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A whole civilization might die tonight
- elzbardico 6mo agoThe world got so used to Don's deranged bravado, that I doubt that either china or russia have raised their DEFCON status equivalents, as they would probably do, should any other serious american president said the same thing. Fucking clown.
- AnimalMuppet 6mo agoHmm. You just gave me a flashback to Putin's invasion of Ukraine. He was saying all these threatening things, and moving all these troops, but surely he would never do that, right? Wrong, it turned out. Sometimes bluster isn't bluster. Or perhaps sometimes blusterers back themselves into a corner with their mouth.
- iwontberude 6mo agoI take this seriously and it's made me sick. I can't get any work done when my stomach feels like its doing flips.
- pesus 6mo agoYou're not alone. I keep hoping there's some sort of fire to put out at work so I can at least be distracted enough for a bit.
- TimorousBestie 6mo agoI’ve approved like a single PR today. It’s not great.
- jghn 6mo agoIn a lot of ways I feel the discourse that he means a nuclear attack buries the lede. This is not likely to happen. What is more likely to happen is just as bad. Devastating civil infrastructure would put 10s of millions of lives at risk. And even if one were to look at this from a myopic USA centric lens, has anyone considered how many of these people we were told needed liberation are now radicalized against us?
- CommanderData 6mo ago[flagged]
- davidguetta 6mo agoWhat consequence would he suffer if he attack nuclearly vs everything it's done so far ? the marginal cost for him is unfortunately not that high at this point
- elzbardico 6mo ago[flagged]
- hedayet 6mo agoUSA has enough firepower to kill millions of people in short to mid term without needing any nukes.
- jghn 6mo agoTaking down the power grid, water supply, and other types of things doesn't require nukes and would devastate the populace.
- 10xDev 6mo agoIsrael is currently discussing a Hiroshima / Nagasaki model.
- LinuxAmbulance 6mo agoYeah, good luck with that. I'm sure he'll follow up with bailing the ocean.
- zulux 6mo ago[flagged]
- TimorousBestie 6mo ago> Women get acid in the face for dressing wrong, and protesters are killed in the thousands. Gay people are thrown from rooftops or hanged. By your standards, civilization in the United States has been dead for a long time and shows no signs of revival.
- nailer 6mo agoWhere in the US is: > "women get acid in the face for dressing wrong, and protesters are killed in the thousands. Gay people are thrown from rooftops or hanged." happening? I suspect you know that's an outlandish thing to claim.
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- sheikhnbake 6mo agoI hate to break this to you, but before the current regime, the Shah was violently enforcing no burka/niqab dress codes. The Shah that was installed by the West
- twen_ty 6mo agoThis is what happens when there's no effective opposition. Where are the dems? Where's the press?
- sheikhnbake 6mo agoThe fatal flaw in our separation of powers is that even if congressional dems had a super majority, congress is powerless to enforce anything. And the press has been covering Trump's rhetoric and the war pretty heavily.
- lebuffon 6mo agoSo the "checks and balances" we were taught in school was just nonsense?
- sheikhnbake 6mo agoThey weren't nonsense until we had people in positions of power decide that they were. At the end of the day, pieces of paper are just pieces of paper.
- kubb 6mo agoHow could it be that a political system which remained largely structurally unchanged since the freaking 18th century isn't equipped to deal with everything that has been going on in the world since then? It must be due to bad actors.
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- Mr_Eri_Atlov 6mo agoKinda yeah, much like how Americans are taught that they are a bastion of democracy, yet your convoluted electoral system has led to multiple instances of your president losing the popular vote.
- akagusu 6mo ago
- araes 6mo agoThat went quickly from "America the supposed liberator is here" to "America is going to genocide your entire civilization."
- w10-1 6mo agoDestruction for no good reason. Even those who don't care about innocent lives recognize the horrible consequences for everyone else: - Iran empowered to tax the strait of Hormuz indefinitely with high insurance - Russia empowered with access to the middle east since the Iranians will have to embrace their only ally Trump enablers are responsible.
- jacquesm 6mo agoAnother thread that got 'buried': https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47674286 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47674286
- jfrororkforor 6mo agoYet another genocidal threat. Now Iran needs nukes. Congratulation on amazing diplomacy!
- baal80spam 6mo agoWhy is the post miquoted? It says: "A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again." Will. Not might.
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- dragonwriter 6mo agoIt is not quoted, it is summarized. You are quoting the first sentence of the post, but the certainty implied in that sentence is immediately undercut by the next; “I don’t want it to happen but it probably will”, and made even more muddy by the rest, which continues: “However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!”
