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Trump: 'a whole civilisation will die tonight'

15 points by xvxvx 6mo ago

xvxvx 6mo ago
It’s only a war crime if there’s a bigger dog to enforce it.
- lopsotronic 6mo ago
  There's only a single civilization-scale weapon effect in the inventory, and its usage reflects something more impactful than a mere "war crime". Once the First Use Taboo is broached, nuclear explosives will be used for everything. Wherever you have a spare 100kg of payload and a hardened or area target - nuclear explosives, from a weapon effect perspective, are simply too good not to use, once the cat's out of the bag. It'll be like machine guns in the early days of WW1 - where they broke the taboo of using them on _civilized peoples_ - but in this metaphor each bullet being the most powerful device made by Man. Breaking First Use - particularly against a non-existential[1] threats - might rank among the worst single decisions in human history. [1] or non-existent
  - saidnooneever 6mo ago
    thankfully they will use LLM for targeting and it will all be over in a flash pfew
- jacquesm 6mo ago
  That's not how that works. War crimes are war crimes, just like crimes are crimes whether the laws that define them are enforced or not is not relevant. Morality starts with definition, and there are other ways to deal with these things than courts. For instance, boycotts.
  - saidnooneever 6mo ago
    morality has nothing to do with crime or not. crime is always only ablout Law.
jones1618 6mo ago
Does he WANT worldwide eternal Jihad against the US/West? If there's a better use for "Some people just want to watch the world burn" in the history of the world, I can't think of one. He's always been a toddler brain clueless to consequences and, in this case, he likes the idea that HE would get to be the Big Boy to push the Big Red Button. Fun toy.
- phishin 6mo ago
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canxerian 6mo ago
I condemn this behaviour.
ChrisArchitect 6mo ago
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47674286 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47674286
tim-tday 6mo ago
What the actual fuck. That would be a war crime. A) don’t, and if you do, be ready to be immediately prosecuted. People bandy this whole impeachment thing about but there’s nothing like a real crime against humanity to really pull out all the stops.

15 points by xvxvx 6mo ago

xvxvx 6mo ago

It’s only a war crime if there’s a bigger dog to enforce it.

lopsotronic 6mo ago
There's only a single civilization-scale weapon effect in the inventory, and its usage reflects something more impactful than a mere "war crime". Once the First Use Taboo is broached, nuclear explosives will be used for everything. Wherever you have a spare 100kg of payload and a hardened or area target - nuclear explosives, from a weapon effect perspective, are simply too good not to use, once the cat's out of the bag. It'll be like machine guns in the early days of WW1 - where they broke the taboo of using them on _civilized peoples_ - but in this metaphor each bullet being the most powerful device made by Man. Breaking First Use - particularly against a non-existential[1] threats - might rank among the worst single decisions in human history. [1] or non-existent
- saidnooneever 6mo ago
  thankfully they will use LLM for targeting and it will all be over in a flash pfew
jacquesm 6mo ago
That's not how that works. War crimes are war crimes, just like crimes are crimes whether the laws that define them are enforced or not is not relevant. Morality starts with definition, and there are other ways to deal with these things than courts. For instance, boycotts.
- saidnooneever 6mo ago
  morality has nothing to do with crime or not. crime is always only ablout Law.

jones1618 6mo ago

Does he WANT worldwide eternal Jihad against the US/West? If there's a better use for "Some people just want to watch the world burn" in the history of the world, I can't think of one. He's always been a toddler brain clueless to consequences and, in this case, he likes the idea that HE would get to be the Big Boy to push the Big Red Button. Fun toy.

phishin 6mo ago
[dead]

canxerian 6mo ago

I condemn this behaviour.

ChrisArchitect 6mo ago

[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47674286 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47674286

tim-tday 6mo ago

What the actual fuck. That would be a war crime. A) don’t, and if you do, be ready to be immediately prosecuted. People bandy this whole impeachment thing about but there’s nothing like a real crime against humanity to really pull out all the stops.