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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 applfanboysbgon »

brightball wrote: post #215
applfanboysbgon wrote: post #135

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Destroying a school is not an "oopsie". It should literally not be possible for it to happen in any organization that values human life at all. This was a precision strike with three missiles hitting the same target, they should have been goddamn sure they knew where the millions of dollars in ordnance they were launching for the purpose of ending human life were headed. Of course, the US military places zero value o…

Let’s have a serious conversation about downplaying things because this is where all of these conversations go sideways. Many people, myself included, watch very loud righteous indignation about this awful event…while hearing absolutely nothing from the same people about… - The Iranian women’s soccer team who are returning home from asylum to likely torture and execution due to regime threats against their families.…

The entire reason the current Iranian regime exists is because the US overthrew their democracy to replace it with a monarchy that was friendly to their oil interests, which was then overthrown by a popular revolution. Maybe the US should stay the fuck out of Iran because it's not the US's fucking business, and it is most certainly not acting benevolently out of desire to help the people of Iran.

> while hearing absolutely nothing from the same people about…

Also, really? You think anybody who opposes the US bombing a school is cheering on protestors being shot and all other crimes of the Iranian regime? Well, I guess I'll be the first: Iranian regime bad. Killing protestors bad. Executing dissenters bad. There you go. Your argument is defeated. You can no longer make that claim. But I reckon most people aren't couching their statements by bringing up the whudabbouts because first it's not the direct topic of the conversation, and second it's a fucking given. But it being a given that X is bad does not justify doing more bad things.

Re: Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning?

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Post by hakrgrl »

selimthegrim wrote: post #217
hakrgrl wrote: post #119

How about you make an app about "winning" that involves flying a cargo plane loaded with so much cash to Iranian Islamists that it struggles to stay aloft. Because that was the strategy before Trump and it led to terror tunnels, terror proxies, and weapons grade nuclear enrichment. Edit: For the record this actually happened 10 years ago under Obama. https://www.cnn.com/2016/08/03/politics/us-sends-plane-iran-... > W…

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I don't even know who that is

Re: Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning?

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Post by hakrgrl »

ib33 wrote: post #201
hakrgrl wrote: post #161

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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…

Why not remove sanctions so the civilians have less conflict with the regime? The protest and every death can also be blamed on those who cancelled the deal.

Ask your favorite LLM

Re: Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning?

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Post by Pay08 »

specproc wrote: post #47
justintiime wrote: post #35

Missing feature where you blanket nuke the whole area to destroy mines.

WHO is currently doing readiness for a nuclear attack in the region. This is America, the country willing to do the unconscionable when they're not winning fast enough. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...

WHO was also preparing for Covid turning people into zombies. It's their job to prepare for anything that has an above 0.5% chance of happening.

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Post by wsc981 »

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.

Seems in Libanon the IDF is currently targeting hospitals and first responders [0]. Sometimes people are just evil.

Regarding the USA-Iran war, the president of the USA has threatened to destroy essential infrastructure (e.g. electricity) if Iran doesn't surrender in 48 hours. Which, from my understanding, is a war crime. I think Trump is perfectly ok with bombing schools and hospitals.

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[0]: https://x.com/haaretzcom/status/2035545687006298392?s=20

Re: Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning?

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Post by 10xDev »

card_zero wrote: post #175
10xDev wrote: post #112

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A double tap strike as well. Definitely no mistake: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Minab_school_attack Edit: *triple tap.

I would like the Iranian regime to be destroyed more responsibly and carefully.

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Re: Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning?

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Post by Pay08 »

15155 wrote: post #218
fc417fc802 wrote: post #213

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No sir that's not a school we're proposing to bomb, it's a complex containing both a school and a vehicle maintenance facility. So it's mixed, meaning there's valid logistical reasons to attack it. Yes, hundreds of children will perish in the attack, but the action will also provide us with legitimate benefits. Just try not to think about the former and focus on the latter. I'm sure no one in the future will judge us…

So an automatic cheat code to win any and all conflicts is simply to put strategic assets in schools?

You'd be surprised how many people's "morality" boils down to that.

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Post by alexwebb2 »

lukan wrote: post #167
alexwebb2 wrote: post #123

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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?

Nah, this was 20 years ago or so! Would be fun to whip up a modern version though.

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Post by generic92034 »

adwn wrote: post #98
flyinglizard wrote: post #76

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Since WWII you're living under the umbrella of the US, as client states. There was no reason Europe could not amass a significant military power that would grant its sovereignty, but money went to increasing quality of life instead. Trump the 45th even implored EU to do so and bolster NATO.

> Since WWII […] Europe didn't slack off militarily during the Cold War. Germany, for example, poured massive amounts of money and resources into the Bundeswehr to be able to fend of the Soviets. The US relied as much on the European members of NATO as the Europeans did on the US. After the Cold War, both the US and Europe scaled back their military spending and enjoyed the peace dividend. It was only after 2001 that…

> They're really good at curb-stomping much weaker opponents, like [..] Iran

That remains to be seen, though. Really winning that war requires either lots of boots on the ground and a long occupation (where the outcome might still be like in Afghanistan) or using nukes, which could escalate quite badly for us all. There is a reason no other POTUS has attacked Iran before.

Of course Trump can at every point in time just declare victory and leave the mess to all others for cleaning up. That is the most likely outcome, IMHO.

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