13 Comments
User's avatar
Riff McClavin's avatar

I'm kind of at a loss for words. Everything you say is undoubtedly true. There don't seem to be any cooler heads prevailing at the moment, at least none in a position to make a difference.

Short of some dramatic civil disobedience, we're reduced to being fleas on a rabid dog, watching as the other democratic party is poised to take over in 2022, and they sound even more nationalistic and xenophobic, hard as that is to fathom.

It's just all so incredibly stupid.

Expand full comment
Chris's avatar

There’s no extinction rebellion against nuclear annihilation which is even more of an imminent threat than climate induced collapse.

Expand full comment
Riff McClavin's avatar

I imagine the dinosaurs just passively looked on as well, although they didn't have think thank Stegosauruses telling them how much they needed asteroids.

Expand full comment
Michael David Morrissey's avatar

We have just learned that Annalena Bärbock of the Greens will be the next German Foreign Minister. She is a US puppet, opposed to Nordstrom II and a Russophobe. This does not bode well. (The German Greens are not at all like the US Greens, having sold out long ago.)

Expand full comment
Riff McClavin's avatar

Oh boy! A THIRD sold-out party I can vote for. That's what we need here all right.

Expand full comment
Marcus Collins's avatar

Great analysis, very scary stuff

Expand full comment
JohnOnKaui's avatar

While not exactly on subject, but IMHO even scarier...

Opinion: Does the U.S. need a West Point for tech-savvy civil servants?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/25/united-states-academy-train-technology-civil-servants/

Expand full comment
Riff McClavin's avatar

Scarier than nuclear war?

Expand full comment
JohnOnKaui's avatar

IMHO yes.

Depends on what you value. I'm sure others will have a different opinion -- I emphasize opinion.

In a nuclear war, I expect to be dead. To misuse an old saying, "better dead than red", which one can interpret anyway they like -- including changing it to "better red than dead". Just opinions in this case.

Expand full comment
Riff McClavin's avatar

This isn't all about you, John. Lol In a nuclear war we're likely all dead, including my cat. Please think of Squitters if not the rest of us.

Expand full comment
JohnOnKaui's avatar

Let me delete and re-write:

I don't see all of humanity being wiped out by anything other than another asteroid. I might even survive nuclear war if I happen to be in the right place at the right time.

But a nation that is totally controlled, with no thoughts other than the approved thoughts, yep, that's scarier to me.

As I said, an opinion. So of course it is "all about me" that's what an opinion is.

Expand full comment
Riff McClavin's avatar

"I might even survive nuclear war if I happen to be in the right place at the right time." Knowing that so many share that opinion to me makes it scarier than a West Point for bureaucrats.

As far as living in a country with no thoughts but approved thoughts, looks like we're heading there regardless. Pretty bleak options, right?

Expand full comment
User's avatar
Comment deleted
Nov 27, 2021
Comment deleted
Expand full comment
Riff McClavin's avatar

On the positive side, those mushroom clouds will likely force people to look up from their smart phones. For a second, at least.

Expand full comment