Such insanity. We could spend days writing about all the ways in which this is wrong, even if you start with the premise that nuking the cities is morally acceptable.

  • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    If all the cities get nuked and trade breaks down, how long with the rural supply of antibiotics and other basic medicines last?

    I wonder if Mr Gung-ho Rural Redditor can even survive without insulin.

    • Lovely_sombrero [he/him]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      Everything, even lots of final food processing and fertilizer manufacturing happens in the cities, even the stuff that those people associate with rural US can't function without the cities. Who will build farming machinery?

      And this is ignoring the fact that the water supply would likely be poisonous if lots of cities are taken out.

      • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        And this is ignoring the fact that the water supply would likely be poisonous if lots of cities are taken out.

        Wonder if they'll die from the poisoned water before they die from the huge radioactive ash cloud blotting out the sun.