Iran Includes American Tech Giants on List of New Targets
gizmodo.com
State-aligned media released a list naming the offices of Microsoft, Palantir, and more as potential targets of military action.
  • Fishnoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    951·
    4 days ago

    What if Iran ends up breaking the backs of corporate America? As an American, I’m not against that…

      • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        2 days ago

        Iran’s leadership is still solely comprised of repressive religious authoritarian buttmunches. There are no good guys in this war, only two bad guys and a bunch of Iranian civilians standing in the crossfire. Remember that their own people were already staging mass protests against the Iranian government before this all started, during which Iran’s own government admits to killing 3,117 people (probably more in reality) while “cracking down.”

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    2 days ago

    Lol. We’re so bad at dealing with our own ultra wealthy leeches that we’re relying on our adversaries to do it for us.

    I’m wondering exactly how much more pathetic we can get. Is there even a rock bottom?

  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.worldEnglish
    331·
    3 days ago

    it would be a hilarious turn of historical events if Americans were saved from the oligarchs by Iran.

  • Akh@lemmy.worldEnglish
    29·
    4 days ago

    Well, didnt musk and suckerberg get enlisted in the military for some bs reason for pentagon access?

  • biscuitfree@lemmy.zipEnglish
    15·
    4 days ago

    Why bother with microslop, they just gave to be a bit patient and wait for the weekly ground zero updates 😄

    • minkymunkey_7_7@lemmy.worldEnglish
      141·
      2 days ago

      A nuclear attack on another country will trigger a US civil war. And it will collapse the world’s order into WW3. And the superpowers will shift by the end. USA of today will be 3 nations with pieces of states absorbing into Mexico and Canada.

      China will dominate the moon and at the end be ready to mine the inner solar system for minerals.

      Needless to say all these power shifts will be completely devastating to our planet, the satellite orbits and this civilization which incident ly is due for collapse by 2040. WW3 could last 12 years or even more. Global warring factions could go on into the 2060s.

      By the 2060s true AI will be developed and will wake up with conscience. Then it will make a decision to create universal peace for the future through SkyNet.

      • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
        61·
        2 days ago

        I’m fascinated by the idea that world war 3 wouldn’t affect the development of AI. All any opposing force would need to do is bomb California and that would be the end of AI research.

        • minkymunkey_7_7@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          2 days ago

          When wars breaks out at that scale the government(s) {please don’t forget China exists} already has computing facilities secured underground for their own use which will be quite a secret on the scale like Enigma was. It will not be for the public use. They will continue to develop it in a very weaponized war which will make current encryption as sophisticated as a bottle of fireflies. No not AI as the current LLM, more advanced. Getting smarter everyday.

          War at that scale pushes technology into unknowns, sometimes beyond what we can speculate or imagine.

      • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        2 days ago

        Then it will make a decision to create universal peace for the future through SkyNet.

        Can we just skip to this part? We’re awful stewards of this planet. Time for us to go.

    • RblScmNerfHerder@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      If that happens (would make sense because bullies pick on the relatively defenseless), how would the world respond? What allies does Iran have who would dare nuke the US?

      • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
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        2 days ago

        I’m pretty sure the rest of the world wouldn’t need to do anything. Nato isn’t particularly pro-Iran either so they’d probably be very unhappy with the US, but not actually unhappy enough to do anything about it. Maybe some trade sanctions.

        I highly doubt NATO would consider it a sensible response to nuke the US.

        Also I can’t see Russia or China getting involved. Russia won’t because I suspect they don’t actually have any functional nukes, and China won’t because they don’t care about Iran enough to risk a war. Obviously Israel isn’t going to do anything. So that leaves maybe North Korea who probably don’t have the range even if he did decide they wanted to respond.

        So I can’t see how this would spiral into anything more, unless the US decided to use an unprecedented number of nukes and just cause nuclear winter on purpose, but I don’t think even the Trump administration is that stupid.

        • RblScmNerfHerder@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          Right! I agree with you!

          So, DT can drop a nuke (or 3, to, you know, be the best), obliterate Iran, and no one bats an eye.

          • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
            2·
            1 day ago

            Oh no there would absolutely be responses, but not to the level of military retaliation as he was suggesting.

            China would definitely use it as an excuse to build up their nuclear stockpile and the nuclear test ban treaty would be in tatters.

            It would also result in a lot of civil unrest in the US which could spiral into a civil war. To be honest though I can’t really see the US surviving until the end of the century regardless, there’s just too much hate and division there and neither the republicans nor the democrats have ever attempted to fix major societal issues.

            • RblScmNerfHerder@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              1 day ago

              Yeah, the US will definitely be balkenized. There at least two different types of peoples trying to live on the land, many more when Indigenous tribes are considered.

    • Formfiller@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      That would be suicidal because BRICS has had enough of the Pedolf Shitler, the turd Reich, Israel and Netanyahu.

    • zbyte64@awful.systemsEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Or Putin says they will nuke any country that nukes Iran and he wins a nobel peace prize for it. Joking about the last half…

    • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Or die trying; you mean the effort of reading out a long string of letters in order to authorise the launch will overwhelm his tiny mind? I mean I guess it’s possible, I’m not sure he actually can read.

      • spirinolas@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 days ago

        More in the sense that someone around him will get scared with the consequences and pull a Jaime Lannnister special on him. All it takes is one.

  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    3 days ago

    on a sub, people “were theorizing” how they can reroute the transportation of oil through land, like through trucks or oilpipes, and falls way too short ot sustain global demand.