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[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 29 points 10 months ago

I’m gonna guess that what he’s attempting to refer to here is the Iron Dome system of Israeli fame.

We already have anti-ballistic missile systems:

  • the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense system is exactly what it sounds like
  • Aegis, Patriot, and THAAD are all short-range, terminal phase anti-ballistic-capable systems.

Also, to be clear, it would be a very bad idea for the US to pursue an expansion of the GMD system to be “impermeable” to a peer state, because not only would it be cripplingly expensive (even in the context of US military budgets), but it would also diminish the disincentive of doing a nuclear first strike (which would obviously lead directly to an intercontinental nuclear war), and you can guess who would want to do something like that.

[-] dhork@lemmy.world 46 points 10 months ago

Joke's on you, in the time it took you to write out this informed rebuttal he's already moved on to wet magnets.

[-] DontRedditMyLemmy@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago
[-] dhork@lemmy.world 42 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Try to keep up with the gish gallop:

https://news.yahoo.com/donald-trump-latest-relentlessly-stupid-084138421.html

The Republican 2024 front-runner on Friday complained to a crowd of supporters in Mason City, Iowa, about electric catapults and magnetic elevator systems for U.S. aircraft carriers.

The four-times-indicted former president polarized with this line: “All I know about magnets is this, give me a glass of water, let me drop it on the magnets, that’s the end of the magnets.”

[-] meco03211@lemmy.world 32 points 10 months ago
[-] SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

Speak confidently and people will assume you are right, no matter how stupid what you're saying is

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago
[-] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

I thought you were joking, but then a couple posts down was an article about his wet magnet comments. Unbefuckinglievable.

[-] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago
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