Solarbird 

Literal lunatic:

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2676666743/

Honestly worrying, despite myself, about him throwing a nuke. I don't think he will but at this point I can't tell, and he just fuckin' might.

Of course, that's what's what left of his brain wants us all to think, which makes it less likely he will, but despite all that, the only reason I think he might not is because his emotional reversion to childhood seems complete and the typical 1950s "Duck and Cover" kid is terrified of nuclear weapons (FOR GOOD REASON, LET ME BE CLEAR) so I think that'll keep him from doing it.

But holy shit, the idea that the only thing keeping him from throwing a nuke is his dementia.

Fuck, we did not have to be here.

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Trump throws F-bomb in frenzied threat to destroy civilian infrastructure

President Donald Trump issued a curse-laden threat to Iran on Sunday, warning its leaders that unless they cave to his demand to re-open a critical shipping channel to U.S. vessels, the United States would launch an unprecedented attack Tuesday on Iranian civilian infrastructure.“Tuesday will be Pow...

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Show threadmyrmepropagandist4h ago

@moira

He's joked about it before. Then you have the people who push back when you say Hiroshima was a war crime. "No no no really it saved lives."

I also wonder if no one wants to talk about this because it's just too terrible.

And also that idea that there are some horrible things that become more real when you speak about them.

The admin keeps kicking out the kind of people who'd say no. Pulling off the guardrails. Why is it unreasonable to be worried?

Show threadSolarbird 1h ago

@futurebird It's not unreasonable. I just don't think I should be.

First, because there is absolutely fucking nothing I can do about it. Seeing all this coming for decades meant I worked every lever I had or could get hold of as early and as often I could, because it's the kind of thing where someone like me only has so much power and what little I have is most effectively used when the momentum is low and there's lots of time to change things, to inch society away from the nightmare scenario, changing curves, yak yak nobody cares, except for the takeaway, which is:

_At this point_, with us all so deep in it, _I don't got much left I can do_. I still do what's I can do, but my ability is in moving _first_, not moving _large_.

But also...

Show threadSolarbird 1h ago

@futurebird ...I'm not joking about the whole "emotional return to childhood" thing. That's his world now. That turd of his this morning on his fake social media site is the screaming outburst of an angry, spoiled, and frightened 10 year old not getting what he wants and now.

That bizarre post about Davy Crockett a couple of nights ago? Same thing, basically. Same _emotional_ era for him. That's what's still working in his head.

And whereas adult Shitstain might fantasize about throwing a nuke around, 10 year old Donny, given when he grew up with the whole depths-of-the-cold-war oh-god-nukes era in which he was a kid... I don't think that kid would. Not out of any sort of intellectual reasoning, but just out of 1950s nuclear war terror.

Show threadSolarbird 1h ago

@futurebird And maybe I'm just whistling past the graveyard on that. I hope not, and I don't think I am.

But I could be.

Either way, I got nothin' left available to use. So... why worry?

Show threadGueule d'atmosphère1h ago
@moira @futurebird
The prime function of nuclear weapons is psychological warfare. Their actual use is a failure scenario, as there is no "success" for anyone in it. So remaining clear-headed is actually a win, such as it is.
Show threadgarland3h ago
@moira I’m definitely thinking about it. It makes me scared and sad, that the actual end of the world is one possible outcome. Doesn’t help that I recently read “Nuclear War: A Scenario” by Annie Jacobsen, which is excellent and terrifying.