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Vin LoPresti's avatar

I just read in another MSM rag (The Guardian) that NASA just slammed a rocket into some asteroid to test the potential for deflecting the path of threats to earth from rogue heavenly bodies. It was accompanied by celebratory language by a spokesperson who opined that “all earthlings should sleep better.” This mentality — that we’re saved by exploding hi-tech crap — is exactly why we find ourselves stewing in this rubbish soup. We are such bloody babies, unable to cope with the reality that trying to protect ourselves from a low-probability event, while unable to do anything about the high-probability demise of the biosphere is the height of diversion denial. As is the idea that a nuclear war, any war for that matter, is "winnable."

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Feral Finster's avatar

Biden’s foreign policy can be summarized in one word: empire.

The same can be said for the NYT. The only question is how to protect and expand said empire.

As to how not escalating the empire's wars of aggression imperils America, as if Iran has readied its vast fleet of war canoes, ready to paddle out of the Straits of Hormuz and make landing on the Manhattan docks at the first sign of weakness, remains unsaid.

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