• newnton@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    Tell me you didn’t read the article and don’t have any idea what you’re talking about without telling me you didn’t read the article and don’t have any idea what you’re talking about

    • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.org
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      3 months ago

      I did read the article.

      IMO any politician advocating for anything less than permanent global nuclear disarmament needs to have spitballs lobbed at them perpetually without debate.

      While the Biden administration is not putting a date on when it will happen, they are not ruling out that they are willing (and more importantly able) to nuke the planet if something offends them.

      I acknowledge that this is not some bombshell piece of news because it is “normal”, i.e. the US military plans for various invasions and scenarios that they supposedly don’t intend to act on. But this kind of anti-social behavior is not only allowed, but publicly funded as if it’s supposed to benefit everyone. I’m calling it out precisely because it is normal.

      My point is the fact that if you believe in nuclear nonproliferation, voting for either candidate won’t move the needle on the issue.

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        3 months ago

        Ok so if intelligence reports claim there’s a risk of a coordinated attack from foreign countries that have nuclear weapons, what do you think the US should do to defend itself?

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          3 months ago

          Ok so if intelligence reports claim there’s a risk of a coordinated attack

          The US is the only nuclear armed country with a history of actually using it. I’m a LOT more scared of the US doing the coordinated attack on someone than I am of the thought of any of the other nuclear armed countries striking first.

          Also implying I trust literally anything the US intelligence machine ever says ever.

          what do you think the US should do to defend itself?

          Boring answer: Not fucking use nuclear weapons, that’s for sure. Diplomacy should be enough.

          Honest answer: I literally don’t care about the US government’s “right” to “defend” itself literally at all. As far as the innocent people who actually live here, we will respond in the only way that our government has planned for us in any disaster scenario: get sacrificed to maintain continuity of government and capitalist power.