r/worldnews:

u/enderpanda

You elected a felon, so you have zero credibility when it comes to “rules”. Sorry.
u/enderpanda

I can see why you hide your history lol.
u/enderpanda

Same (and with Parkinson’s to boot), it’s an incredibly cruel death. Would not wish it on my worst enemy. What really sucks about it, for me, is I never got to see my dad “die”, it was just a years long slow torture that slowly took it’s tax out on my mom, and then one day he’s just gone. No proper goodbye, just watching the man who raised me slowly turn into a husk. When it was finally time we all felt nothing but relief for him finally being out of pain. My dad was a trooper, never complained for a moment about what a shit hand life dealt him. If he’d had the presence of mind at the end that he did at the beginning, I have absolutely no doubt that he would have chosen to save my mom the pain and medical bills.
u/xander707

Look at this bread! I was shocked to find out that the primitive cave people of Russia were able to cobble up oven-like contraptions and actually bake bread. They are just like us, maybe even better!
u/xander707

I agree with your premise and definitely a stupid move, but life in prison for such a thing is horrifically over the top.
u/xander707

Yes, very comparable to the modern day geopolitical landscape, how could I have forgotten. Russia, China, India etc must have just forgotten to launch their nukes at the US in retaliation.
u/xander707

The day a nation is able to use a nuke without retaliation is the day the world really goes into a downward spiral into shit. I also think its just not possible. If Russia used a nuke on non-NATO territory there may not be a nuclear retaliation, but certainly a severe and necessarily disproportionate conventional warfare response with the threat of nuclear escalation if Putin uses more nukes. MAD doesnt work if nukes become fair use, not to mention it would immediately spark very serious and probably actionable considerations of a nuclear preemptive strike. In the current state of things, no one is using nukes, so a preemptive strike doesnt make sense unless we had concrete evidence an adversary was preparing to launch their own. But once a nation shows the world they are willing to use nukes against their enemies, even non-NATO ones, the sense of urgency to plan and ultimately carry out a preemptive strike escalates exponentially. I think the moment Putin uses a nuke, nuclear war becomes near inevitable, which is hopefully why Putin hasnt used one despite many years of saber rattling and clearly struggling in this military operation gone wrong.
u/xander707

lol way to prove you didnt read the comment you are responding to.
u/xander707

Was there ever any doubt that Trump would completely capitulate to his master?
u/xander707

Whats worse is that as time goes on and technology further advances, we only discover more imaginative and effective ways to kill ourselves. Kinetic rod bombardments from space, or even crashing meteors into the planet, or developing precision nano machines that could target specific nationalities or other genetic markers for killing, are all in our eventual future as a species. We are not far enough removed from our relatively recent hunter/gatherer tribal nature to handle these technological advances, I fear.