How do you think Americans will react if USA drops a Nuke on Iran?

USA: half "serves them right", half "oh shit"

rest of the continent: "oh shit"

I don't think Americans will react to anything unless it happens on their own soil for a change.

There would be mass panic at the imminent nuclear crisis. Borders probably shut down.

I think some people will protest and I think some people won't care and some will cheer for it and every reaction in between

Personally I would at that point be making a trip to the capital because the Orange fucker will have placed not just Iranians, not just American citizens, but all human life on earth at risk.

Keep in mind that other nations like Russia and China would have less than 5 minutes to react to an intercontinental missile heading vaguely in their direction, they could choose to retaliate and mutually ensure destruction.

Not a damn thing. Our population has no balls to stand up to oppression. We ARE the oppression.

I think about 30% of the population would be exhilarated and rally around a false sense of righteous power. About 60% would be absolutely aghast and would make a lot of noise for a few weeks. Then they’d gradually settle into the comfort of being indignant without actually changing anything. After a while the American people would continue doing the same thing they’ve done for the last eight decades: inflicting violence on everyone for the enrichment of a few privileged oligarchs.

Blue States: Horror, protest in streets on the opposite side of the country in places Trump already knows are against him.

Red States: "Fuck yeah! About damn time!" (Proceeds to pay $17/gallon for gas to 'own the libs'.)

American's reactions will range from despair to triumph. Most of them feel sad about it at the minimum. But I think they will be mainly responding to the state of affairs, after all a nuke just reflects the extreme voices currently in power in the US.

I personally will grieve the world before the new nuke dropped. I would be scared of escalation and I would probably also get more radical in my beliefs. I would probably find fairly radical activist groups and join them and try to supply them with my time and knowledge as much as possible.

Basically a nuke will change my methods. I will basically look at the current geopolitics as beyond repair and I will try my best to make my voice heard forcefully, so we can role the dice and hope for better leaders. Maybe I will have to donate my freedom.

But until that part of me dies that still hopes we can get there with our current system, I will be a holdout and just make my vote count.

Pssst, murica already lost the war with Iran,

grotesquely apathetic, actually

Americans will wait to be told how to react. The public gave up rational thought a long time ago.

Many will deny it happened at all. Many will claim false flag. Most will metabolize their fear and horror into patriotism and insist that Iran gave them no choice.

My reaction, as a Canadian, would be "I hope we've been secretly preparing what's needed for a nuclear program of our own because we need our own nukes immediately now. America's collapse is progressing way faster and harder than I expected."

People will buy a lot of toilet paper

I think that would necessitate the abandonment of the so-called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men are concerned. It'd be naive of us, to imagine that these new developments would cause a change in Soviet expansionist policy. I mean, we must be increasingly on the alert to prevent them taking over other mine shafts space, in order to breed more prodigiously than we do. Thus, knocking us out of these superior numbers when we emerge! Mr. President, we must not allow a mine-shaft gap!

I might depend on size and where.

If it's smaller than the ones used on Japan and not in Tehran, there will be less protest than if it was a megaton bomb used on Tehran.

Much sadness, some attempts to justify, and some cheering.

The other nuclear-armed countries will feel validated that they have nukes.

Then maybe some amazement when Iranian drone strikes on American ships continue.

They'd vote Trump in for a third term.

The night he was threatening to do it, I had a plan. It probably wasn't a healthy plan. I was going to listen to the news coverage, smoke a joint, and pig out.

Most Americans will do the same, cope however they can while watching in helpless terror.

They'll make it all about them.

Very negatively

Some with a brain left will protest.

China won't like it very much.

They might finally be able to point to Iran on a map. Might

As someone who lives relatively close to the Oak Ridge National Laboratories, I would be preparing to kiss my ass goodbye.

I cannot predict their behavior because they behave outside of reason

Seek cover.

The four Americans with souls and morals would feel awful, the two Americans with that but also with a modicum of knowledge in American history would feel awful but not surprised... and the rest would either feel like they deserve it ("might makes right" and the law of the jungle are the core tenets of Western civilization, nvm Anglo-Saxon settler pillager civ.) or pretend like they care because morality is decorative signaling for them.

Schumer will write a strongly worded memo complaining that it was just one nuke and not 50, and that the US must send monetary aid to Israel because they might get some radiation from our nukes. And, some rallies will be held in which ICE beats protesters en masse and kills a few. Same as always.

I don’t watch any news, wfh, and have little contact or Conversation. I probably Wouldn’t know for a few days

Dropping a nuclear bomb is essentially a world ending event at this point. Pakistan shares a border with Iran, they have nukes. China and Russia also have nukes.

I think the immediate reaction in the US will be of disgust and fear. I think most MAGA people would be against dropping a nuke.

There will be another toilet paper shortage, I can tell you that much