America last night
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This shit is actually not funny. Why isn’t anyone taking the beginning of world war three seriously. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.
Oh is it world war 3 again? Crumbs it's come around fast this time hasn't it. Are we up to them securing the oil fields yet, or are they still talking about WMDs?
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This shit is actually not funny. Why isn’t anyone taking the beginning of world war three seriously. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.
What would you have me do?
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We really shouldn't have made fun of his birthday parade, he got upset and is acting out.
Look at what you made me do
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That's not how these things work, if anything, the more serious an event is, the more that thing is going to be what people make jokes and memes about, to dampen the stress of the situation if nothing else. I'm not sure there's actually such a thing as an event so serious that nobody makes jokes about it.
I heard a couple of comedians make jokes about the 787 Air India crash like two days after it happened.
They didn’t get any laughs, and even got a few mutters from the audience.
They said something like, “the plane crashed while taking off from Ahmedabad. Maybe it should be ‘Ah-plane-is-bad.’” Or maybe, “Ah-made-a-bad-plane.” I can’t remember. Crickets.
(Inside I wanted to tell them that the Boeing 787 has one of the best safety records of any commercial airliner. It’s not a bad plane. But obviously that isn’t funny either. And heckling is shitty.)
Then they said, “Miraculously one man survived. He walked off the plane, over to an ambulance, pointed back at the wreckage and said, ‘Do NOT go in there!’”
This got a few chuckles, but it was clearly uncomfortable.
I’m not sure how we know as a group what is okay and what isn’t okay to laugh about. But usually I argue humor is a good coping mechanism.
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This is serious, but I'm not seeing how this is the beginning of WWIII. China attacking Taiwan could be that, but this really isn't.
So the US, Israel, and Germany have been directly involved in this conflict thus far.
Russia is currently in a war with Ukraine as we know, and has announced their support of Iran. North Korea has been sending troops to this conflict. US and much of western Europe is already involved in some way.
China has been reported sending some kind of undisclosed aid to Iran already.
Currently unrelated but Pakistan and India just had a border skirmish. Pakistan does border Iran.
There's a lot of instability and World Wars worth of countries involved already. It truly wouldn't take much to start connecting some of these conflicts. If that happens it gets much bigger
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We really shouldn't have made fun of his birthday parade, he got upset and is acting out.
That breakdown he had yesterday about never getting a Nobel Peace Prize was maaaaajor foreshadowing.
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Has anyone tried doing this to Trump? might make him settle down a bit.
He already gets professionally strapped into a girdle every morning. I don't think swaddling would add any noticeable effect.
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This shit is actually not funny. Why isn’t anyone taking the beginning of world war three seriously. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.
Think of all the sticks and stones everybody will have once this is over.
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This shit is actually not funny. Why isn’t anyone taking the beginning of world war three seriously. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.
You are taking crazy pills. Who is the other major power involved in this war? Russia? They barely talked about the attacks. They are way too busy in the Ukraine?
China? You think China will risk it's prosperity for an isolated theocratic regime?
So who's left?
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This shit is actually not funny. Why isn’t anyone taking the beginning of world war three seriously. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.
Laugh or scream.
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Laugh or scream.
Best point made so far.
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You are taking crazy pills. Who is the other major power involved in this war? Russia? They barely talked about the attacks. They are way too busy in the Ukraine?
China? You think China will risk it's prosperity for an isolated theocratic regime?
So who's left?
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Would the USA go to war against China to prevent China from becoming the hegemon? If so, what is the strategic relevancy of Iran for China? At least right now Iran is an important source for oil but that could also come from Russia.
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Would the USA go to war against China to prevent China from becoming the hegemon? If so, what is the strategic relevancy of Iran for China? At least right now Iran is an important source for oil but that could also come from Russia.
China would not risk a global conflict crashing their economy for a war in Iran. As you said, Russian Oil is sufficient for China.
And no, not even under the auspices of chief Cheeto would America risk a direct confrontation with a nuclear power such as China. A proxy war? Sure.
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Huh, never thought about it before, but there's pretty significant overlap between Trump and Cartman. Both petty, whiney, infantile, racist, narcissistic, antisemitic, stupid, ridiculous, vindictive nazis with an inflated sense of importance and a surprisingly large number of devotees despite very obviously being the bad guy. The only difference that comes to mind is that Cartman is physically a child instead of only mentally.
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I heard a couple of comedians make jokes about the 787 Air India crash like two days after it happened.
They didn’t get any laughs, and even got a few mutters from the audience.
They said something like, “the plane crashed while taking off from Ahmedabad. Maybe it should be ‘Ah-plane-is-bad.’” Or maybe, “Ah-made-a-bad-plane.” I can’t remember. Crickets.
(Inside I wanted to tell them that the Boeing 787 has one of the best safety records of any commercial airliner. It’s not a bad plane. But obviously that isn’t funny either. And heckling is shitty.)
Then they said, “Miraculously one man survived. He walked off the plane, over to an ambulance, pointed back at the wreckage and said, ‘Do NOT go in there!’”
This got a few chuckles, but it was clearly uncomfortable.
I’m not sure how we know as a group what is okay and what isn’t okay to laugh about. But usually I argue humor is a good coping mechanism.
Just sounds like a bad joke to me. But I tend to dislike all stand up stuff, so I'll wait until someone else judges this.
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So the US, Israel, and Germany have been directly involved in this conflict thus far.
Russia is currently in a war with Ukraine as we know, and has announced their support of Iran. North Korea has been sending troops to this conflict. US and much of western Europe is already involved in some way.
China has been reported sending some kind of undisclosed aid to Iran already.
Currently unrelated but Pakistan and India just had a border skirmish. Pakistan does border Iran.
There's a lot of instability and World Wars worth of countries involved already. It truly wouldn't take much to start connecting some of these conflicts. If that happens it gets much bigger
General instability does not make a world war. It takes quite a lot of deliberate effort for that to happen. Undisclosed aid to Iran means nothing, and Pakistan India border skirmishes are unrelated to Iran.
The most likely scenario I could see is if the US gets bogged down in a drawn out war with Iran, and other powers, China specifically, exploits that situation to do their own expanding. It helps that the US has never been weaker, and that its leadership is easily exploitable of course. Although it is also unpredictable.
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Huh, never thought about it before, but there's pretty significant overlap between Trump and Cartman. Both petty, whiney, infantile, racist, narcissistic, antisemitic, stupid, ridiculous, vindictive nazis with an inflated sense of importance and a surprisingly large number of devotees despite very obviously being the bad guy. The only difference that comes to mind is that Cartman is physically a child instead of only mentally.
That, and access to the nuclear codes…