- baal80spam 6mo agoThanks, I guess that makes sense.
- hedayet 6mo ago[flagged]
- srean 6mo agoIf many people 'vouch' for it, it will get unflagged.
- nkurz 6mo agoUnfortunately that's not the way it works. If it's [flagged] [dead] because of user flagging, some users can vouch for it to revive it. But if it's merely [flagged] (with associated penalties keeping it off the front pages) there is no option for vouching to remove the penalty. This one is currently [flagged] with no option for vouching.
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- srean 6mo agoYou are right.
- sph 6mo agoIf you 'vouch' or 'flag' things the mods don't approve of, it gets disabled on your account. Confirmed in private conversation with dang [1], he restored it after I promised to behave, and now it stopped working again as I didn't properly toe the line. Quite hypocritical to give power to the user with the tacit expectation that you share the same opinions and political bent as the moderation team. --- 1: quote: "I'm afraid we took vouching privileges away from your account because you vouched for too many comments that were unsubstantive and/or flamebait and/or otherwise broke the site guidelines"
- Henchman21 6mo agoThis site is a fucking joke. It doesn't foster discussion, rather it fosters "allowed" discussion. Things that will make the Y-combinator folks more money because that is all they value. Tech is just a means to an end. And these notions of "site guidelines" seem to not apply at all to Elon's folks! So, you know it pretty much like any right-wing-owned news site.
- Animats 6mo agoResponse from Iran: "Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) says it will respond outside the region and deprive the United States and its allies of oil and gas “for many years” if the US crosses “red lines” and attacks civilian facilities."[1] "Iran has closed all diplomatic and indirect channels of communication with the United States, the state-run Tehran Times reported ..." US media does not seem to have picked up on this, but media in India and China have.[2] But the common source seems to be "Tehran Times", and it's unclear who runs that or where they get their info. New York Times, AP, and AlJazeera are not saying that. Xinhua has a one-line note with no source. The US White House says Vance is talking to somebody. Politico says Vance is on "standby".[3] A negotiated cease-fire seems unlikely now. [1] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2026/4/7/iran-war-live-trump-warns-of-devastating-attacks-as-deal-deadline-nears https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2026/4/7/iran-war-li... [2] https://www.the-independent.com/bulletin/news/iran-mediators-cut-off-communications-trump-threat-b2953076.html https://www.the-independent.com/bulletin/news/iran-mediators... [3] https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/06/vance-is-on-standby-in-iran-talks-00860811 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/06/vance-is-on-standby...
- nailer 6mo ago[flagged]
- Gud 6mo agoI guess we’ll find out!
- elzbardico 6mo agoLOL. That's what CNN told you? Or it was Hegseth himself?
- nailer 6mo agoVideos from people inside Iran. They’re murdering a lot of people, but the entire population hates them more than ever.
- ChrisArchitect 6mo ago[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47674286 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47674286
- Mr_Eri_Atlov 6mo agoThe world will be engulfed in nuclear hellfire, and Hacker News mods will be flagging final sign-off posts as too political.
- comrade1234 6mo agoThe markets dropped. He and his cronies are buying up stocks. Tomorrow he'll say Iran is negotiating and offering something amazing. The stocks will go up and they'll sell. Iran will say they have no idea what he's talking about. Wash and repeat.
- pan69 6mo agoAs depressing as it sounds, this seems to pretty much sum up the objective of the 2nd Trump admin.
- spwa4 6mo agoHow is Trump's threat the most extreme in this war? Hell, "a whole civilization might die tonight?". The islamic regime in Iran has explicitly set wiping out Persian civilization as it's goal, more than 50 years ago. And they've worked hard at it. Or how about: Iran's regime threatens to make life in the middle east essentially impossible: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/23/iran-threat-to-destroy-water-facilities-gulf https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/23/iran-threat-to... Iran's regime threatens to kill every Iranian they can "before giving Iran back to Iranians": https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/16/no-sign-of-new-protests-in-iran-as-a-hard-line-cleric-calls-for-executions-and-threatens-trump-00735421 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/16/no-sign-of-new-prot...
- nailer 6mo agoThis is factually correct and shouldn't be downvoted.
- elzbardico 6mo agoThis is stupid dumb boomer propaganda.
- nailer 6mo ago> A man stands at his home near a synagogue, which was damaged in a strike, in Tehran on Tuesday Bizarre wording from this website. 90% of Jews in Iran left after the Islamic fundamentalists took over.
- elzbardico 6mo agoBy their own choice.
- nailer 6mo agoChoosing to avoid danger that someone else is choosing to inflict on you isn't much of a choice.