#nuclear war speaks

[letsplaythermalnuclearwar]

I love Suffering animatics/art where Odysseus has a chain or rope around his ankle, connecting him to the mast. not only is it a great reference to the source material, but it implies that someone on the ship was worried that the mere sight of Penelope might convince Odysseus to jump in the water, even though he knows its a siren who will kill him

and that they were so persuasive in this argument that Odysseus actually agreed to it

[qqueenofhades]

Two genuine questions: was it REALLY necessary to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and were those two cities European ones (read: full of white people) do you think we still would've made the decision to bomb them?

People have been arguing from the moment it happened whether it was necessary, justifiable, or in any way required, when the war was almost over and Japan was going to lose anyway. My personal view is that it is and remains a completely indefensible action, especially since a) Hiroshima and Nagasaki were relatively unimportant civilian cities with only some military infrastructure, b) Japan was already under heavy conventional bombing that had devastated the mainland, and c) there was no way, ever, that the west was going to drop a nuclear bomb on mainland Europe. So yes, Japan's geographical distance and non-whiteness played pivotal roles in this, especially after American propaganda stereotyped Japanese people as wild yellow savages and, let us not forget, put Japanese-American citizens in concentration camps for the duration of the war. You can read the Wikipedia page about the post-1945 debate here.

[stunt-lads]

Im three minutes into fallout and already crying oop

[alvadee]

funny how us americans always shame everyone who's online for not caring (as in posting about, no matter if the caring is genuine or performative) about the political event that is important to them right now but will gladly discuss movies, ships, their new haul, all that irrelevant day to day bullshit, without a care in the world when something goes down in the world the US isn't (yet) involved in.

[theskyexists]

It's funny how... They desperately try to update a story and almost succeed and make it make sense and the women get interesting roles and the gender essentialism is made 'unfortunate' or changed but then the story has to return to the original vision and Chani the Warrior, Chani the Clear-Sighted cannot tell Paul: you piece of shit. If you want to be emperor, alright, but let my people go. Leave this place. Give me the nuclear codes.

The original books said: this was inevitable. But it wasn't. And the films definitely make this clear. But they have to say the same thing or it truly isn't the same story anymore: this was inevitable.

Though it wasn't.

[giantisms]

is there anyone in the g/t community who likes fallout. can anybody hear me

[sanityshorror]

The US is on DEFCON 2 (though the gov publicly claims to be at DEFCON 3, is been leaked numerous times that the actual DEFCON is DEFCON 2)... Do you understands what that means? DEFCON 1 means nuclear missiles have been launched. DEFCON 2 means there is a very high risk of nuclear missiles being launched at any moment.

If you support anything other than IMMEDIATE and TOTAL global cease fires, you are supporting nuclear annihilation. If you do not believe we are in WW3 and believe talk of nuclear war is only something "crazy" preppers are speaking about... you are in deep denial. If you think you will not die due to a nuclear war, you're a freaking moron.

Supporting any war, any war, is supporting the end of humanity and permeant destruction of planet Earth.

If you care any HUMAN life, you best start vocally speak out against every single war.

May mercy be given to us all. You cannot win a nuclear war.

[solidwater05]

i just realised john might be attracted to nukes because saint is oh em gee

Oh my god that's actually terrifying. He was putting everyone in saw traps earlier please don't let him like nukes he would actually destroy Exclamania. We don't need three or maybe even four world ending threats at once please

[tchaikovskaya]

i know my will to live is quite threadbare to begin with but i really dont understand people whose reaction to nuclear war* wouldnt be to just eat a bottle of sleeping pills and wash it down with hard liquor. like why on earth would you wanna live through that. the only reason i could imagine not calling it quits right there and then is a morbid curiosity of how it would all play out :/

[sapienthouse]

O_O star trek loves just casually dropping the most ominous false history. "not unlike the nuclear winters of the 21st century" wdym by that? we just don't get any more context for tht?

