Somebody ate too much Lead
Antiwoke Straight of Hormwin
Submitted 18 hours ago by UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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ulterno@programming.dev 1 hour ago
Electric_Druid@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
bob_lemon@feddit.org 2 hours ago
Technically, this would be nuking the UAE and Yemen
NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net 1 hour ago
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
I was gonna say. This idea has been floating around for decades.
Bottom line: Yes it will work. It will also involve transporting nuclear warheads to another country, which probably violates all kinds of treaties and will set governments everywhere into a panic of epic proportions. The knock-on effects of nuclear contamination will be a problem for the local population, local water table, and local ocean currents. You can bet your bottom-dollar that these, and possibly more, problems will be shouldered by the soon-to-be-god-forsaken masses of whatever country eventually okays this idea.
Zamboni_Driver@lemmy.ca 56 minutes ago
So Newt is calling for nuclear bombs to be detonated in Israel?
smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
“Yes, we’re irradiated now, but gas is under $3/gal.”
Kirp123@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Well it would be Dubai and the Saudis that would be irradiated. They should be fine with it right?
Ariselas@piefed.ca 17 hours ago
the gas would likely be irradiated too. I heard of an early proposal to detonate nukes deep underground in the tar sands to bring the oil to the top, theoretically it would work but radioactive oil.
axh@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
That would guarantee a bright future for Dubai
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
fuck them saudis and their sportswashing
SarahValentine@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 hours ago
The
geiger counterDow will be over 50,000!Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 16 hours ago
Less than that. They’d have to sell this particular gas at a discount, considering it would be radioactive after making this detour.
backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 3 hours ago
You’re forgetting the power of marketing. Call it “Atomic Premium”, claim it’s formulated specifically for giant trucks with fake balls attached to the hitch, get a few hick-hop artists to name drop it in songs about cruising down red dirt roads, and run a meme campaign implying only woke blue-haired lib trannies with nose rings oppose irradiated gas. They’d drink it if they thought doing so would “own the libs”.
marcos@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Nah, both carbon and hydrogen can absorb neutrons just fine,
PhoenixDog@piefed.ca 17 hours ago
Well, not Americans, but brown people halfway across the world would be. But they’re not people to Americans so who cares.
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 17 hours ago
How bad would the radiation actually be?
NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social 17 hours ago
How bad can it possibly be? It’s only being held apart by a screwdriver
StrongHorseWeakNeigh@piefed.social 15 hours ago
Is newt Gingrich even still alive
Clbull@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Bamboodpanda@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
As funny as I find that article to be. The problem is that satire is reality most of the time these days. Even an idea as obviously dumb as this could actually be coming out of the white house.
Forester@pawb.social 17 hours ago
It’s not. This has been proposed multiple times throughout history. The U.S. program, named Project Plowshare, was active from the late 1950s to the 1970s and explored various peaceful applications for nuclear explosives. It was built on ideas from older, British and German plans. The Russians also had their own plans. This is not a new idea.
NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social 17 hours ago
Newt is not a new man
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Where, in OP’s post, does it claim this is a new idea?
tidderuuf@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Don’t a bunch of the Arab states make like extravagant man made islands and epic waterways? And they can’t find the resources to build this waterway through a couple mountains?
protist@retrofed.com 16 hours ago
Unfortunately, it would still be in close proximity to Iran and well within attack distance, so it would be completely pointless.
abbiistabbii@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 hours ago
Tell Newt to Google Nuclear winter.
grumpusbumpus@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Tell him to gobble broken glass.
OriginEnergySux@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
lechekaflan@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
I thought this motherfucker was dead.
VitoRobles@lemmy.today 10 hours ago
I mean it’s such a braindead take that he might as well be
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Oh god they are trying to do Plowshare 2.0.
stoy@lemmy.zip 17 hours ago
For those who don’t know about it, Project Plowshare was a cold war project where the US investigating the use of nuclear weapons for geo engineering projects.
Here is a WTYP Podcast episode about it:
Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
What a goddamned fucking idiot.
ChillPenguin@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
It’s gotta be lead… Right? Right?!
