• Mossy Feathers (They/Them)@pawb.social
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    9 months ago

    The only way I think we could honestly do worse is if we built gas chambers or nuked them. I’m sure the US government will find a new way to fuck it up though.

    • flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz
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      9 months ago

      I’m expecting them to support a new “legitimate” government which will turn out to be worse than ISIL and join up with aliens to commit a multidimensional extermination of humans.

      • Mossy Feathers (They/Them)@pawb.social
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        9 months ago

        The Monkey’s Paw curls. First contact is with an alien race with technology beyond our wildest dreams and the ability to solve all our problems. However, it turns out they were the inspiration for Christianity and due to a very crucial passage of the Bible describing a ritual to be registered in their database of “saved souls” having been lost to time, no one is saved.

    • kersploosh@sh.itjust.works
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      9 months ago

      If the US can become the common enemy that finally unites all the various factions then that seems like a real improvement for the region. Maybe not for the US, though.

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      9 months ago

      I don’t think there is any entity alive big or small that could find a way to bring peace to the middle east.