We're (n America) seem to be heading straight toward WW3, and people have too many other (internet) things to concern themselves with to say anything about it. People drew lines in the sand 4 or 5 years ago now to prevent them from saying anything about what's presently happening.
I think the same thing. I was thinking how weird it is that there doesn’t seem to be much of an anti-war effort. You’d think there would be huge protests all over the place, but I guess everyone is just on board for how things are progressing.
I feel like we are
so thoroughly propagandized and sedated (in ways we probably can’t imagine) that people are somehow able to casually shrug off being the closest to nuclear armageddon since the Cuban missile crisis. It’s actually pretty fucking impressive.
I’d also partially attribute it to the fact that the people of the generation(s) that were around for Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the more tense moments of the cold war are dying off and are replaced with a generation for whom all that is just some shit that happened a long time ago, and certainly nothing to worry about nowadays.
It was so disheartening and alarming when that little group of senators put together that extremely tepid suggestion that we might consider pushing for a diplomatic end to the war and got ripped so hard (by both democrats and republicans) that within a few hours they renounced everything they said in the letter and blamed it on their staff for releasing it without their knowledge. Are dissenting opinions just a no-go anymore?
Every time I see Biden get completely lost trying to walk away from a podium, trying to shake someone’s hand that doesn’t exist or does that creepy whisper-into-the-mic thing, I just can’t believe that this is (supposedly) the dude in charge. His brain is turning into a ball of wet newspaper before our eyes.
Could you imagine if he were the president during the Cuban missile crisis instead of JFK? We’d be fucked.
I guess one good thing is that if a global nuclear war happens, at least we won’t have to wonder what it would be like. And if you somehow survive the blasts and radiation, you could get the chance to assemble a tribe of fellow disfigured survivors to live in the sewers battling and enslaving rival sewer tribes, eating crickets and drinking irradiated rats milk. Could be kinda cool.