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This is a genuine question, I'm really curious. What if the kid typed something that implies "US is firing nukes to {insert random non-Western country}". What i
by gnulinux 6y ago
This is a genuine question, I'm really curious. What if the kid typed something that implies "US is firing nukes to {insert random non-Western country}". What is the probability of something like that escalating?
- taejo 6y agoIt wouldn't be completely unprecedented: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_begin_bombing_in_five_minutes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_begin_bombing_in_five_minut...
- gnulinux 6y agoI didn't know this but this so scandalous. I don't even understand what's funny about going through a potentially species-ending war.
- NovemberWhiskey 6y agoEscalating in a 'national security relevant' way? Basically none, I would think. Bear in mind we're talking about the same Twitter that only last year lost control of an administrator account resulting in a Bitcoin scam tweeted from one former U.S. President and one future one. It would be embarrassing, but yeah that's it.
- dylan604 6y agoBefore 2016, probably nothing would have happened. After 2016 when the Commander in Chief only communicated by tweet, then people probably look at tweets in a slightly different mindset