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What is an event that changed how you view the world? (lemm.ee)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The problem here is that there will always be some uncertainty about how quickly he can acquire nuclear weapons. But we don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.

-Condi Rice

This was said by the National Security Advisor of the USA, the only country in the world that used nuclear weapons ... on civilian cities ... twice ... for no militarily objective reason.

Watching that shit unfold really got me into politics. Being disillusioned with Obama's 8 years got me into real political economic theory though.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

And then afterwards she went on to become an exec at... Dropbox? Like wtf.