KomodoWagon posted:

Dad drunk. So what

Mahuum Aqoha posted:

Here's some stdh.txt:

Dave Concepcion posted:

but would there really be a single negative to nuking saudi arabia?

Red Suit posted:

I'm sure we'd lose some oil. Innocent people would probably also die maybe.

Mahuum Aqoha posted:

Here's some stdh.txt:

Drunk Driver Dad posted:

sid, what the gently caress is your avatar doing to itself. your grounded, son

Pvt.Scott posted:

That old man rant is not not necessarily wrong, it's just that we tend to frown on that level of death and destruction in the age of cellphone cameras, GoPros and Twitter. Imagine a Japanese peasant Instagramming their baby's skin sloughing off from radiation sickness or a citizen of London filming a V2 slam into a primary school. We don't actually have the stomach for it.

Mahuum Aqoha posted:

Here's some stdh.txt:

Pvt.Scott posted:

That old man rant is not not necessarily wrong

Pvt.Scott posted:

We don't actually have the stomach for it.

ghost emoji posted:

exethan posted:

c00l

shared by: a scientifically illiterate moron

ghost emoji posted:

exethan posted:

c00l

shared by: a fedorasexual

TontoCorazon posted:

I love science

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tactlessbastard posted:

You're supposed to loving love science.

TontoCorazon posted:

I loving love science

TontoCorazon posted:

I loving love science

Panfilo posted:

What the gently caress do they consider small talk?

I think a goon nailed it when they suggested, "anything the person isn't interested in".

It's so weird that [autists?] rant about small talk online. I mean god forbid a person pick a benign topic to make conversation.

Blue Train posted:

we provided those reforms because we bombed them super hard

the implication is we nuke and occupy the middle east

Moridin920 posted:

written by some pasty nerd who's never even been in a fist fight


lol

Japan is okay today because the massive reforms and economic stimulus we provided during the post-war Occupation, not because we bombed them super hard.


and that's some lol too

Pvt.Scott posted:

I've actually been in plenty of fights, none which I picked. They were dumb and pointless like most violence.

Yes, Japan is doing fine because we rebuilt it. We rebuilt it because we leveled the place with carpet bombing and then dropped a couple nukes to rub it in (plus intimidating others) and we wanted military bases flanking the commie hordes that we just finished arming ourselves. Having a healthy industrial base in your forward military staging area makes sense. I hope part of the rebuilding was because we felt bad about the whole thing.

The old man rant about murdering everyone isn't wrong because that tactic has demonstrably worked throughout human history when it has been employed. Genocide and total warfare work. America doesn't have anywhere near the raw numbers of ground troops needed to do a clean sweep of such a large and varied geographical region as "the Middle East" so we'd probably have to draft tons of people people to go fill ditches with "suspected terrorists."

World War I made civilian populations a valid military target and completely changed the psyche of an entire continent. World War II made good on that and went whole hog on bombing anything that looked vaguely like a factory regardless of location.

North and South America were cleared of most natives and relatively pacified in a few hundred years with primitive tech, terrible logistics, awful communication and coordination and the violence taking place far away from the front. The ancient Babylonians killed entire tribes of enemies to keep them from coming back later.

That poo poo is bad PR these days, and a bad economic move with globalization, as well as being morally reprehensible. That's why it's an old man rant and lol worthy.