Wilco@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
Absolutely has to be lead poisoning. We need to get these insane fuckers tested for it and have them committed if it shows in their system. That may be exactly what is needed and how to “peacefully” get these weird fuckers to retire.
EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Don’t worry, they want/plan to put lead back into fuel so it affects an entire new generation
Tiger666@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
Safe? Lol
nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 18 hours ago
Is this… actually Newt? Honestly can’t tell would appreciate clarification
fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 17 hours ago
I too want to know if project plowshare is back on the menu
chocrates@piefed.world 17 hours ago
Isn’t Newt dead?
nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 17 hours ago
Fuck. No, not yet
StrongHorseWeakNeigh@piefed.social 13 hours ago
Yes, it is him and it is a real tweet.
Enkrod@feddit.org 7 hours ago
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I’ve stopped asking if people are this stupid, because yes, they are.
But, I think this is more about sowing fear, than a serious suggestion.
I keep trying to persuade myself, in spite of clear evidence to the contrary, that people are not this stupid. But, it doesn’t work.
marcos@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Oh man… I hate to blow your bubble, but that guy is just repeating something that was under serious consideration about 50 years ago.
He probably just remembers the proposals, and not the problems people found in it.
hperrin@lemmy.ca 16 hours ago
Omg, I absolutely love the idea of fuel exhaust that’s even more radioactive than it already is. I just love it so much I could die.
realitista@lemmus.org 15 hours ago
Has he ever looked at a map? The only way I could see this happening is by going through the most populated parts of UAE.
matlag@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
Sometimes, as leader, you need to make some hard calls! (hard for others, of course!).
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
That’s a bonus, in their view.
realitista@lemmus.org 15 hours ago
Still rather logistically difficult to convince the host country to nuke their major population centers.
mushroomman_toad@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 hours ago
Hey, I’m all for nuking Dubai. But free the slaves first so they can get away before the blast.
humanspiral@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
There is a price between $10m/kg and $100m/kg that Iranians sell enriched uranium to US to satisfy US denuclearization aims, and Iran gets its reparations/reconstruction concession, and full trade access to the world. Of course Bibi will keep saying they are 2 weeks away from a weapon, but you have to fuck bibi.
Quilotoa@lemmy.ca 15 hours ago
Or perhaps, stop bombing the people that control the strait.
matlag@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
YoU wOkE tRaItOr! IrAn iS 2 wEeKs aWaY fRoM hAvInG nUkE! aNd WMD! aNd iNvAdE IsRaEl! aNd tHeY eAt bAbieS!
ceenote@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Well, I guess if negotiating in good faith with the people who neighbor it is off the table, then… Nope that’s still fucking idiotic.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
www.chinatalk.media/p/its-time
Now, I know what the woke deep state is going to say, and I want to save you the trouble of listening to them.
“The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty?” Never ratified it. Even if we did, who cares. Next.
“The environmental impact?” Mr. Secretary, Iranian oil is leaking everywhere. Tankers are on fire near Fujairah. This approach is constructive destruction.
“Radiation?” Radiation is the most overblown left-wing conspiracy since climate change. The Plowshare’s 1962 underground Sedan test fallout reached South Dakota in 1962 and South Dakota is fine. Went for Trump by thirty points. Plus, the residual glow keeps Iran from trying anything funny near the new channel.
The views expressed above do not necessarily represent those of anyone with brain cells.
This is hilarious. Heh.
I don’t buy Gingrich’s earnesty. He must be trolling too. Most Republicans are doing it on Twitter now, so it fits the pattern.
nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 12 hours ago
[deleted]brucethemoose@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
It’s all a parody, though. That’s the point.
red_sock@lemmy.ml 16 hours ago
Leader (possibly) of the civilizing forces
RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip 11 hours ago
Sounds increadibly expensive.
Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 16 hours ago
There’s no way this is real.
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 hours ago
inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
god fucking damnit
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 hour ago
Tell me your mentally removed without saying the words
Tell me you have no idea about nuclear bombs, not the radiation, not the capabilities, nothing, without saying those words
Tell me you’re the dumbest fuck in class without saying the words