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[–] danny@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The thing with nukes is that it’s suicide, and they know it. So they just use the threat of it to get whatever they want, in the hopes that the people in charge are like you and will just flop over to their demands whenever they dangle the threat.