we still ARE under nuclear threat now that Russia decided to go invading again and that the US has a fascist dictatorship rolling up.
Dictionary knows only the meaning of isolated words. They have no ground to stand on.
They could have asked why there are nuclear threats. At some point OP would have to admit that the sky is not woke enough and that more non-binary fuss is needed.
Spends youth doing duck and cover drills from fear of Russian nuke launches. Now, licks the boots of…checks notes…Russia.
We were not ready for the internet and 24 hour news.
Nanomachines, son!
Who needs ChatGPT to make slop when we’ve got right wing clowns?
ChatGOP is coming to take your job, senator
Now just put them into prison, so you can have them as
slaves“workers”, make them sit 12h in front of the computer and generate garbage for fr-… Shit, this reminds me of something.first part is /s
You [adjective] [plural noun] who never lived one day under [adjective] threat can now [verb] upon your [adjective] [noun].
You made quite the [adjective] fuss to save the world from [adjective] [adjective] [noun].
There, now we can all play Mad Libs!
Mad-Cons
I hate how well this works
New CAH pack just dropped
Also who the hell is he referring to? Pakistan has had nukes since like ‘98
I’m a leftist GenX whose served aboard 3 nuclear submarines, over a 20 year career. Ive slept between ballistic nuclear missiles, on top of torpedoes, mines, and tomahawk missiles early in my career, but later, switched to a standard bed (rack) on the boats…can I reflect and make a fuss?
No. You can be thanked for your service but you cannot protest when your benefits are reduced.
Darth Vader, “I’m altering the deal. Pray that I don’t alter it any further.”
You nailed it
as long as it’s non-binary
I’m sorry, did I miss a mass disarmament event? It may not be as novel as it used to be, but the dull threat of nuclear war has been a constant backdrop in our lives.
like a lot of us of a certain age lived through fucken CHERNOBYL.
Weird how those who try to use the word “woke” as a pejorative usually reveal themselves to be infected with the broke mind virus.
The duality of republicans. Be scared of Russia nuking us over Ukraine to lick their boot, but also belittle gen z for not living through the cold war, while also starting a cold war with China.
what war with China? last I checked they never threatened China. on the other hand China is always boasting about invading Taiwan and Hong Kong
Welcome back from the coma. The current year is 2025. You will have to look up the word “tariff” because it’s no longer some stupid old timey tax.
what do tariffs have to do with the cold war? the marking experience of the cold war was proxy war with actual troops. there is nobody invading China or sponsoring rebels
Ah, I forgot you were in a coma. I also need you to read about 10 years of history about military escalation in the South China Sea. Also the Himalayas.
Can we get him on technicalities? 'Cos millenials start in '81 and there was very much nuclear threatening
Nuclear threats never went away. There’s a proxy war between nuclear powers happening right now. India and Pakistan just had a spat. Seems like some American elites want to fight China.
Sometimes I wonder if nuclear winter will cancel out climate change.
Yeah but in 1984 we really worried that we might not make it through the week.
Weird Al released Christmas at ground zero in '86
Now we don’t really believe Russia’s missiles will even work
And back then there was no credible defence
there’s no practical defence against nukes
Yes there is, you just blow it up while it’s in space
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you would need something silly like 50x more interceptors than ICBMs and SLBMs and these are more expensive and technically harder than either
As someone with experience in this field, I can tell you with utmost certainty that the missiles the West fired at ICBMs are certainly not more expensive or technically harder than either of the aforementioned missiles. ICBMs in particular are almost a non threat to the world
Wikipedia disagrees, though notes that there are weapons that can beat current defence technology
The Soviet Union could produce enough missiles to overwhelm any defence. Russia now couldn’t afford to maintain a large arsenal, though China can. China doesn’t seem as likely to launch a first strike as the USSR did.
Of course those systems aren’t protecting you unless you live somewhere important
What? You can’t say wikipedia disagrees when it lists weapons that can beat current defenses.