[letsplaythermalnuclearwar]

love that, in the Odyssey, there's one suitor (Leodes) who very specifically didn’t do anything wrong. he didn’t eat too much food, he didn’t harass the staff, he didn’t plot to kill Telemachus. and when Odysseus starts killing suitors, he begs for mercy because he was always respectful and kind and even tried to stop the other suitors from being like that

and I love that Odysseus was like “you were trying to marry my wife tho” and immediately kills him

[underthewingsofthblackeagle]

[moglim]

nobody has marceline and pb’s dynamic. nobody. unless you’re watering it down to pink girl and black girl kiss but like. come on

[willowchild]

I fucking hate being mentally ill. I hate how it ruins my life and affects others negatively.I wanna kill myself <3

[esyra]

Haven't heard from family in days. I feel like it's time to accept they're gone. I know in my heart Palestine will, one day, be free, but it wasn't supposed to be like this.

We feared another Nakba, and it happened. 700,000 pushed out of their homes in 1948 to 1 million being forced to leave their homes in 2023.

We thought it couldn't get worse or more deadly than the Israeli invasion in 2014, and it happened. We lost 2,251 people in 50 days then. Now we're past 2,300 in one week.

What I heard most from my grandmother the first days it's that "this time is different". And I feel like a rock is crushing my heart in pieces because i've been hoping that speaking out, teaching people about the historical oppresion of Palestine would help but it's not helping. Nothing is changing.

I feel like I'm screaming into a void. There's some sympathy from people online, until I see content documenting Palestinian oppresion being flagged as 'hate speech' or check the comments of any updates on Gaza and it's: "blame it on hamas", "tell them to give up hamas", "the hamas asked for it". They're not even among civilians!!!!!

My heart feels full seeing the manifestations in favor of Palestine, then I see police forces breaking protests apart and remember that the people that can actually save Gaza don't care.

If there's nothing left to do but to watch the extermination of my people, then I'm going to beg for anyone reading this to please don't forget. Please.

Israel is hiding behind Judaism to commit genocide against Gaza. Netanyahu supported the Hamas militant group to prevent the establishment of the Palestine State, and now he's using them to justify his agenda of ethnic cleansing. He abandoned Israelis and left them to die because he cares more about seeing Gazans dead!

Every single person and institution supporting and financing Israel is complicit. I hope the deaths of every Palestinian haunts you for the rest of your lives and that you never find an ounce of forgiveness, for you do not deserve it.

Just as in the Iraq War, the US government is financing and cheering for the slaughter of millions of innocent Arab lives. The media is complicit by engaging in biased propaganda and other nuclear powers, such as the UK and Germany, are complicit too. You are fascists and war criminals and every drop of Palestinian blood is in your hands. I hope every single day, for the rest of your lives, you look in the mirror and see nothing but the blood you've helped spill.

This serves as yet another proof that not a single Western in a position of power, be it in the media or in government, sees Arabs as humans beings.

For decades, the US has comitted terrorism and crimes against humanity in the Middle East and has NEVER been held accountable. Over one million in Iraq; over 150,000 in Afghanistan; and now they'll turn Gaza into a graveyard. Punishing selected soldiers over the years does not erase the fact that the American military and its government validates their crimes during execution and are never punished for it.

Please never forget: Joe Biden is a genocidal terrorist, Rishi Sunak is a genocidal terrorist, the American Democrat Party and UK's Labour Party are led by genocidal terrorists, the European Union is led by genocidal terrorists, fuckass Walt Disney Company is led by genocidal terrorists; every celebrity that called for Palestinian death or stood by silently while ignoring our suffering is a genocidal terrorist.

May Allah protect the people in Palestine and grant the martyrs the highest level of Jannah. Wallah what keeps me here is knowing that the Akhirah is theirs. May Almighty Allah grant us imaan and Taqwa as high as the people of Gaza. Ameen.

[chilledagridolce27]

spiraled into an oppenheimer internet wormhole and ended up here...

we should be talking about nukes guys