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Lololol I think this bloke's being serious

[–] megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Why would having it be in a vest be useful, so it’s concealed until you’re really close? Like, it’s a fucking nuke, it’s not like you need to get in particularly close for it to have the intended effect.

Like, he’s just mashing the image of a suicide bomber in with the fear of nukes to strike as many “panic! danger! scary!” notes as possible.

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[–] thatradomguy@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

Every nuke can be considered a suicide bomb. Ffs get this guy out of any kind of position making decisions.

[–] Sarmyth@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Sure they could buddy... sure they could.

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Just Dumb fails to acknowledge the fucked up US healthcare system is deadlier to Americans than the stupid shit that developed in the vacuum between his ears.

[–] fun_times@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Normally I get angry at these pathological liars but this lie is so absurdly stupid that it's actually funny.

Imagine someone driving their van to a parking lot near the white house and then going "Welp, better strap on my suicide nuke that will obliterate the entire city. I see no other way of doing this."

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[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Another retread of the Iraq war. They scared us with "dirty bombs" and man pack nukes back then too.

[–] kaito@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

He should make one and demonstrate how it would work.

[–] Ydna@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Quick, get Jack Bauer on the case!

[–] Tetragrade@leminal.space 11 points 1 day ago

I heard they're developing a new Shahed bomb that can blow up a church and rebuild it into a mosque.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why does anyone care what the VP thinks? His job requires him to be hosting a book club or at a state funeral or something.

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

It is fun to mock dumb people like him

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"Vance says" is like when my 3-year-old blames everything on the cat. Who ate all the nesquik Jonathan, was it the cat, or was it you with nesquik on your face? Who can say.

No, see, a raccoon busted in here. He said, he said to me, "that nesquik is mine, Jonathan", he said, and then he ate it all, didn't even mix it with the milk, just ate it powdered, then the raccoon smeared some on me and said, "Jonathan, this is now your fault mwahaha" and ran off!

[–] KulunkelBoom@lemmus.org 12 points 1 day ago (3 children)

When will this lying sack of shit starting painting his face orange?

[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

His tongue is already stained orange

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[–] thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

you cant make a nuke that small

backpack? yes. vest? probably not.

[–] modus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Not with that attitude.

[–] Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (18 children)

Maybe a dirty bomb with nuclear materials, but an actual fission bomb on a vest? No. Never mind they don't have the enriched fuel, never mind just building a working device would be extremely difficult for them and that would be large like the Hiroshima bomb.

This is Iraq Weapons of Mass Distraction all over again. Fuck this administration.

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[–] Bieren@lemmy.today 5 points 1 day ago

But we won the war and obliterated their military and nuclear programs.

[–] Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Thats.......not how nuclear arms work.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Isn't the smallest effective nuke the Davy Crocket? Pretty sure it's warhead is still the size of a large hardcase suitcase.

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It would be a nuclear chest

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[–] Eddbopkins@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

More gaslight bullshit from th trump suckers administration of 2026.

[–] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago (2 children)
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[–] Jiral@lemmy.org 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

WMD trucks was it one of the previous times the US set the region on fire, wasn't it?

[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 5 points 1 day ago

Guess the US will be bombing Iran's vest factories next.

[–] GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

JD Vance could stop fucking couches, but that ain't happening either.

[–] 33550336@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Maybe I lack imagination since I would never came to an idea of nuclear vest

[–] DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The US is incentivizing Iran to make nukes.

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[–] Soulphite@reddthat.com 223 points 3 days ago (10 children)
[–] sirico@feddit.uk 3 points 1 day ago

Oh we're back from the wilderness scratching at the door to be let back in are we JD?

[–] Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 days ago (3 children)

JD Vance also claims he's capable of pleasing his wife.

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[–] AlexLost@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

The dude thinks couches are attractive. Not exactly a shining light in the darkness here...

[–] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 37 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Iran could turn their front line soldiers into beings of pure energy and they could rip the life force right out of a tank.

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[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Fun fact: the smallest nuclear bomb was (is?) small enough to carry in a backpack.

[–] BiNonBi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Another fun fact: The United States had nuclear suicide teams

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[–] Paragone@lemmy.world 123 points 2 days ago (17 children)

There is a minimum-amount of fission-fuel required, AND there is a minimum-amount of conventional-explosives required to compress the fission-fuel until it goes supercritical.

That detonator isn't going to be small-enough to hide in a vest.

Absolute disinformation.

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