I really dislike using 'TACO' here. It's a poor show that this has caught on as the name for this. Not bombing a nuclear power plant should not be regarded as 'chickening out'.
It is not cowardice. It is refraining from performing an evil act, one that should not have been decided to do in the first place.
Just as how the #IranWar being declared the day after the Pakistan-Afghanistan war was declared lead many people to overlook the latter, the events set to happen on Tuesday may well eclipse those of Monday.
https://mastodon.scot/@JdeBP/116277025658387208
There is precedent for a 'TACO', blaming it upon some nebulous behaviour of an allied country and declaring the war over (again). But if not, the world is going to change this week.
You might treat that last as hyperbole, until you read about the incident last week. It's not any kind of exaggeration.
#DonaldJTrump did fact check with the actual U.S.A. military, but his *first* source of information, leading him to believe that the USS Abraham Lincoln was on fire, was a social media video.
How, I wonder, will historians in the years to come judge the damage potential of #AIslop, with this in the record?
U.S. President Donald Trump claimed on Monday that Iran is using artificial intelligence to spread false propaganda about the ongoing war. Specifically, the President accused Tehran of fabricating fake, AI-generated footage that depicted the USS Abraham Lincoln on fire and falsely showed buildings burning across the Middle East.
I'm treating the future after the highly illegal (under the jus in bello) bombing of a nuclear power plant as too chaotic to be predictable.
The world was very different after Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, and those two were *accidents*.
We are facing Hiroshima+Nagasaki levels of change to the world.
Done by, as #HouseOfEl recently observed, a person who posts in all-caps on Truth Social after viewing social media videos.
Trump's rhetoric is building to him dropping a nuclear bomb on Iran.
There are no "adults in the room" willing to stop him & the poor guys sitting in the silos or flying the planes believe they have no choice but to follow the order.
The other world nations won't stop him either.
It will happen. It's just a matter of when & that time is getting closer & closer.
There is a maniac in charge of the U.S. government & he must be stopped.
At least 40 injured after Iranian missile strikes Israeli town home to nuclear facility
By Lucy Davalou & AP Published on 21/03/2026 – 21:13 GMT+1 At least 40 people have been injured after an Iranian…
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#Pakistan is in a different war, with #Afghanistan, declared the day before the #IranWar and largely overlooked. They're currently in a 5-day ceasefire for #Eid.
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Very few European and U.S.A. news services are devoting major coverage to this, the second of three on-going wars involving the world's nuclear powers.
The wretched orange is a week or two ahead of my estimation as to when he would start threatening a nuclear strike.
We have a raving madman in the Oval Office. Can you imagine if this were President Obama or Biden saying this shit?
#Iran #iranwar #wariniran #nuclear #nuclearwar #WWIII #WW3 #destroyingAmerican #endoftheworld #criminal #madman #lunatic #idiot #shithead
"Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed but now they are full cities again," the multibillionaire owner of Tesla, SpaceX and X said.
"That's great, that's great," Mr Trump responded.
"It is not as scary as people think, basically," Mr Musk added.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/elon-musk-japan-nuclear-attacks-b2595497.html
#hiroshima #nagasaki #nuclear #nuclearwar #nuclearweapons #Trump #Musk
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