Our silver lining lies in the fact that he is subject to physical reality; that any circumstances dire enough to overcome his will to deny his limitations up to and including his own mortality are also going to limit his ability to do things.
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There is still a lot of room for people around him to say "sir, let me take care of that for you, let me make that happen" and enable a lot of atrocities, but the full range of what Trump *would* do for a final act, his response to a world that will no longer abide his presence... it beggars belief.
aug 31, 2025, 3:23 pm • 48 0 • view
I tell myself there is no way he actually paid enough attention to the protocol for ordering a nuclear strike because he assumed someone would just do it if he told them to, and I tell myself that no one is going to fudge this of all things or help him make it happen as a final number.
aug 31, 2025, 3:30 pm • 45 0 • view
I used to know the way it's supposed to work and reasons it should be possible, but I don't know the ground situation or what corners might have been quietly cut in the name of nuclear readiness when Mr. Sole Launch Authority needs everything in three bullet points.
aug 31, 2025, 3:34 pm • 39 1 • view
TL;DR - if I should pray that he might pass quickly and quietly in his sleep, it would be a prayer for mercy. Just not for him. Or not just for him. One small mercy for a man who has none, one great mercy for the world.
aug 31, 2025, 3:39 pm • 60 3 • view
Sorry for the doomposting. This kept me up last night, and I have been trying to make up lost sleep, but it was keeping me up this morning so I had to let it out.
aug 31, 2025, 3:40 pm • 44 0 • view
I think about this more than I’d like and have noted that it’s not really a thing people discuss and I feel like that’s at least in part because it is such a catastrophic level of tail risk that people feel like there’s not much point when there’s so much else to be upset about
aug 31, 2025, 3:38 pm • 7 0 • view
I also think that there's a small but very real risk in having these discussions publicly and widely, because most of his actions are influenced by social media, so if the right picked up on our fears and started turning it into Discourse it could get onto his radar in a way it might otherwise not
aug 31, 2025, 3:41 pm • 5 0 • view
Yeah, also super true
aug 31, 2025, 3:42 pm • 4 0 • view
What I also hope is that other countries have been discussing this and have decided not to retaliate to a civilization-imperiling level given that this would be the dumbest reason to imperil human civilization
aug 31, 2025, 3:39 pm • 1 0 • view