US Erection 12 *AND* 16 *AND* 20 *AND* 22 *AND* 24 *AND* Beyond

[Cornuck]

Lost in the conversation about Japan and the nukes, is that before they were dropped, in March the US firebombed Tokyo and killed 80,000 to 100,000 people.

[Tciso]

Wow, you guys actually think bombing the fuck out of Iran is going to make the IRGC lose control. Just up Trump's 10,000 targets to 20,000. No! 30,000! Insane!

Who is the "you guys"?

So far just Tciso has said that. I just wanted to hear what you thought should happen, not just criticism of what did happen.

BTW, i wear a poppy, so I am not a "you guys", according to the Don. Yup, I'm mixing up topics

[Tciso]

If Iran actually obtained nuclear weapons, there is not a threat in the universe that someone could make that would keep them from using it. The only responses at that point would be conciliatory.

Conciliation is a process where two or more parties in a dispute use a neutral third party (the conciliator) to help them communicate, lower tensions, and reach a voluntary, mutually acceptable agreement.

Iran pretends to be conciliatory when it is weak. Give it a nuke, and thet would demand surrender.

Hey, I'm no pink commie, but Joni Mitchell told us the solution in 1970. Pave all of Paradise, and put up a parking lot.

BTW, taking all of our guns away as you import Islam is an insane idea.

[Meds]

Of your examples listed, Rik, which of those are a theocracy that actually funds attacks on civilian populations?

I’m not talking about civilian casualties in an officially declared war. I’m talking about a strategy that specifically targets civilians.

We can start with the Americans bombing and killing school kids in Iran and work our way backwards...

I've been to Auschwitz and as hard as that was to understand, I found the Hiroshima Peace Memorial harder to visit because of the way they displayed the typical day that the Japanese families woke up to and walked us thru the moments leading up to and after the bomb was dropped...

Hard to think that some so casually throw around thoughts of nuking a country...

That was a Trudeau-esque response if ever there was one.
Thanks for not answering the question.

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Circus intensifies.

[Cornuck]

He's already turned it down. But there's another Dana White, Navy Communication Pro....

[Megaterio Llamas]

He's already turned it down. But there's another Dana White, Navy Communication Pro....

Listening to today's soundbites, Trump seems to think it's the UFC Dana While. This is hilarious if true.

[Megaterio Llamas]

https://x.com/DrClownPhD/status/2119189654167572960

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[Tciso]

Lost in the conversation about Japan and the nukes, is that before they were dropped, in March the US firebombed Tokyo and killed 80,000 to 100,000 people.

It's not lost on me. In fact, it was part of the rationale for using nukes. The firebombing didn't move the needle on the Japanese fanaticism. Casualty estimates were into the millions of Japanese and hundreds of thousands of Americans if they invaded the mainland. The Nukes gave the Emperor a reason to end the war that casualties alone didn't.

And, it allowed the Japanese people to reset their national identity from fanatic imperialists to peacful capitalism.

[Tciso]

If there's a reward scale and the Iranian theocracy is trying to maximise their virgin count using WMDs, then yeah, we need to fuck those people up.

If they're just regular martyr-obsessed freakos then I don't believe they are actually motivated to die for Allah.

It is options 1, if we bother to listen to what those people say. But, even though they repeat it, our leaders ignore their words.