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jojobastoday at 6:21 AM3 repliesview on HN

I think this refers to "bombing for peace". Sure the West should have just let Iran nuke whoever it wanted.


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vkoutoday at 6:42 AM

Nuclear weapons are a MAD red line that will result in total annihilation of the attacker. They are only useful in a defensive capacity.

This kind of aggression, however, does seem to make their value as a deterrent clear.

Observe how nobody is fucking with North Korea like they did with Iraq or Venezuela.

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bitwizetoday at 7:45 AM

Nothing geopolitical about it in the sense I intended, except as a reference to the Vietnam-era catchphrase. It's simply a case of "putting spyware on everybody's corporate PC for security is like fucking for virginity".

RobotToastertoday at 6:48 AM

Iran wasn't going to nuke anyone.

They want Islam to dominate the world, that can't happen if there isn't a world left to dominate.