6 states siding against a supreme court decision to deny access to federal authorities seems big, if thats happened in my lifetime I've not heard of it before

  • SeventyTwoTrillion [he/him]
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    10 months ago

    Wrong about the beginning of events, but correct about their trajectory once they have begun

    But often only because we go "No, that won't happen, that would be stupid and counterproductive for the West" but then they just do the thing anyway and so we just go "...okay, well, they're gonna lose then"

    • Egon
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      3 months ago

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      • Sephitard9001 [he/him]
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        10 months ago

        It was a Thatcher bombing situation. The libs crying wolf about Russia only have to get lucky once, we have to get lucky every single time. They like to forget that they were howling about an imminent Russian invasion for months and even US analysts no longer considered it plausible. And then it happened.

      • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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        10 months ago

        i mean the specific miscalculation was basically not accounting for the Putin government having any motivations beyond the national interest of Russia.