The amount of comments online I’m seeing just demanding escalation with a global nuclear power is baffling. Nuclear Armageddon isn’t a matter of “bluffing”, no one here wants to end the fucking world. But we still have the big red button to take part in the threat just like Russia does! Yeah, MAD is fucking insane. The problem isn’t even that Putin suddenly decides to end the world because he says “fuck it, I didn’t like waking up this morning anyways”, it’s turning all the switches to allow flexibility for a “response” to occur. And then you just need some slip up somewhere, some high nerves, some bad information to suddenly get a sweaty scared human somewhere 5 minutes to either say “yeah, end the world” or not.

Sorry for the anxious rant, I’m just like are so many people really so eager to kill billions over THIS? How the fuck did this happen?

  • Glass [he/him,they/them]
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    3 years ago

    I'm leaning more on the sublimation angle. A ton of people living under captialism just want to die, but are also rendered incapable of perceiving the source of their alienation.

    • mark213686123 [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      no they want the end of capitalism but can't percieve it happening anyway other than nuclear war. Under warmongering propaganda and capitalist realism we are all posadists

      • UlyssesT
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        24 days ago

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        • mark213686123 [none/use name]
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          3 years ago

          I was talking to someone who wanted nuclear holocaust as humans are bad for the environment and I could just sense that he was actually worried about capitalisms effect on the environment but couldn't conceptualise an alternative other than apocalypse.

          Also a big part of that fantasy is reclaiming the homestead dream that was destroyed as the frontier ran out and capitalism evicted the farmers. If you look at it a big part of it is owning their own means of production