Soldato
Poll: Poll: UK General Election 2017 - Mk II
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I'm glad you mentioned Japan.
When the US nuked Japan, it was the only power in the world with nuclear weapons.
Do you think the situation today is any way comparable? How many nuclear powers do we have today, many of whom are *not* allied with us?
well lots... your statement is still dubious - suppose we nuked North Korea taking out their few launchers in the process... how are they going to now nuke us back?
Soldato
Ireland may ostensibly have a 12.5% tax rate, but Apple pays 0.005% corporation tax.
It is a race to the bottom.
Ireland have effectively scrapped corporation tax in order to attract the worst kind of businesses (like Apple) to their shores. Should we do that?
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Im not a military expert but i doubt they park them all in the same place at once.
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And how do you think China would respond when we nuke their next door neighbour? or our own allies a few miles over the board in South Korea, Japan probably wouldn't be too pleased to get another waft of fallout
I doubt they've got many and they require the means to deliver them too...
Soldato
I'm sure those people working for those companies (and paying tax) arent complaining their government attracted lots of skilled jobs. What you lose in one hand you gain in another
And how do you think Russia, China, Iran, Pakistan will view us if we first-strike NK? How will other countries react?
Sure, but that is besides the point - how would say the US respond to California being nuked or the UK to us being nuked....
Soldato
They should have done but I doubt the audience are intelligent enough to present an engaging and thoughtful enough question? I heard May say that she wanted to treat mental illness in exactly the same way as physical illnesses and yet nobody asked her why it was the Government were discriminating between the two when it came to Personal Independence Payment applications (if this were the case)?
Soldato
oh dear............
japan was nuked with 2 nukes one of yield 13-18 kt TNT and the othe 20 kt TNT
the W88 warhead in a trident II missile have a yield of 475 kt TNT yields, and there can be up to 8 of them in a single missile, it's a completely different ball park.
same answer as above - should we just sit there and be nuked ourselves then?
somewhat missing the point - which was in reference to a first strike causing us to be wiped out too
dropping a bigger bomb still doesn't mean we necessarily get any incoming in return... rather it lowers the odds of that
Don't forget countries with invisible nuclear wmds and unknown unknowns, here's guessing none of those are anywhere without oil/resources.
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We better nuke everyone just in case.
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What they earn though having 4,000 citizens employed is approx 1/40th of what they should earn in corporation tax.
It's not apples to oranges. The Irish government would actually be far far better off paying the wages of those people themselves and getting all the corporation tax they are owed.
Soldato
very true...
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Let's nuke them first and then nuke all the countries we think would nuke us in retaliation, fantastic future and a new fallout game to look forward to.
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