chimera wrote on Apr 1^st, 2026 at 7:22am:



It's in the Iranian constitution...the hope that the world will.be torched and the 12th iman will.take believers to paradise.
North Korea is a total cult and could become a death cult.
The Jews would launch in my opinion rather then lose.

The days of nuclear de escalation are over.

Ukraine gave up its nukes and its now u der great threat.

Pakistan has nukes as does India.

Donny didn't know when he became president that Britain had nukes.
Now that's because he's a naive wall St guy but it's kind of appalling.

I could see Australia deciding it needs a nuke.

In fact every country on earth probably has to think about it.

The odds that some dictator will find out his wife is having an affair and decide to end the eorld is real.
Add in the religious nutters and the old blokes like Trump who like to shake things up.


I am a pretty good risk assessor.

I agree with the experts
30 % chance in the next few years.

If you were told that you had to play Russian roulette with 2 bullets in the pistol, you would poop your pants.

I think most people are way too scared to face this enormous issue.

Like the crew on the titanic who really did re arrange the deck chairs, they just can't look at the sinking ship , so they concentrate on something they can control to ease their nerves.

Covid being an example
Climate being another.

They can't solve the big problem , so they find a silly problem to solve and work on that.

Worth studying

Carl D wrote on Mar 31^st, 2026 at 10:37pm:


AA's become a bit of a Debbie Downer. He was doing so well for a while there - running his three businesses, mentoring the youth, throwing a rope down to the chodes.

Something changed. What do you think did it?

aquascoot wrote on Mar 31^st, 2026 at 8:08pm:

You're not having a "difficult discussion", you're recycling manosphere talking points about anxiety and dressing them up as insight.

This whole "you're deflecting your anxiety" line isn't analysis, it's straight out of that playbook where any disagreement gets reframed as emotional weakness so you never actually have to defend your position. It's not clever, it's a rhetorical crutch.

What you're doing is textbook:
declare yourself "at peace", label everyone else as anxious, and pretend that makes your worldview more valid. It doesn't. It just means you've found a way to avoid scrutiny.

And then we get to the substance, or lack of it.

Calling Donald Trump an "Armageddon type" while simultaneously shrugging and saying you're fine with Armageddon isn't analysis, it's fatalism. You're not engaging with policy, strategy, or consequences, you're romanticising collapse because it absolves you from having to think about outcomes.

Same with Iran. Reducing a complex state actor to a "death cult" might feel satisfying, but it tells us nothing useful about incentives, geopolitics, or how to avoid escalation. It's just another way to simplify the world so your conclusion feels inevitable.

And that's really the through-line here.

You've decided catastrophe is unavoidable, so now everything gets filtered through that lens:

- disagreement becomes "anxiety"
- nuance becomes "denial"
- and recklessness becomes something to be "at peace with"

That's not realism, it's intellectual surrender.

Also worth pointing out, this obsession with labelling other men as "anxious" or "weak" is straight out of the manosphere ecosystem you keep dipping into. It's the same tired framework, masculinity measured by emotional suppression, disagreement reframed as insecurity, and complex issues reduced to who appears more "composed".

It's not insight, it's conditioning.

The irony is you're accusing others of avoiding difficult discussions while openly embracing the laziest possible conclusion:
"the world is doomed, so why bother interrogating anything properly?"

If you actually wanted a serious discussion, you'd be talking about:

- strategic consequences of US action in the Middle East
- energy markets and global stability
- nuclear deterrence and escalation risks

Instead, you're philosophising about Armageddon and calling it wisdom.

That's not depth. That's just giving up with extra steps.

Perhaps you should expand your study material outside of manosphere podcasts and facebook posts...

aquascoot wrote on Apr 1^st, 2026 at 12:20pm:


Oh, I see. You're just doing it for the kids, is it?

You'll probably want to cut off an arm or a leg, dear. Throw it to the son-in-law for a bit of a snack.

Here you go, Junior. Chow down on this. You might want to cook it first, particularly if little Miss Scoot's hungry.

She's a little fussy, that one. Always was a bit of a princess.

Your Armageddonist believes in self sacrifice, you see. He's always ready with a helping hand. Of course, he likes to provide a hand up, not a handout.

Or in your case, just a hand.

Miam miam, no?

Jasin wrote on Apr 1^st, 2026 at 2:40pm:


So your claim about this being TDS anti-Trump mainstream media reporting was shot down because it was reported on Fox News, you don't want to admit that, so you start trying to reframe the conversation to Trump attacking them, not what they reported, and now you want to derail it further to Cricket, sledging and questions over banning it?

How about staying on topic?

If Fox is reporting on it, and Trump is attacking them for it, does that mean that Fox News is now Lefty anti-Trump TDS media?

Or is it that the polling is actually reflective of the US population, and they disapprove of Trump in greater numbers than at any time he's been in office, the last time they were close to this bad, he lost the election, and this is a reality you cannot face?

Jasin wrote on Apr 1^st, 2026 at 3:04pm:


Right, so it is objectively true then that his approval and disapproval ratings are the worst they've ever been at the moment, even worse than what cost him the last election.

And dropping.

Thank you for finally admitting the truth.

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So you're saying Trump took no donations for his second term?

aqua is in the frame usually seen with hypnotism, where an event can be mentally twisted into the absolute opposite and accepted with conviction. Also in severe mental illness. Or elaborate trolling but who would bother that much?