US Joe Biden News Megathread - The Other Biden Derangement Syndrome Thread (with a side order of Fauci Derangement Syndrome)

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Let's pretend for one moment that he does die before the election, just for the funsies. What happens then? Will the nomination revert to option number 2, aka Bernie Sanders? Or will his running mate automatically replace him just the way Vice-President is supposted to step in after the Big Man in the White House chokes on a piece of matzo? Does he even have a running mate yet?
 
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Vyse Inglebard said:
I guess she's......Yellen into the void about that capital plan, huh?
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god dammit carlos
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Car Won't Crank said:
I say WW2 pinup nose art was simply the primordial form to cute anime girls adorning planes and tanks.
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Goes back even further. Alphonse Mucha made the proto anime waifu to sell train tickets and cigarettes.
 

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Gehenna said:
To be clear, they aren't going forward with this. It's why it was proposed by a relative no-name person. Part of "throw everything at the wall, and see what sticks" is throwing bad ideas at the wall in the off chance that the negative reaction to it is less than the positive gained in some way.
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This still sounds like a terrible reason to do it. Throwing bad ideas at the wall is one thing, throwing "Maybe I'll just give one of my biggest internal opponents reason to believe I'd be happy killing them off entirely for peanuts" at the wall is another. Shit like this is how you get a backstabbing via Prime Delivery to your back door.

As I talk it out, this really is the prime incarnation of "Do it now and deal with the fallout later", huh.
 
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Hot Cup of Joe said:
Not to be a sperg but it wasn't thrown away. Orion propulsion required nuclear detonation to launch the 'bell' shaped craft in to space.

They did calculations during the project phase and realised that 100k people a year would die as the result of nuclear fallout from the project, based on the population of America in the 50's, using Orion as for only NASA related launches. If Orion had taken off, with the population of America today, you could be seeing north of 250k radiation-related deaths a year. Not to mention what the fallout would do to the planet, soil and live stock.
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Could it be safely done at some distance from the earth? Say a week or more time of normal flight?
 
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Kuritan Deplorable said:
This still sounds like a terrible reason to do it. Throwing bad ideas at the wall is one thing, throwing "Maybe I'll just give one of my biggest internal opponents reason to believe I'd be happy killing them off entirely for peanuts" at the wall is another. Shit like this is how you get a backstabbing via Prime Delivery to your back door.

As I talk it out, this really is the prime incarnation of "Do it now and deal with the fallout later", huh.
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Yes, to all of that. But it's not like the admin has options. You don't do this kind of approach to politicking if things are going as planned and you have a clear vision and options. You do this when you are incredibly desperate.
 
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Gehenna said:
Yes, to all of that. But it's not like the admin has options. You don't do this kind of approach to politicking if things are going as planned and you have a clear vision and options. You do this when you are incredibly desperate.
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I really like that you're here to drop mad knowledge, but occasionally, you depress the fuck out of me.
 
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Michael Wade said:
Could it be safely done at some distance from the earth? Say a week or more time of normal flight?
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At some arbitrary distance yes, but then you'd have to lift an immense amount of payload to orbit, hundreds of tons of it, necessitating multiple launches, orbital docking and reassembly, and if any of the fuel launches failed you just crashed hundreds of tons of nuclear bombs into the ocean, or worse. Then you had to hope that our, even now, extremely lacking orbital assembly skills would produce a spacecraft that wouldn't die under the stresses of the nuclear pulses, as the shock absorber system wasn't ever going to be perfect.

Even today, the heavy lift capacity alone isn't viable, nor reliable or tested enough. And it still doesn't solve the ancillary issues of what we'd really do if we get out there. Mars is one thing, but Mars is also within conventional distance, so its not worthwhile. And nobody really is hankering to put boots on Jupiters moons - They're a scientific interest, but we don't need to put humans onto them, not with modern robotics.

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I really like that you're here to drop mad knowledge, but occasionally, you depress the fuck out of me.
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I'm just trying to figure out why they've decided that business and social media are the agents they can fuck over the worst - You'd think the powers with money and control of the plebs opinions would be off the table to fuck with - Even if you win on paper, they'll ensure you die horribly in the fallout. Maybe its my observation bias, or maybe is just the things targeting business are always so blatantly retarded that they stand out so much more than the attacks on the other factions.
 
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Vyse Inglebard said:
I guess she's......Yellen into the void about that capital plan, huh?
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Try that, and I'll deport your brain out of your body, hijo de puta.

what the fuck am I doing with my life
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Now this. This is what KF is truly about. I'm so proud of you all.
 
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Kuritan Deplorable said:
At some arbitrary distance yes, but then you'd have to lift an immense amount of payload to orbit, hundreds of tons of it, necessitating multiple launches, orbital docking and reassembly, and if any of the fuel launches failed you just crashed hundreds of tons of nuclear bombs into the ocean, or worse. Then you had to hope that our, even now, extremely lacking orbital assembly skills would produce a spacecraft that wouldn't die under the stresses of the nuclear pulses, as the shock absorber system wasn't ever going to be perfect.

Even today, the heavy lift capacity alone isn't viable, nor reliable or tested enough. And it still doesn't solve the ancillary issues of what we'd really do if we get out there. Mars is one thing, but Mars is also within conventional distance, so its not worthwhile. And nobody really is hankering to put boots on Jupiters moons - They're a scientific interest, but we don't need to put humans onto them, not with modern robotics.


I'm just trying to figure out why they've decided that business and social media are the agents they can fuck over the worst - You'd think the powers with money and control of the plebs opinions would be off the table to fuck with - Even if you win on paper, they'll ensure you die horribly in the fallout. Maybe its my observation bias, or maybe is just the things targeting business are always so blatantly exceptional that they stand out so much more than the attacks on the other factions.
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It's about ease of attack. They can't attack the Progs because their main power source is their very rabid voters. This makes the Progs low in what they can do offensively but defensively are absolute kings. Basically unassailable.

The establishment wing is easier to attack, but the problem is that it's everywhere and has the most capacity for immediate retribution. It can hurt the admin, hurt it hard, and hurt it immediatly.

Big Tech though? It can't go Republican, any counteracts it does will necessarily have to have a delayed blow, and there is the -possibility- of eeking out a better position before the blow can come.
 
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Gehenna said:
It's about ease of attack. They can't attack the Progs because their main power source is their very rabid voters. This makes the Progs low in what they can do offensively but defensively are absolute kings. Basically unassailable.

The establishment wing is easier to attack, but the problem is that it's everywhere and has the most capacity for immediate retribution. It can hurt the admin, hurt it hard, and hurt it immediatly.

Big Tech though? It can't go Republican, any counteracts it does will necessarily have to have a delayed blow, and there is the -possibility- of eeking out a better position before the blow can come.
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Maybe Big Tech shouldn't have taken one side in the first place.
 
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