@johnrobb "Where are the adults that got us through the Cold War without killing billions?...We're in the midst of a fight between an aggressive global network and an aggressive nuclear power that is upending the nuclear politics that have prevented Armageddon." @johnrobb
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Copy of tweet thread: John Robb What do you do if the west’s network becomes an accelerationist swarm? Escalate at all costs - full speed ahead! Pray for transcendent political intervention at the planetary level? More convinced than ever that if we had our current political elite and Twitter during the Cuban Missile Crisis, the world would have ended.
@johnrobb 'A brush with nuclear war.' Now there's a euphemism to end all euphemisms or, rather, the entirety of life on earth. You finding it a tad odd, these days, how manifestly blasé folk are, about thermonuclear war? What do they imagine? War as fiction? A pillow fight? Winning?
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