Politicians and Government Cringe Thread

[Zachowon]

That's... not exactly reassuring.

I know pretty much everyone is ignorant about 99.99 percent of things, but I'd think that an intelligence person would know their history, geography, and geopolitics far better than the average American. National security depends on them having an IQ above room temperature, doesn't it?

I know plenty that dont know Geography but great at other things.
That is just how it is....
We are normal people

 

[Zyobot]

I know plenty that dont know Geography but great at other things.
That is just how it is....
We are normal people

Uncle Sam’s not paying for you to be “normal people”, though.

Apart from that, there’s at least a few gullible Dum Dums who will uncritically retweet those Twitter posts, without bothering to fact-check. “The intelligence guys said so!” may be a fallacious appeal to authority, but that won’t stop idiots and the intellectually lazy from falling for it.

 

[Floridaman]

This is your “intelligence” community, America. Guys who think Chernobyl is still operational.

I mean there were several reactors there and some were still used after the incident but I think the last was retired several years ago.

 

[bintananth]

I mean there were several reactors there and some were still used after the incident but I think the last was retired several years ago.

The last one was shut down in December, 2000. The other two were taken offline in 1996 and 1991.

The RBMK-1000 wasn't a bad reactor design and there are 8 of them still in service.

EDIT: Chernobyl can be chalked up to "if it can go wrong, it will" and *cough* "operator error" *cough*. The guys in charge of the plant that day basically did everything wrong.

 

[Sobek]

A good metaphor for Chernobyl was it was a shitty car with bad steering and breaks, and a reckless driver on the wheel.

 

[Bacle]

Chernobyl is going to be a problem again now, because a Russian shell hit one of the waste repositories.

 

[Floridaman]

Chernobyl is going to be a problem again now, because a Russian shell hit one of the waste repositories.

Waste repository or the sarcophagus?

 

[Bacle]

Waste repository or the sarcophagus?

Repository, not the sarcophagus itself.

 

[Floridaman]

Repository, not the sarcophagus itself.

Then not good, but not terrible, the repositories are either spent fuel or contaminated objects. They can be put in other storage units. If the sarcophagus was destroyed that would be bad

 

[Bacle]

Then not good, but not terrible, the repositories are either spent fuel or contaminated objects. They can be put in other storage units. If the sarcophagus was destroyed that would be bad

In the middle of an active warzone?

This is just the first accident in the area. Till the fighting is actually done, it can still be a combat zone, and even afterwards now Chernobyl has an UXO problem now as well.

There is a frighteningly real possibility of ground water contamination now, and if that happens...a lot of the sacrifices of the Liquidators and Miners will have been in vain.

 

[bintananth]

A good metaphor for Chernobyl was it was a shitty car with bad steering and breaks, and a reckless driver on the wheel.

It was the reckless driver that was the problem. A shitty car can get you from point A to point B if you know what you're doing and I know that an '80s Honda Civic with a 1.3L engine and a whopping 76hp is capable of pulling a pickup truck out of a ditch.

That's been done at least once.

 

[SchrodingersWehraboo]

 

[Sobek]

 

[Carrot of Truth]

Thats is the cringiest thing I have seen in awhile

 

[The Whispering Monk]

Actually, that honor goes to Trudummy in Canada.

 

[PsihoKekec]

Since the TIE Fighter I knew who I stand with

 

[PsihoKekec]

Politicians getting fooled by memes

 

[The Whispering Monk]

I'm obviously missing the meme b/c I don't know who the guy is, but I could at least tell it was fake!

 

[PsihoKekec]

It's Sam Hyde and he keeps getting away with it

Sam Hyde

 

[SchrodingersWehraboo]