Just want to get some perspective on what people think of the American reaction. I’m NOT asking if it will happen. I’m asking what do you think Americans will do, if anything if this happens. Do you think people will just not care or protest on the streets?
Edit: What would your reaction would be? (even if not American)
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The 5 world owners and their retainers will continue to eat human children meat before dissolving their corpses in acid and then complaining no one likes their great ideas on their personally owned social media platforms.
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Big pickup truck drivers will continue to ride everyone’s ass while slurping their giant Dunkin coffee and posting instagram videos about the woke while traveling to their job to not make any money to cover the cost of their big truck and ball cap and sunglasses and frustrations about the slutty daughter/son they’re mad they can’t fuck.
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Everyone else will scramble in their own way to go to the place to make the money that doesn’t cover the cost of traveling to the place to make the money while slowly melting into atomic scrap.
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One or two people might be snarky on Bluesky that the T’s orange line is running shuttle service between oak grove and north station as the sky burns.
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One singulary stupid, sad, scared and ultimately brain-dead New American (neé New Mexican) will say to himself “At least I warned my brother about the FEMA SUPER HIGHWAY Obama was planning to (and totally successfully) build to disappear dissidents back in 2010! I Always had his back!”
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The entire habitable world will perish probably within a month.
But ya know… life finds a way
I think we found the real 'murican right here!
Please allow me to add another bullet point:
- The most devout and also the loudest, Evangelical Christians will congregate and start talking about the end times and the rapture and stuff like that. The pastor will continue to fly his private jet to the aforementioned child-eating islands every week.
Holy shit this is gold, great response!
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I read every single reply and LOVED them all. Great job Lemmy, the answers are amazing. Thank you!
Honestly I’d be way more concerned about Iran getting pushed into finally making their nuke so they can lob it back and start WWIII; or Israel seeing it as a green light to just start nuking whoever they please.
Iran isn’t fissile material-less, they could probably form a completely functional bomb with some assistance from NK and China (or next door Pakistan if they suddenly decide to abandon uncle sam). It might require some hefty price, but they could probably trade away oil access rights and have their material covertly sent to NK for final processing into a bomb.
Even if China doesn’t want to get involved, they could just as easily make some quick dirty bombs, attach it to their ballistic missiles, and perma scar a significant portion of the earth with radiation poisoning.
The general American public response is largely irrelevant because it’s already too late to matter. Even if they ripped out the entirety of DC and formed a completely new government, there’s no stopping the consequences of such an action.
I’d book the very first flight out of this shithole before nukes start dropping over here.
lol americans wont do shit as usual ahahaha!
A majority of Americans appear to be mouth breathing knuckle draggers who enjoy watching blood sports and being aggressive toward minorities and foreigners.
So the reaction would probably be generally favorable.
As an American I sadly have to agree.
I wonder how you came to that conclusion
“How would the world react to USA nuking Iran?”
“As an American I would say America would react well to America nuking Iran.”
Happy September 11th everyone!
How do you think Americans will react if USA drops a Nuke on Iran?
They’re okay with dropping the equivalent of dropping over 6 nukes on a concentration camp with over 50% child population, why wouldn’t they be okay with dropping a few on what they’ve been raised to believe is the big bad wolf?
It’s not going to happen. I don’t think you understand how nukes work nor the long term ramifications.
I’m sure myyass can educate me
lol reading that is like my name choices for ocarina of time.
I thought the point of this entire thing was Iran can’t have nukes. Now we drop it on them and give them a live demonstration?
Well, we ARE the bad guys.
The same reaction when the US dropped non-nuclear bombs on Iran, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Lebanon, Palestine, Afghanistan, Serbia, Bosnia… not only from this president. Americans don’t care about anything, they only care about money and how (dropping bombs on other people) will affect their income/taxes, nothing more. Non-Americans will protest (pro-Western people, whatever that means), some will call for a holy war against the devil-loving US, some will say nothing hoping they will be the next to do something similar (you know who), and the rest will simply be silenced.
If it means cheap gas, a few million will have to die.
Schumer will write a strongly worded memo complaining that it was just one nuke and not 50, and that the US must send monetary aid to Israel because they might get some radiation from our nukes. And, some rallies will be held in which ICE beats protesters en masse and kills a few. Same as always.
