doomsday rant
When I was a kid, we all knew how the world was going to end. The Sovs would attack the Fulda Gap probably, we of course would dispatch hundreds of BMPs, BTRs and T74s with our way better M1s, Sov tactical doctrine was more apt to set off nukes and send troops through the resulting opening, and that’d start off a larger exchange. We lived off base but close enough I would be dust early on. Btw, you notice how the Soviets, not us, were always phrased as the side which would start it.
doomsday rant
This despite how our President was this ancient asshole already proven just FINE with having thousands of deaths on his hands. Anyway.
Now I’m old and like most of what I was told as a kid, that was total bullshit. Instead extinction looms due to stuff well underway in the 80s. We have our choice of apocalypses, none of which THE SAME FUCKING PEOPLE who were in charge in the 80s acknowledge cause it’s money for the cronies. I have no clue how survival isn’t viewed as valuable, but.
doomsday rant
@Leucrotta It didn't hang over my head as much, but I grew up in a town which has a national laboratory. It does high energy physics, lasers, and supercomputing--and also helped run numbers for nuclear bomb design.
Once I was aware of the cold war, I knew it was likely to be a target, if the nukes starting dropping.
Of course now I'm in Seattle, and about 1/4th of the nation's entire nuclear arsenal is at a base 20 miles away. :-/
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@emanate in retrospect people make money from upgrading, selling and dismantling nukes, not from an actual war. So as an apocalypse it’s a lot less likely than peak oil, catastrophic climate change, the extinction of insects, whatever is about rich fucks making bank.
Of course I still do feel there’s some danger of 45 setting off a nuke since that’s the sort of BIG MAN MAKING TOUGH DECISIONS that appeals to his ego and cultists.
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@Leucrotta Yeah, there's definitely that worry, too. :-/