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You know, I wouldn't be surprised if, ten years from now, someone does some serious documentary research and discovers that the whole Stanislav Petrov false alarm incident was way more complicated than everyone thinks, or straight up didn't happen.
At the same time, I wholeheartedly believe it happened.
If that sounds like a contradiction, well, you have to strike a balance between the credulous Redditor dork and the obnoxious Bill Burrian conspiracy theorist. The duality of man.
I mean there's the plain question of whether "if you knew and believed nukes were inbound to your country and were in charge of the counterstrike would you do so"? MAD relies on the answer to that being yes but I wouldn't be surprised if for a significant portion of any population such would be viewed as nothing more than petty revenge. It's GG for you and yours anyway, blowing everything up on the other side works as part of nuclear warfare simulations but what does it actually achieve for you?
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It is neither my intention to dwell too long on my own praise, which I know would be distasteful to the reader, nor have I the purpose of censuring other historians, as Anaximenes and Theopompus1 did in the prefaces to their histories...
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i'm his great great grand daughter AMA
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What's it like knowing grandpa was a kitty?
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Boxers or briefs?
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thongs because i'm a GIRL, chud
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RIP yore inbox
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Hey bby
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You wear clothes?
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Do you wanna see my missile?
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there were no missiles so you much be another foid. let's lez out with each other
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I identify as a lesbian now so that's fine by me
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how does it feel to be descended from a traitor... life could've been so much fun
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What's your phone number?
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My favorite thing to do is to tell people that nothing ever happens.
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God I fricking love that meme.
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I fricking hate it
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Do you trust the computer and the soyence?
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You know, I wouldn't be surprised if, ten years from now, someone does some serious documentary research and discovers that the whole Stanislav Petrov false alarm incident was way more complicated than everyone thinks, or straight up didn't happen.
At the same time, I wholeheartedly believe it happened.
If that sounds like a contradiction, well, you have to strike a balance between the credulous Redditor dork and the obnoxious Bill Burrian conspiracy theorist. The duality of man.
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I mean there's the plain question of whether "if you knew and believed nukes were inbound to your country and were in charge of the counterstrike would you do so"? MAD relies on the answer to that being yes but I wouldn't be surprised if for a significant portion of any population such would be viewed as nothing more than petty revenge. It's GG for you and yours anyway, blowing everything up on the other side works as part of nuclear warfare simulations but what does it actually achieve for you?
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If someone's gonna kill you and your family then obv you're inclined to do """petty""" revenge.
Nukes wouldn't kill that many either, though if your family lives in capital yea they're fricked
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If those mfers killed my kids I'd want every last one of them glassed
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It is neither my intention to dwell too long on my own praise, which I know would be distasteful to the reader, nor have I the purpose of censuring other historians, as Anaximenes and Theopompus1 did in the prefaces to their histories...
-- Dionysius of Halicarnassus
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