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fandomsecrets2022-02-27 04:43 pm
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Re: How was your weekend?
(Anonymous) 2022-02-28 09:21 am (UTC)(link)Re: How was your weekend?
(Anonymous) 2022-02-28 06:18 pm (UTC)(link)It's definitely easy to go down that path of worry, I totally understand. I'm dating myself big time here, but I was an older teen during the height of the Cold War, and it felt very much the same as this-- all the big "what if"s, what leaders might turn out to be megalomaniacs who would punch the button just to get their way.
The important thing to remember is that it's just not how the global economy works. In the end, there's no politician that's actually insane enough to ruin the entire world because that means the end of their own power. Threats, yes, absolutely-- it's good to appear that you're ready to throw down, markets can and will bend to that. But it'll never actually be done.
I know it's scary. This shit kept me up nights the first time around, so I'm not about to shame anyone for being afraid and thinking about the worst case scenario. I just want to offer my perspective as someone that's been through it before.
Re: How was your weekend?
(Anonymous) 2022-02-28 09:39 pm (UTC)(link)"In the end, there's no politician that's actually insane enough to ruin the entire world because that means the end of their own power." I need to print that.
I remember, last year, my mother being so, so worried that Trump would throw a tantrum and blow the planet before he surrendered his spot to Biden, likening him to those entitled white males who murder their whole families when their wives threaten to leave them and take the kids away... only with more power. Next time we get scared again I'll remember that it didn't happen after all!