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[–] megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Why would having it be in a vest be useful, so it’s concealed until you’re really close? Like, it’s a fucking nuke, it’s not like you need to get in particularly close for it to have the intended effect.

Like, he’s just mashing the image of a suicide bomber in with the fear of nukes to strike as many “panic! danger! scary!” notes as possible.

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[–] Soulphite@reddthat.com 224 points 5 days ago (10 children)
[–] fun_times@lemmy.world 24 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Normally I get angry at these pathological liars but this lie is so absurdly stupid that it's actually funny.

Imagine someone driving their van to a parking lot near the white house and then going "Welp, better strap on my suicide nuke that will obliterate the entire city. I see no other way of doing this."

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[–] Paragone@lemmy.world 125 points 5 days ago (14 children)

There is a minimum-amount of fission-fuel required, AND there is a minimum-amount of conventional-explosives required to compress the fission-fuel until it goes supercritical.

That detonator isn't going to be small-enough to hide in a vest.

Absolute disinformation.

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[–] Soulphite@reddthat.com 48 points 5 days ago (1 children)

JD should stick to fucking couches, not nuclear physics.

[–] Ariselas@piefed.ca 24 points 5 days ago

I mean, yeah, the Davie Crockett could fit in a back pack, a really big back pack 0hPf1HdHAWM2L90.webp

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[–] thatradomguy@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago

Every nuke can be considered a suicide bomb. Ffs get this guy out of any kind of position making decisions.

[–] volore@scribe.disroot.org 75 points 5 days ago (4 children)

This is the same JD Vance that repeatedly falsely claimed immigrants were eating cats and dogs in his home state, is it not?

I'm not saying a nuclear suicide vest couldn't be done. I'm just saying, JD Vance has claimed lots of things.

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[–] Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world 25 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (18 children)

Maybe a dirty bomb with nuclear materials, but an actual fission bomb on a vest? No. Never mind they don't have the enriched fuel, never mind just building a working device would be extremely difficult for them and that would be large like the Hiroshima bomb.

This is Iraq Weapons of Mass Distraction all over again. Fuck this administration.

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 19 points 4 days ago (1 children)

"Vance says" is like when my 3-year-old blames everything on the cat. Who ate all the nesquik Jonathan, was it the cat, or was it you with nesquik on your face? Who can say.

[–] 01189998819991197253 1 points 3 days ago

No, see, a raccoon busted in here. He said, he said to me, "that nesquik is mine, Jonathan", he said, and then he ate it all, didn't even mix it with the milk, just ate it powdered, then the raccoon smeared some on me and said, "Jonathan, this is now your fault mwahaha" and ran off!

[–] Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world 20 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Thats.......not how nuclear arms work.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 days ago (8 children)

Isn't the smallest effective nuke the Davy Crocket? Pretty sure it's warhead is still the size of a large hardcase suitcase.

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[–] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 21 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

The demonic ritual of human sacrifice

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[–] kaito@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago

He should make one and demonstrate how it would work.

[–] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 37 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Iran could turn their front line soldiers into beings of pure energy and they could rip the life force right out of a tank.

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[–] Tetragrade@leminal.space 11 points 4 days ago

I heard they're developing a new Shahed bomb that can blow up a church and rebuild it into a mosque.

[–] KulunkelBoom@lemmus.org 12 points 4 days ago (3 children)

When will this lying sack of shit starting painting his face orange?

[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

His tongue is already stained orange

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[–] harcesz@szmer.info 32 points 5 days ago

USA could develop a more fuckable couch, and ride us of one problem, but here we are.

[–] Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca 19 points 4 days ago (2 children)

JD Vance also claims he's capable of pleasing his wife.

[–] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

JD Vance, also known as a couch fucker, could develop pubic hair within the next 15 years, endangering his aim while peeing as he won't be able to find his micropenis anymore and won't be able to shave it out of fear of shaving his micropenis off. Couches would finally be safe.

Spread the word.

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[–] luthis@lemmy.nz 42 points 5 days ago (5 children)

'Iran could develop hulk technology and teleport directly into US schools!' JD Vance

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[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 43 points 5 days ago (2 children)

This shit again? Last time it was a brief case dirty bomb.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 29 points 5 days ago (1 children)
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[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 24 points 5 days ago (3 children)
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[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 37 points 5 days ago (5 children)

These fuckers are so inept at propaganda, it's kinda sad.

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[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Why does anyone care what the VP thinks? His job requires him to be hosting a book club or at a state funeral or something.

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

It is fun to mock dumb people like him

[–] Ydna@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

Quick, get Jack Bauer on the case!

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Just Dumb fails to acknowledge the fucked up US healthcare system is deadlier to Americans than the stupid shit that developed in the vacuum between his ears.

[–] Naich@piefed.world 29 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Just a reminder that the 9/11 attackers did it with knives.

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 25 points 5 days ago (10 children)

Kinda wild, I vividly remember getting on a plane to Disney with my grandparents as a child (Pre 9/11). My grandpa had a swiss army knife on him when we went through security. I asked him how he was able to get that through, and he said it's a small knife; nothing to worry about. It's legal as long as it's smaller than my palm. I said what if someone brought a knife like that and stabbed the pilot. He laughed it off and said I watch too much TV. Then 9/11 happened and guess how they did it? How did 8 year old me have more sense than whoever was running airports in those days?

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[–] WandowsVista@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago

at this point, he's just my mom's facebook news feed in human form.

... and unfortunately it's working.

[–] Sarmyth@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Sure they could buddy... sure they could.

[–] DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The US is incentivizing Iran to make nukes.

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[–] Jiral@lemmy.org 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

WMD trucks was it one of the previous times the US set the region on fire, wasn't it?

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 18 points 5 days ago (2 children)
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[–] Bieren@lemmy.today 5 points 4 days ago

But we won the war and obliterated their military and nuclear programs.

[–] 01189998819991197253 1 points 3 days ago

Lololol I think this bloke's being serious

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