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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #17380 on: 21/02/2021 02:27:33 »
And it will mean just one thing.

Extinction.

there won't be a dystopic society existing after a tipping.
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #17381 on: 21/02/2021 10:13:49 »
So what has Mr Trumps legacy left for President Biden?
War

When it comes to Taiwan China's point of view is that  " Beijing warned: “Those who play with fire will burn themselves, and ‘Taiwan independence’ means war.” "

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/21/tension-haunts-tiny-taiwanese-isles-that-live-in-fear-of-war-with-china

When it comes to Iran https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/feb/21/hawks-in-iran-and-israel-agree-bidens-bid-to-salvage-nuclear-deal-must-not-succeed

When it comes to Israel   https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/18/israel-nuclear-facility-dimona-weapons

and the whitewash of it in the form of limited nuclear wars now being acceptable. Also a legacy of USA and Mr Trump
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« Reply #17382 on: 21/02/2021 10:15:14 »
USA has very little to be proud of for the moment.
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« Reply #17383 on: 21/02/2021 10:18:48 »
Isn't it funny? Now we can play with nuclear missiles, but only a few of us. We still don't want others to join our playground.
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« Reply #17384 on: 21/02/2021 10:32:16 »
It's like I say, the game is the same all over the world, which becomes a reason for the type of people you leave to handle it. Also a reason for how we define game theory. Out of the worst qualities we present. It goes back to your ideals and beliefs, and to how people treat you.
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« Reply #17385 on: 21/02/2021 10:43:06 »
There is one weak light in the tunnel though. It doesn't seem as if Saudi Arabia will get their hands on nuclear technology, for the moment that is. But that can change, it was the French that gave it to Israel, and something similar can happen again. And you just need one bomb to set off a war.


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« Reply #17386 on: 21/02/2021 10:54:24 »
And here's Mr Trump, again.  https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-rush-limbaugh-florida-orlando-ron-desantis-173927d0d79d0e360814cca1db64cdcf
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« Reply #17387 on: 21/02/2021 11:05:26 »
looking at your representatives, is there really any reason for us to stay? The universe is infinite and I'm sure there exist saner species than us. The distances are also infinite so they can't advice us, and if they tried we would ignore it anyway.
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« Reply #17388 on: 21/02/2021 11:07:24 »
Ahh, well, unless they presented us with something better than a nuclear device. That we would take too us, to use.
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« Reply #17389 on: 21/02/2021 13:56:16 »
you don't believe me?
you should.

USA went ahead making the first ones, their scientists not even sure it wouldn't ignite the atmosphere. Then came Britain and France, and the USSR. Everyone spying and stealing from everyone. Then came Israel giving it away to South Africa's apartheid regime, going so far as testing their bombs together. And on the 'Eastern' side we had "  Abdul Qadeer Khan, who used them to found his country's enrichment programme and to set up a global nuclear smuggling business, selling the design to Libya, North Korea and Iran. "

And the only use they had for this technology was to make more bombs, better ones, that could take out a hundred thousand people at a time. That's why we don't have molten salt reactors.
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« Reply #17390 on: 21/02/2021 14:00:16 »
You want to call this sane?
I don't.

We spend billions, maybe trillions on the wrong type of infra structures. We also spend it on getting away from earth, a earth that those days are in a shamble. We won't get away from here though, and any 'space habitat' created will have to rely on this earth we're making go extinct.
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« Reply #17391 on: 21/02/2021 14:03:42 »
It's like bullies in the schoolyard, fighting for position.
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« Reply #17392 on: 21/02/2021 14:04:48 »
And it shows a extreme lack of knowledge, understanding and compassion. It's the worst traits in yourself coming to lead you.
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« Reply #17393 on: 21/02/2021 14:07:45 »
There is no trust to it. It's the opposite. It's where you expect your neighbor to want to kill you. USA and their weapon laws exemplify that on a individual scale. Canada used to exemplify the opposite. It's about your beliefs, the way you've been treated and the way others behave, it's also about empty ideals not meaning sh* in the age of nuclear proliferation.
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« Reply #17394 on: 21/02/2021 14:09:03 »
It's about rights that doesn't exist, except on paper. Your rights and everything else rights.
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« Reply #17395 on: 21/02/2021 14:10:20 »
You can be a super soldier, gene modified, obedient and trusting. Doesn't mean sh*
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« Reply #17396 on: 21/02/2021 14:11:47 »
It's a game for the selected few, and we expect them be able to see the difference between playing and it getting real.
You're pretty stupid, aren't you?
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« Reply #17397 on: 21/02/2021 14:24:45 »
There was this 'dream', about western superiority, exemplified by the attack on Libya and Khadaffi. A 'super polis' backed up by the best weapon technology in the world. It was a western dream, a sort of extension of 'the white mans game' in where we thought we could 'export' our ideals and beliefs by force.

It failed
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« Reply #17398 on: 21/02/2021 14:25:56 »
Like a bully in the schoolyard forcing you.
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« Reply #17399 on: 21/02/2021 14:28:08 »
But not all bullies believed in it. They too want to be the ones forcing you, although not with the same ideals and beliefs.
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