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RIP, was only watching this the other day:

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You and I might disagree on all sorts of things, but this is clearly true. They are absolutely racist.

Less of a big news story than Hockney’s passing, but OG British designer Nigel Cabourn also died yesterday.

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Pretty sure Rupert Lowe is absolutely fine with being known as a bigot, it’s his USP! Nicky Campbell saying it " is a bit too far " to label him is truly pathetic and dangerous.

I’d like to see some of these Ulster boys try their shit in Handsworth lol

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I’d definitely like to believe this but what is your reasoning for thinking this?

Because everyone knows exactly what everyone else is doing and they have the technology to shoot them down easily now. Ever notice how virtually nothing gets through Israel’s ā€œiron domeā€?

Drones etc are democratising war because everyone can afford thousands of cheap drones and can get them easily. Iran have no desire to kill themselves by nuking anyone. America is the most likely to nuke someone and they are still the only ones that ever have

If anyone believes America is doing this to keep anyone safe they need to give their head a wobble

Our nuclear system is completely dependent on the USA which isn’t exactly ideal in the current climate

Ukraine and now Iran have both proved that you can’t bully countries with nuclear threats like it’s the cold war anymore. Look at how much more powerful Russia are and Ukraine are currently almost winning without Americas help. Iran has Trump by the bollocks despite all his bluster.

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I agree Iran are a long way off being a nuclear threat but if any of the major nuclear powers decided to go for it then it would still be a bad day. There’s no shooting down very many ICBMs I don’t think.

Just not gonna happen. Iran are nowhere near having the Uranium. If you’re Iranian it must be pretty galling for Israel to have nukes ready to go and you’re not allowed to have them. Iran just need to posture that they want to because it is in their nature to do that and you can’t really blame them imo

If anyone’d going to fire a nuke it’s israel - north korea.

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America are still the only country to nuke another country, twice. You can’t rule them out when it comes to this shit. They have history of thinking it’s okay. The ends justify the means to them.

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That was fine when one else had them, but if they (or anyone else, looking at you Israel) ever tried it again it’d just be this:

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Mmm yeah I think USA let’s Israel do what they do, not the other way around. They want us to think they’re rogue.

Trumps rhetoric has been about wiping Iran out as a civilisation at times. So you’d have to think he is implying nukes. So the talk, even if bluster is there. I reckon the people with the twitchiest finger on the button are France, honestly. More so than Russia.

Iran is too big for the world economy to do that. They ( trump/maga )are having the time of their lives rigging every market on the planet while they can. Last thing they want is that gravy train to stop. Iran is very difficult to destroy in reality.

Who are France going to nuke?

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It’s gotta be good in the medium/long run because it’s pushing everyone to renewables, Trump can’t stop that. Relying on Iran is what Trump wants. The whole region is past it’s sell by date as far as having this control over the world economy. It’s the last gasp of that. Fuck relying on Iran or any gulf country for our financial stability. It’s crazy that we accept it

The way they are posturing to America lately, you have to think it’s because they have nukes too. As they couldn’t fight them any other way. Just the impression that I personally get. Others might not. My point about Trump is that he is clearly using nuclear talk even if he means it or not and that is dangerous.
Russia, Britain, France and America all had nukes when the Cuban missile crisis almost kicked off, so to say it couldn’t happen because America is not the only country any more seems odd, because it almost did. We were moments away from a nuclear war.

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Them days are over whole game changed

Hang on, France wants to nuke America? When did this happen?

Yeah, we thought about racists in power and Nazi regimes but look where we are in 2026. Trump is not leaving office. He’s building a ballroom with a nuclear bunker under it. So I can’t just think it’s completely impossible, ever.