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I would guess in exactly the same way they treat every other red line crossed by MAGA.

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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!”

6. The entire habitable world will perish probably within a month.

But ya know… life finds a way

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.

lol americans wont do shit as usual ahahaha!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-H5m_BeJoQA

I'd book the very first flight out of this shithole before nukes start dropping over here.

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.

Nothing, absolutely nothing. Just look at the state America is in now. Epstein island, Trump president and ICE to name a few. Nothing much is happening.

So why would this particular event change anything? I don’t think Americans will do anything unless their own country is in immediate threat of being nuked and then again, most probably will just shout in void on the internet.

As a American, we wouldnt even care. Maybe 2-3 days of news, maybe a few protests. But that's it.

I'm being real.

We had a crazy person do a school shooting on a elementary school called Sandy Hook.

We had cops drop actual bombs on citizens in West Philadelphia.

Remember when America bombed that country and killed thousands of civilians? Are you going "which one"? Cambodia. Vietnam. Iraq. Iran. Hell, Iran's bombing had literal school children.

We wouldn't care.

I had said this about a year ago, but i strongly believe that one country (US, Russia, Israel, etc) will get a “one free nuke” pass. Way too much time has passed since WW2 and though people know what it does, the visceral feeling isn’t there.

The first one to drop one will receive a lot of condemnation, sanctions and hand wringing but that will be it. Now if a second one is dropped by any nation, that will most likely trigger an armed conflict.

But right now, countries have become too passive about physical action and would not know how to react.

It's not going to happen. I don't think you understand how nukes work nor the long term ramifications.

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?

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.