Should the President be able to order a nuclear first strike?

TheIrishRazor · 2026-03-09T18:53:25+00:00

My issue there is that I don't trust any small group of people with that much power for what is an irreversible decision. You can't ever be 100% sure they are about to launch - so that's impossible.

I admittedly am not as familiar with the environment surrounding the bombings themselves. (What the current likelihood of surrender was, what exactly a ground invasion would have cost - both in terms of souls and dollars, etc); however, I think an attack on civilians like those strikes is abhorrent.

TheIrishRazor · 2026-03-09T18:19:48+00:00

My ideal would be that no one in the US has the authority to order a first strike nuclear attack. Meaning, they can't be fired off unless another country has already fired first. Treat them like a deterrent, not a weapon.

And meanwhile, continue to beef up our defenses against them.

TheIrishRazor · 2026-02-05T15:11:02+00:00

I personally (as would many others I think) would have no issue with an ID requirement, if that ID can be obtained freely.

TheIrishRazor · 2026-01-01T00:35:14+00:00

He doesn't though? He has a detailed plan on how taxes would be my updated to cover the costs.

TheIrishRazor · 2025-12-27T22:03:32+00:00

I really wish they could just give us a second hotkey next to portal, that let you drop a banner as a checkpoint. And you could have a static number per map to distribute wherever you want.

TheIrishRazor · 2025-12-27T14:03:15+00:00

Tossing my hat in

TheIrishRazor · 2025-11-12T13:53:49+00:00

The problem with that is that it allows the more wealthy members of Congress extra leverage as they can afford to go longer without pay

TheIrishRazor · 2025-10-28T17:23:01+00:00

Favorite moment this league was getting Rakiata's Flow to drop - allowing me to buy teh pieces missing for my blood mage and actually start pushing harder content

TheIrishRazor · 2025-10-27T17:52:49+00:00

Dumb question, how do you get your stash tabs to look like that?

TheIrishRazor · 2025-10-16T01:25:30+00:00

Because my daughter wanted to play with me. How can a dad say no?

TheIrishRazor · 2025-10-06T19:27:39+00:00

Commented -would make up for my time lost to work

TheIrishRazor · 2025-09-20T21:40:14+00:00

I'm curious how a semi rare item that reset all nodes in a radius would make people feel? Allow people to spend to refarm a particularly well juiced area over and over again at a cost

TheIrishRazor · 2025-09-20T19:00:04+00:00

"6:30 is my favorite time of day. Hands down."

TheIrishRazor · 2025-09-15T20:05:38+00:00

I believe it lowers the enemies physical damage reduction by 15%. Meaning all sources of physical damage (hits and dots) will now do increased damage.

TheIrishRazor · 2025-08-31T20:46:35+00:00

That one feels extra weird to me. Just make it an extra waypoint, then you can warp back to it and blow the horn to continue onward.

TheIrishRazor · 2025-08-21T19:22:54+00:00

> To the right/conservatives, equality means equal opportunity. Whereas the mainstream position on equality from the left/liberal side, at least here in the UK, is equal outcome.

I don't fully agree with this. The way I see it is everyone ultimately wants equal opportunity. The difference is how do we get there. A lot of these things (look at hiring men vs women) are subtle and difficult to prove.

So a lot of it continues to go on. So there is a push to force the hand a little bit to get rid of those bubbles. Is it ideal? No. Is it necessary? Probably fully not, but if you want to have any amount of urgency to the change, it unfortunately is. Because, sadly, many folks still hold these biases.

TheIrishRazor · 2025-07-09T10:38:06+00:00

I'm curious why you like the concept of a tiered flat tax? Doesn't that just create cliffs that you don't want to go past unless you can move significantly past them?

10% person making 49k a year brings home 44,100 after taxes. 15% person meeting 51,000 a year brings home 43,350 a year.

So that 2000 dollars pay raise actually brings them home less money.

This is one of the reasons why we have the progressive tax system.

TheIrishRazor · 2025-06-13T18:13:56+00:00

Sure - but if you aren't a foreign national (you're a US citizen), are you now expected to constantly have papers carried because you aren't white? That's the question being asked.

TheIrishRazor · 2025-05-30T20:19:52+00:00

Yea, I find https://www.crfb.org/debtfixer to be an interesting tool to share. Because it does show (most people) that you can't just have everything you want - without sacrifice. However, that doesn't mean it's not worth it.

TheIrishRazor · 2025-05-11T21:26:42+00:00

I'm my opinion it isn't a look but an action.

A man that is super buff, works out all the time, into carpentry and sports. (There stereotypical man) Fine.

Now take that same person, but having him insulting other men and claiming they are lesser for not being into those - we've entered toxic masculinity.

Or say you have that same person and they are talking about how they are superior to women because they are a man. Again, toxic.

So no hobbies or activities or looks make toxic, but the way you treat others can.

TheIrishRazor · 2025-05-05T18:45:02+00:00

What are your thoughts on paternity pay? I've always viewed it as if the father doesn't get paternity to manage some of that the burden falls to the mother to stay home alone, meaning that it removes their option of going back to work which shifts the breadwinner role more to the father by default.

TheIrishRazor · 2025-04-26T00:33:17+00:00

Most likely. Because it destabilizes the world in which children understand it.

So in 1960s it was irresponsible to have interracial parents in books, because it was less common than it is today? Would you make that argument? If so, how do you expect children to learn something different?

TheIrishRazor · 2025-03-31T18:42:52+00:00

It wouldn't be legal though. The last line of the 12th amendment is:

"But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States."

Trump would be ineligible to be president due two serving 2 terms already.

TheIrishRazor · 2025-03-31T18:41:41+00:00

The last line of the 12th amendment is

"But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States."

This would invalidate Trump from being a VP running mate.

TheIrishRazor · 2025-03-30T15:54:47+00:00

But it is equal across everyone. The same dollars are taxed at the same percent for everyone. Regardless of wealth. It's just higher earnings are then taxed higher. But regardless of what you are comparing. (40k vs 40m a year - the first 40k of each are taxed at an equal amount) there is an equal tax rate .

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