The world will gasp and rend their garments. The usa will see this as winning a sports game of some sort.
I don’t think Americans will react to anything unless it happens on their own soil for a change.
Ok, what do you think if a nuke went off in D.C.? Idk what most people would do honestly, probably still go into work the next day?
I don’t understand what people think they would otherwise do. Say you lived in Ukraine, Like 2.5% of their population are active duty. The other 97.5% of the population goes to work/school/etc the next day.
If your honest with yourself everyone age 1-17 and 35+ nothing too much would really change. More jobs would pop up manufacturing drones and such. Amount of males between 18-35 would decrease some, and for the most part life would go on. Oh and them wanting to add $1.5 trillion more dollars to the military budget would pass really quickly. If the U.S. put a deployment as large as Vietnam was these days, we wouldn’t even have 1% active duty.
Its show up to work or get fired and jobs are hard to come by. I dont know about the rest of you but I sure do like food.
911 will be a decent reference. Then that fear will be capitalized for state control and power consolidation, privacy invasion, ultimately making the world a worse place. The same playbook
Why would these sociopaths/amoral materialists care? They don’t even care when their own kids get shot up, as a whole, what price are they paying when it’s Iranian kids who get murdered? They don’t call America the Big Satan for no reason, the Anglo settler colony was built on genocide and slavery and these monsters’ descendants are either proud of it or quietly reap the rewards. There are like four good Americans, the rest are at best just useless and easily propagandised cattle.
I think about 30% of the population would be exhilarated and rally around a false sense of righteous power. About 60% would be absolutely aghast and would make a lot of noise for a few weeks. Then they’d gradually settle into the comfort of being indignant without actually changing anything. After a while the American people would continue doing the same thing they’ve done for the last eight decades: inflicting violence on everyone for the enrichment of a few privileged oligarchs.
What about the last 10%? Unaware?
Mostly the same split on the war. What will change some pro war, or war tolerant, people’s opinions is direct consequences. Iran itself may be able to permanently destroy oil production/export capacity in region. Nazi empire colonies will continue their cowardice in pure demonic evil. But supposedly, China and Russia have set red lines including nuclear strikes on Israel, and sinking Navy. GCC colonies would likely break US alliance. These are the countries that help financialize US bubble the most. Their destruction/consequences alone would make them incapable of continuing to support US bubble.
Does $300 oil and a global economic depression cause people to pressure their countries/military establishement to coup Trump and Zionist supremacist supporters? Just because there has be some change in populist demonism for Israel, 50/50 on demonism towards China, the stupididity lock in for demonism against Russia and immigrants/races/personal freedom is divisive enough to be fatal.
It’s fair that global opinion of US would take a hit, as has Israel’s genocide on video over the last 2 years. But colonial rulerships need changing to cause change. The only difference between AfD and CDU is less suicidal demonism towards Russia.
I am shocked oil prices have remained so calm to this point. I don’t think Americans understand how serious this war is. The global depression is closer possibility every week this goes on. It’s Insanity and absolutely stupidity to be risking everything like this.
I used to make parts for the oil and gas industry. In one way, I know how serious this is.
Oil loading terminals and refineres do not work with shrapnel holes in them, they also don’t work when theyve been set on fire. Oil refineries are chock full of bespoke parts, some of which may take multiple years to replace. How much has been destroyed so far?
We are going to have to come to grips with the idea that oil doesn’t make sense anymore as a motor fuel. But that will be a lot smaller issue than the drop in fertilizer output.
They are actually very high, and going up $1-$2/bbl per day. Gasoline, jet fuel and diesel especially at extreme pricing, and housing prices now declining. Just continuing blockade leads to steady decline. Mutual destruction of $Bs of oil tankers accelerates global depression as capacity to ship oil around the world is part of oil dependence. Political movements against renewables no matter how high fuel gets is part of “democracy too dumb to function” incurable demonism.
But oil/fuel going up just a little every day gives a frog boiling effect. $10/day movements during first part of war made for shock effects and big headlines.
Blue States: Horror, protest in streets on the opposite side of the country in places Trump already knows are against him.
Red States: “Fuck yeah! About damn time!” (Proceeds to pay $17/gallon for gas to ‘own the libs’.)
