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Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning?

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Re: Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning?

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Post by hakrgrl »

Waterluvian wrote: post #120

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Or machine gun defence when you're protecting tens of thousands of Iranians from the Islamist regime.

The difference is the US had bad intelligence and acknowledges it's a tragedy. The regime intentionally murders by the thousands and would murder more if it wasn't thwarted by the US and Israel. And somehow you're more upset about the former not the latter.

> Since the beginning of the 2025–2026 Iranian protests, the government of Iran has perpetrated widespread massacres of civilians, deploying both its own security forces and also imported foreign militias to suppress widespread public dissent across the country.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_massacres

Re: Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning?

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Post by whatsupdog »

hakrgrl wrote: post #130
nutjob2 wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sounds perfectly fine to me. Pro ICE is equated with supporting arbitrary execution of innocent people, who would support that in good conscience?

> Sounds perfectly fine to me. Pro ICE is equated with supporting arbitrary execution of innocent people That is a false equivalence, ignoring the countless criminals that have been removed from our neighborhoods. One of THOUSANDS of examples below. You want this guy as your neighbor, really? Kindness to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent. "Eduardo Temoxtle-Calihua, a criminal illegal alien from Mexico, convicted…

The downvotes prove that the hacker news hive mind doesn't care about facts.

Re: Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning?

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Post by hakrgrl »

nutjob2 wrote: post #156
hakrgrl wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Obama actually did this in 2016. https://www.cnn.com/2016/08/03/politics/us-sends-plane-iran-... > Washington CNN — The Obama administration secretly arranged a plane delivery of $400 million in cash on the same day Iran released four American prisoners and formally implemented the nuclear deal, US officials confirmed Wednesday.

And the bad faith keeps on rolling. We get it, you're a MAGA true believer, it's not like you're being subtle. But besides trying to troll the good people at HN, what is your point?

Was I not clear?

"I'm glad someone is finally doing something about it rather than sending palettes of cash on an jet to radical Muslims."

Point is you can mock Trump with your minesweeper game and jeer from the sidelines, but it's a better policy than sending bad guys money.

Re: Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning?

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Post by none2585 »

noduerme wrote: post #41
beloch wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It might not be. It might be. Uncertainty is the point of what Iran is doing. There might be mines in the straight that are sophisticated enough to be armed, disarmed, or moved on command, or there might not. There might be artillery emplacements* hidden and not found, ready to pop up... or there might not. There are probably still plenty of drones and missiles all over the country that can be called down on Hormuz a…

So what's left of the Iranian regime is basically like the Houthis now, reduced to getting world attention by committing random acts of piracy and firing at random ships off their coast. To make whatever point they were trying to make. Seems like a win to me. Declare victory, say the straight is open, just like the Red Sea is open. If anything moves at shipping, destroy its source. They don't have a right to attack m…

> They don't have a right to attack merchant vessels

This is a sovereign nation that is being attacked by a waning superpower. It's war and they are retaliating in really the only way that they can force America to back off - which is make the war really expensive and even more unpopular domestically.

Re: Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning?

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Post by hakrgrl »

zimpenfish wrote: post #157
hakrgrl wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Obama actually did this in 2016. https://www.cnn.com/2016/08/03/politics/us-sends-plane-iran-... > Washington CNN — The Obama administration secretly arranged a plane delivery of $400 million in cash on the same day Iran released four American prisoners and formally implemented the nuclear deal, US officials confirmed Wednesday.

Secretly-ish - it was announced publicly 7 months prior (Jan 2016) and it was the first instalment of a legal settlement, not just some random or ransom payment. Obviously Republicans decried it with bad faith bullshit because reality and sanity don't matter to them.

"reality and sanity"? The reality is the US gave them cash to improve their living standards and enrich their country, not their uranium.

With that money they chose to massacre their own people and fund terrorism across the region.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_massacres

Re: Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning?

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Post by lukan »

alexwebb2 wrote: post #123
galad87 wrote: post #11

It's missing the double click on a number feature from minesweeper.

It's still middle-click in my muscle memory from the Windows XP days! God, I used to be _really_ into Minesweeper. One of the earliest games I made back in college was a 3D Minesweeper cube. I remember being really proud of one little detail – the detection and automatic resolution of ambiguous clues that would require guessing, which always annoyed the heck out of me in every other version of Minesweeper.

Oh, me too. Do you have your game still available somewhere?

Re: Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning?

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Post by kakacik »

flyinglizard wrote: post #91
malfist wrote: post #88

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What part of "doing the right thing" is bombing an all girls school?

Do you think some evil military planners sat in the Pentagon, saw that school, said "let's shoot at it for shits and giggles" and pressed the button? Or are you trying to pollute a grown up conversation with sensationalism and punchy hooks? In reality someone made a mistake. It can happen. It should be investigated. It should not deter from achieving the military objectives.

Then somebody should be punished so severely that incidence would go down dramatically. I dont mean 2 weeks administrative leave (or medal and promotion), I mean lives ruined, names tarnished, and/or people executed/jailed for 20 lives for mass (in)voluntary manslaughter.

In reality, in same vein quite a few US laws are set. If you are not US passport holder you are subhuman. Less rights, less care, more disposable, just a garbage to step on. We saw it enough in past 80 years to see a clear pattern everywhere US went and (mostly) failed.

For those slow in back rows - this is how you get almost endless stream of new fanatical recruits to merry groups like isis or al-queda. Dumb, supremely dumb. Yeah, 'a mistake, it can happen'. Fuck that american self-entitled rotten racist mentality. Then you wonder why whole world hates you now and what you stand for and represent. What a success story for america in past year.

Re: Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning?

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Post by znort_ »

flyinglizard wrote: post #62
lukan wrote: post #48

Ok, I did win. Do I get cheaper gasoline now?

That's it? Momentary gasoline price is all that matters now? Not geopolitical interests, alliances, _Doing The Right Thing_? If that's the only angle you care about, then US subduing the Iranian regime would go a long way to de-facto dissolving OPEC and bring much more flexibility to oil prices.

good point. i'm more than happy to pay 10x for my diesel and electricity and even change my whole lifestyle for the foreseeable future in support of iran doing the right thing: kicking the murderous usrael regime out of western asia where it should never have been in the first place, if it weren't for their god damned blood soaked petrodollars.
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