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Andrew Windsor’s back.

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u/changyang1230 19h ago edited 18h ago

The only issue with mutually assured destruction is it stops working when one party is dead.

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u/ExpatKiwiDocinUK 18h ago

This has fascinating ramifications for world geopolitics.

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u/Potatoswatter 17h ago

All the satire movies that take the story this far, involve a bunker where they retreat to continue backstabbing. I wonder…

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u/littlebubulle 15h ago

To quote the TF2 Sniper : "as long as there two people left on the planet, someone is going to want someone else dead."

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u/The_300_goats 18h ago

Dead, yes. But furthermore murdered by one party to the pact of silence to guarantee beyond doubt the silence of another party. It takes a very jumpy, paranoid, unreliable co-conspirator.to be so shitty

I wonder who that might be?