April 3rd, 2024
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Nuclear warfare is just another branch of the instant gratification trend
For most of human history, wars have been long and tough. Each victory had to be earned on the field through hard work and superior troop coordination. And each of those battles were just building blocks in the grand scheme of an entire war. So when you won a war and changed the course of history, you knew that you had truly earned it through years of blood, sweat, tears, and many brave lives.
Yet, just like we built iPhones to bring us instant gratification in the form of Instagram likes in the place of earned self-satisfaction, we had to build something that would replace earned warfare: nuclear weapons. Now we can conquer entire civilizations with literally the click of a button. The Hundred Years War would be the One Minute “War” today.
I do not envy the future historians who are going to have to read about the 21st century, when all humans did was click different buttons that gave them quick dopamine rushes. One button gets you a video of a monkey playing the saxophone, one ends life for millions.
We are a disgraceful lot.
April 3rd, 2024
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MrGritty17
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fuck-illinois1621
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action__andy
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Maverekt
For the people wanting to know the post when it gets deleted:
For most of human history, wars have been long and tough. Each victory had to be earned on the field through hard work and superior troop coordination. And each of those battles were just building blocks in the grand scheme of an entire war. So when you won a war and changed the course of history, you knew that you had truly earned it through years of blood, sweat, tears, and many brave lives.
Yet, just like we built iPhones to bring us instant gratification in the form of Instagram likes in the place of earned self-satisfaction, we had to build something that would replace earned warfare: nuclear weapons. Now we can conquer entire civilizations with literally the click of a button. The Hundred Years War would be the One Minute “War” today.
I do not envy the future historians who are going to have to read about the 21st century, when all humans did was click different buttons that gave them quick dopamine rushes. One button gets you a video of a monkey playing the saxophone, one ends life for millions.
We are a disgraceful lot.
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No-Attention9838
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UPBOAT_FORTRESS_2
For most of human history, wars have been long and tough. Each victory had to be earned on the field through hard work and superior troop coordination. And each of those battles were just building blocks in the grand scheme of an entire war. So when you won a war and changed the course of history, you knew that you had truly earned it through years of blood, sweat, tears, and many brave lives.
Yet, just like we built the printing press to bring instant gratification in the form of the written word in the place of earned oral tradition, we had to build something that would replace earned warfare: firearms. Now we can conquer entire civilizations with literally the twitch of a finger. The Punic Wars would be the Puny "War" today
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Significant-Ant-2487
We built nuclear weapons “just like” we built iPhones? They’re part of the same trend? Talk about a failed analogy! First of all, there’s over half a century separating the two. Also… no, it’s so absurd it’s not worth discussing.
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KumaraDosha
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NotMonsterii
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actualaccountithink
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Purple-Activity-194
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SomePersonAtReddit
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phooonix
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Paul6334
Me telling a soldier in the 19th century anticipating the rollout of a breechloading rifle to the infantry that the instant gratification of sliding a bullet into the chamber is disgraceful and he needs the struggle to ram a bullet and charge down the muzzle of his gun while his opponents fire five bullets at him for every shot he gets in reply.
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Deathaster
Girl, OP is trolling hard and you all fell for it lol
Report em
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PreviousComedian4263
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YEETAWAYLOL
But the honor!!!1!
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makeItSoAlready
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[deleted]
Let’s think about the goals of war. Perhaps you would use a Nuke in times of desperation but from a strategic perspective, it would be stupid to say, Nuke a country if you want to invade it.
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thebohemiancowboy
Comments disagree with this mf and yet he has zero upvotes.
This sub has gone to shit.
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Probably because a lot of us remember the "lack of knowledge" rule where a complete fuckwad idiotic take like this would be removed. We're not supporting people posting something stupid because they want upvotes
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