The NMD program is limited in scope and designed to counter a relatively small ICBM attack from a less sophisticated adversary.
also ground-based interceptor is more expensive than ICBM, and you need one for each warhead and maybe also for decoys, and probably more than one to be reasonably sure. since everyone operates under MAD it doesn’t matter if you destroy most probable adversary’s nukes on the ground or in the air, so that’s one of reasons why ICBMs are a thing, and then SLBMs as a second line. cue arms race. ABM are considered destabilizing and are limited by treaties
ground zero in '86
Crazy how many times the World Trade Center musta been attacked by Weird Al. I only heard about ’93 and, of course, ’911.
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those missiles will work. They have been modernizing.
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There still is no credible defense to a full on attack by Russia. Trump’s golden dome is as real as Reagan’s star wars.
Actually modernizing? Or modernizing in the way that the T-14 and SU-57 technically exist?
They’re using this little one in Ukraine, but that aside, would you like to call their bluff if you think their missles don’t work? I’d rather this shitshow continue than play real life fallout.
Nah I’m sure at least a few work, but the world has been stepping over putin’s “red lines” for years now and he hasn’t done much except bluster.
That’s true, I think they’re a weapon of last resort, only to be used if Russia may cease to be. Who knows, maybe nobody would have the gall to use them in that situation. Probably not worth testing.
Remember that the united states and russia were routinely inspecting the nuclear arsenals of each other. They may have been hiding how bad things were, but we can be certain they do have functioning nuclear weapons at a scale large enough to matter.
The US believed Kiev would fall in weeks, tops. I’m not putting much faith in their assessment of Russia’s arsenal. If anything, it’s in the best interest of the US MIC to lie about it and spend to fill imaginary capabilities gaps as we so often have.
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I’m just waiting for them to start calling oxygen and water woke so they either stop breathing or shrivel up like a sun dried dog turd.
I am a little surprised they haven’t given up water since the “chemicals in the water are turning the frogs gay” conspiracy took off.
Did they declare that the chemical doing that was fluoride? Because more and more states are banning that in the water.
“Fluoride is an industrial waste associated with arthritis, bone fractures, bone cancer, IQ loss, neurodevelopmental disorders, and thyroid disease,” Kennedy wrote in a social media post.
“What does this do to sexual development in children?” Kennedy said. “Nobody knows. We know what it does to frogs.”
Kennedy’s gay-frogs riff was borrowed from an old rant by conspiracy theory maestro and Infowars creator Alex Jones.
There’s a few low quality studies suggesting high concentrations of fluoride can cause some issues with the thyroid. I didn’t look for the rest of the claimed problems, because high concentrations aren’t something you’ll be exposed to in tap water.
I don’t think RFK has the critical thinking skills to interpret a study that finds a correlation between fluoride and whatever issue, especially if he’s quoting a conspiracy theorist to back his agenda
The strangest part of the “turning the frogs gay” meme is it’s actually a thing he just said it in the stupidest way possible.
Frogs are extremely sensitive to their environments, and seeing any disturbing trends in a frog population is an indication of pollution. He could have brought attention to the havoc modern agriculture has waged on the world, instead he aimed at the right wing and riled them up with misinformation. Even your link doesn’t mention anything about homosexuality, it says the frogs that turned female are able to reproduce although their offspring are always male because of genetics.
There’s chemicals in the water!!!
“You gonna regulate companies properly so we don’t have actually harmful chemicals in our water?”
We’re gonna ban the most effective public health measures in history while taking an axe to every regulatory agency!!!
So sad how easy it is to turn potentially useful anger into the opposite of a solution. America is going to hell and we’ll thoroughly explore its depths before people finally care enough to escape.
The only thing to do at this point is help each other stay alive as the lords and kings wreck havoc in this sinking liberal empire. Maybe once the nation’s foundation is rotted enough we’ll be able to build life anew.
millennials haven’t lived a single day without nuclear threats, the fuck is he moping on about?
