Comments on: WMDs

By: storminator

storminator — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:33:22 +0000

my Dad saw five nuclear explosions in the army. “OPERATION CASTLE”.

By: Stolid

Stolid — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 21:01:27 +0000

tl;dr

By: Phyreblade

Phyreblade — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:36:43 +0000

@HoChunk: I disagree with AUS BUTTs initial assessment of the effects of these weapons. The modern day iteration of these weapons CAN, in fact, inflict massive, long term damage to the planet, especially given the yields and numbers in which they currently exist. However I also have to agree with nyokki wrt what I see thelotuseater725 trying to say about your contention that seeing a dead body would be sufficient motivation to curtail their use. Everyone deals with these things in their own way. And humor about it is just as valid a coping mechanism as grief. You're argument makes the basic (and, imho, flawed) assumption that everyone will have the same response to violence that you have. But the truth is that some won't care, greed can win out over compassion, others will blame everything else, even after experiencing it up close and personal. Some will make light of it, and others (like yourself) will rail against it. That is how people are. But I think it is a mistake to presume that others do not understand it simply because they do not treat the issue with the same kind of reverence you do.

By: HoChunk

HoChunk — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:34:22 +0000

@nyokki: Okay, but I haven’t, and since his first comments are addressing me, specifically, I take them as read.

“…the real world is fucking hell…This is the real world, HoChunk…”

If you say so, munchkin.

By: nyokki

nyokki — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:17:45 +0000

@HoChunk: That's not quite what I see, but I've read a thousand or so comments by lotus and see his current comments as part of a whole.

By: DisplacedTexan

DisplacedTexan — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:10:31 +0000

LOUD NOISES!!!

By: HoChunk

HoChunk — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:50:29 +0000

@WistfulD: Whatever. The irony is that he chose to take statements directed at others –ones that largely sympathize with his own POV– as some kind of personal insult. Predictably, when the real insults were delivered he spazzed out in this paroxysm of 9/11 I’ve-seen-the-true-face-of-humanity bathos. Either way, I’m only to happy to have aided his little catharsis. Been there, and it’s all part of entering the wonderful world of grown-ups.

By: WistfulD

WistfulD — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:11:16 +0000

@HoChunk-
Give him a break. You heard him, he was in sixth grade when 9/11 went down (and he thinks living in NY that day is somehow equivalent to experiencing war). Give him a few years of adulthood, and he might start being able to sound coherent.

By: HoChunk

HoChunk — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:17:56 +0000

@nyokki: Of course --and fuck them the most. I was answering those who make light of it, which remedial-English thesis-author 'telotuseater725' might understand if he can get over the sound of his own voice for fifteen straight seconds.

By: Phyreblade

Phyreblade — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 10:56:39 +0000

Sheesh… Bewm?