...how would the world react?
1) denial that any strike happened, that pics of mushroom clouds were clearly photoshopped/from a movie
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 19:53 (two months ago) link
2) rationale for why it was actually the impacted country's fault follow
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 19:54 (two months ago) link
Why not both?
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 19:54 (two months ago) link
(That’s not what I would want; it’s what I’d immediately expect to happen.)
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 19:55 (two months ago) link
3) everybody starts proclaiming it's judgment day and starts posting comically edited or non-existent Bible verses that point to a warhead as evidence that the end times are here
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 19:56 (two months ago) link
4) Waffle House will not close in the city that's bombed
Thanks Obama!
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 13 March 2024 19:59 (two months ago) link
3a.) “this is fine” memes with the smiling cartoon dog superimposed into photos of an actual apocalypse
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 20:01 (two months ago) link
i'd shrug and say "well, that sucks, wonder what happens next". not in the sense of actually wanting to know, but more idle curiosity.
― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 22:28 (two months ago) link
the world would react with terror and nausea.
i say this because any major superpower under nuclear attack is equipped to retaliate with a massive nuclear response and the consequences of such a response would be globally devastating. the likelihood that any superpower would choose to restrain itself from, at a minimum, delivering a tit-for-tat exchange in the hope of avoiding a full scale nuclear war seem remote. look at how the USA reacted to 9/11 and multiply by 10.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 22:42 (two months ago) link
broad confusion and disagreement about who did it
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 22:49 (two months ago) link
missiles can't be hidden from satellites. the only minimally traceable way to deliver a strike would be via submarine launched missiles or a "suitcase nuke". Only another superpower would have either capacity. Superpowers are in short supply. Even if retaliation isn't swift, public pressure to identify the enemy would be so overwhelming that a source would be found, even if the evidence is sketchy.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 22:58 (two months ago) link
Yaaahhooooooo!
https://www.metaflix.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Slim-Pickens-Riding-Bomb-in-Dr.-Strangelove-Movie.jpg
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 13 March 2024 23:05 (two months ago) link
Also someone would show up on Twitter saying
"Yo this is a tragedy and I don't wanna belittle that but I ordered a splatter vinyl from Dickhead records who are based there and just curious if this will impact the order"
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 23:43 (two months ago) link