The most bizarre and surreal event in the last decade of US politics - and it's obviously a hefty competition -- is watching US liberals who see NAZIS and HITLER under every MAGA hat finally encounter real-deal Nazis in Ukraine, and they are eager to arm, fund and revere them.

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[–]rundown9 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Do you really want to gamble nobody figured out a way to neutralize nukes?

Do you?

It only takes a few, a few capitol cities to be annihilated, and world society would collapse.

Nuclear winter would collapse crops, food riots would happen everywhere.

Fucking "lasers"? Think tank morons have no business being near power, that the human race has allowed these idiots to be in charge perhaps mean we're not even meant to survive as a species.

[–]binaryblob 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Do you?

I don't know. Either I am the smartest man on the planet, because I did figure out how to beat nukes or the US already figured out the same 50 years ago. Do you think I am the smartest man on the planet? I don't think you do.

Fucking "lasers"?

I am not saying there are lasers, but there could be all kinds of mechanisms. Again, they had 90 years to figure out a solution to what is literally the most valuable problem worth solving. Do you really think nobody ever gave the order to figure out a solution? If so, it would be the most irresponsible policy ever and frankly, if the world is that stupid, perhaps extinction wouldn't be such a bad idea.

[–]rundown9 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Russia has thousands of nuclear weapons, but let's just say 500 are actually ready to fire.

Let's also say 250 of those fail to launch for whatever reason, fair enough.

Let's say western anti-missle tech can stop 50% of those, wishful thinking even for the Rand corp.

Even if 50% of those miss completely into the ocean, 30, maybe 40 actually hit targets - what would the world look like the next day? week? month? It's a fools bet either way - unless of course they want to die, maybe they do.

[–]binaryblob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Your analysis is based on what other people have said; mine is based on original ideas. Nuclear weapons are obsolete if you know what I know. In fact, there are multiple ways in which nuclear weapons could be rendered inert, now that I think about it. I just figured out another method, which exploits a weakness in all such weapons. It would allow let's say an alien invasion force to destroy all weapons in milliseconds globally. Nobody would ever know what hit them.

I think war is an activity for underdeveloped species. The science fiction depiction of war with "star ships" as such will never happen, well assuming they are able to think of what I did.

[–]captainramen 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Your problem is that just because you have an idea, that idea can somehow be made manifest.

Well I have bad news for you. Great idea but there's one problem: our society doesn't force kids to do enough math to produce the engineers necessary to produce this tech. They are learning about all the genders tho.

We also don't have the manufacturing base for it.

Our elites are retards.

And even if it we did somehow have this technology, pretty much everyone that can launch rockets into space have an ASAT capability.

[–]binaryblob 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

We also don't have the manufacturing base for it.

The West can produce everything they want, but it's entirely possible they don't know they want it.

Our elites are retards.

This is paradoxal. I suppose by "elites" you mean the people that would have been considered the elites a few hundred years ago like heads of state, etc. The elites we have today are indeed idiots. The new elites are the ones you never hear about walking around on some Big Tech campus. They might not have the most money, but one can wonder who actually has "power" in this world, if not for those in the semi-conductor industry.

Elites in ancient times were well educated. These days they are inches away from showing up in a track suit. The amount of respect for authorities is dwindling in every country, because if all you are is a leader by force and not because you have something to offer, you soon won't be a leader anymore.

Technology companies will become the new master, if they aren't already.

[–]captainramen 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The West can produce everything they want, but it's entirely possible they don't know they want it

As you can see, the brain rot hasn't just affected our elites