Economic Impacts of Iran War
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Irrelevant. You used where you came from thinking it afforded you more credibility on the subject (it doesn't). So all I am doing is asking for your perspective on your own doings. Who do you support?
#1922
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You mean the child abusing lady who let her partner burn her son with cigarettes that tried to run over an ICE Agent? Or the dolt who decided to bring a gun to a Law Enforcement Operation? Funny, you say "especially the male case" yet there is video of him just a few days earlier assaulting ICE Officers and vehicles. He had a gun the whole time, he was looking to kill one of them.
And you say that makes it a wash compared to a Government who killed 30,000 (or 50,000 because for some reason that difference makes a big difference with you) of their own citizens over the period of a couple days? I wonder how much influence of Pakistan's ISI is having on this conflict. How many more civilians from India are you going to slaughter? Why did you protect Bin Landen?
And you say that makes it a wash compared to a Government who killed 30,000 (or 50,000 because for some reason that difference makes a big difference with you) of their own citizens over the period of a couple days? I wonder how much influence of Pakistan's ISI is having on this conflict. How many more civilians from India are you going to slaughter? Why did you protect Bin Landen?
At the same time you are saying we need to think of the civil liberties of the poor oppressed Iranians.
This is America. The 2nd Amendment shall not be infringed even though you pro-big government loonies try to ignore the constitution.
Maybe we need to put America first instead of playing world police and nation building elsewhere.
But I forgot, you love Israel more than your own country
#1923
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Crazy how some people hate the civil liberties enshrined in our constitution when they are exercised by those with whom they disagree.
At the same time you are saying we need to think of the civil liberties of the poor oppressed Iranians.
This is America. The 2nd Amendment shall not be infringed even though you pro-big government loonies try to ignore the constitution.
Maybe we need to put America first instead of playing world police and nation building elsewhere.
But I forgot, you love Israel more than your own country
At the same time you are saying we need to think of the civil liberties of the poor oppressed Iranians.
This is America. The 2nd Amendment shall not be infringed even though you pro-big government loonies try to ignore the constitution.
Maybe we need to put America first instead of playing world police and nation building elsewhere.
But I forgot, you love Israel more than your own country
#1924
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Easier just to do a conventional detonation in place. Let the 60% uranium flow together and reach at or near critical mass. A Chernobyl-like event 500 feet underground would leave even the unreacted enriched Uranium unrecoverable for - one hell of a long time. There have been mishaps like this on a smaller scale in Plutonium manufacture, where through accident or stupidity plutonium nitrate solutions have been allowed to form a critical shape. The cleanup is long, expensive, and the mixed reaction products cheaper to just bury for a few millennia and start over rather than even attempt a hazardous separation process. We don’t actually need their enriched Uranium if we can just see that they don’t get it for a few thousand years.
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I support no more new wars, no more U.S. wars in the ME, a less spent on military and defense, and more invested in our own people inside the 50 states. That’s what I support. And I certainly don’t support any government that exerts so much pressure on US politicians.
#1926
I honestly don’t want to hear about civilians being shot after seeing how this country handled 2 US citizens being shot and killed - especially the male case. Half the country wrote it off as “they deserved it.”
But I’ll entertain it. 40-50000 now? It was 30k before. Who keeps increasing it? And since when did the right wing in flyover states ever care about the civilians inside of Iran? Can we have an honest conversation?
No one cheers their own country getting bombed. While some may be happy the ayatollah is dead, their hatred of his regime is less than their hatred of getting bombed by the U.S. and Israel. They are still Iranians, first.
The U.S. has through history of the past several decades, armed terrorist groups when we thought it would serve us best. And we have abandoned tons of equipment in places like Iraq and Afghanistan, that ended up in terrorist hands. We basically just left Afghanistan with lots of “free gifts” for the Taliban. Ironically, supplied them
with weapons to take out Russian helicopters in the 80s. They were useful terrorists then.
But I’ll entertain it. 40-50000 now? It was 30k before. Who keeps increasing it? And since when did the right wing in flyover states ever care about the civilians inside of Iran? Can we have an honest conversation?
No one cheers their own country getting bombed. While some may be happy the ayatollah is dead, their hatred of his regime is less than their hatred of getting bombed by the U.S. and Israel. They are still Iranians, first.
The U.S. has through history of the past several decades, armed terrorist groups when we thought it would serve us best. And we have abandoned tons of equipment in places like Iraq and Afghanistan, that ended up in terrorist hands. We basically just left Afghanistan with lots of “free gifts” for the Taliban. Ironically, supplied them
with weapons to take out Russian helicopters in the 80s. They were useful terrorists then.
NEITHER US citizen 'deserved' what happened. Both were very sad, especially 'the male one'. Extremely unfortunate, bad, horrible. But, you also cannot deny, with any intellectual honesty, that both US incidents involved people illegally inserting themselves into an active and legitimate law enforcement action, nor that both hold a huge dose of responsibility for what happened to themselves. It's not like either one was any kind of innocent bystander, minding their own business.
Yes, many, many videos show Iranians cheering at the IRGC being bombed. Please, please get out of whatever echo chamber you are in. Just google "videos of iranians cheering bombing", and everything that pops up is an example. From BBC, to Youtube, to ABC, to individual IG/FB/X accounts. It's all there for you to see for yourself.
And again, to compare decades of intentional, systematic, state-sponsored terrorism with US military equipment falling into the wrong hands (at the hands of the last administration, obtw), or even some ill-advised small-scale intelligence actions, shows some galactic-level bias.
This is a waste of time.
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#1928
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Irony would be saying that one party deserved it and another didn't when they were effectively doing the same thing. Except no one said that. If you got shot at the capitol, you deserved it.
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