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> it's all a sideshow to me, aside from the crazy tariffs and nuclear threat parts, etc.

So it’s all a sideshow to you, apart from the threats to your life and way of living? Those seem kind of important to wave off.

I’m also not American, but I have no illusions that what happens there won’t have consequences for the rest of the world.



> the threats to your life and way of living?

minor at best given my age, location, and general setup.

I was probably in more danger in Rajasthan on 11 May 1998 when India suprise detonated three nukes within our visual horizon and impounded our aircraft on landing.

Risk is relative.

My father is down the hall watching TV ATM, he was born in 1935 and caught rabbits and such to feed his younger borothers and sisters when his father went off to WWII, Singapore fell amd trade in and out of the state ceased for a few years.


Don’t you think that’s selfish? I don’t live in most countries of the world (obviously) but I can still empathise with fellow human beings struggling elsewhere in this globalised planet. I don’t believe other problems are unimportant because they don’t directly apply to me.

Considering all the environmental protections being rolled back, you and your family will be affected sooner than you think.


> Don’t you think that’s selfish?

What, specifically?

> but I can still empathise with fellow human beings struggling elsewhere in this globalised planet.

Good for you. What makes you think I can't?

> Considering all the environmental protections being rolled back

in the US?

> you and your family will be affected sooner than you think.

You're a few generations late to the game for that now.




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