I Don't Give A TET About This Title

[Gallade]

Yeah. I feel much the same way about all that's happened.

Brexit...The coup in Turkey....South China Sea shit...
The world is going straight to hell.
Just my luck, the world may end before I even graduate from High School or turn old enough to drink.

I feel it prudent to pull you back down to Terra firma. World being in shit doesn't mean we're one step away from nuclear Armageddon. World powers don't even have the cojones to put boots on the ground in troubled parts right now.

[Luziyca]

10 years ago we were also 10 years younger.

I think youth does tint life in a more positive way than it actually is.

When I was eight, I had my brother to give me shit, not the world.
There were less global issues I was aware of, that's about it. I do agree a tiny bit with the thrust of "Stressed Out", though...

Yeah. Ignorance really is bliss.

[Great Feng]

Brexit...The coup in Turkey....South China Sea shit...
The world is going straight to hell.
Just my luck, the world may end before I even graduate from High School or turn old enough to drink.

Indeed. I have this same feeling about 2016.

If the world ends tomorrow, quite frankly, it'd be a good thing.

Not me I need to still redeem myself for my sins!
I think WW3 may start soon.
Am I the only one in TET who feels this way?

[Great Feng]

Brexit...The coup in Turkey....South China Sea shit...
The world is going straight to hell.
Just my luck, the world may end before I even graduate from High School or turn old enough to drink.

I feel it prudent to pull you back down to Terra firma. World being in shit doesn't mean we're one step away from nuclear Armageddon. World powers don't even have the cojones to put boots on the ground in troubled parts right now.

No I know. No one wanted WW1 to happen either(WW2 though some wanted it).
But it did.
I'm saying, don't think WW3 is likely, but don't rule it out.

[Gallade]

Better?

I mean, comparatively speaking.

10 years ago we were also 10 years younger.

I think youth does tint life in a more positive way than it actually is.

No, 2006 was objectively sweet. Everyone had stopped caring about the Middle East, last true year of economic stability, reeeeeeally nice summer.

Ah, 2006.

[Vedilia]

Indeed. I have this same feeling about 2016.

If the world ends tomorrow, quite frankly, it'd be a good thing.

Not me I need to still redeem myself for my sins!
I think WW3 may start soon.
Am I the only one in TET who feels this way?

I'm sorry, but I think this is part of the global equilibrium.

When I was eight, I had my brother to give me shit, not the world.
There were less global issues I was aware of, that's about it. I do agree a tiny bit with the thrust of "Stressed Out", though...

Yeah. Ignorance really is bliss.

After all I've seen, I can only say amen to that.

[Gallade]

I feel it prudent to pull you back down to Terra firma. World being in shit doesn't mean we're one step away from nuclear Armageddon. World powers don't even have the cojones to put boots on the ground in troubled parts right now.

No I know. No one wanted WW1 to happen either(WW2 though some wanted it).
But it did.
I'm saying, don't think WW3 is likely, but don't rule it out.

There are a few times I can preface a sentence with "As a foreign diplomat, I..."

Here's one. As a foreign diplomat, I am ruling out World War 3 within this decade.

[Great Feng]

10 years ago we were also 10 years younger.

I think youth does tint life in a more positive way than it actually is.

No, 2006 was objectively sweet. Everyone had stopped caring about the Middle East, last true year of economic stability, reeeeeeally nice summer.

Ah, 2006.

What about 2007?

[Great Feng]

No I know. No one wanted WW1 to happen either(WW2 though some wanted it).
But it did.
I'm saying, don't think WW3 is likely, but don't rule it out.

There are a few times I can preface a sentence with "As a foreign diplomat, I..."

Here's one. As a foreign diplomat, I am ruling out World War 3 within this decade.

Perhaps.
But don't rule it out entirely. It may be very unlikely(89% or 95% unlikely), but still realistically possible within this decade.

[Gallade]

No, 2006 was objectively sweet. Everyone had stopped caring about the Middle East, last true year of economic stability, reeeeeeally nice summer.

Ah, 2006.

What about 2007?

2007 is when the economic troubles started in my part of the world and suddenly all our prospects were much bleaker. 2007 was awful.

[Gallade]

There are a few times I can preface a sentence with "As a foreign diplomat, I..."

Here's one. As a foreign diplomat, I am ruling out World War 3 within this decade.

Perhaps.
But don't rule it out entirely. It may be very unlikely(89% or 95% unlikely), but still realistically possible within this decade.

No, it's really not.

[Great Feng]

What about 2007?

2007 is when the economic troubles started in my part of the world and suddenly all our prospects were much bleaker. 2007 was awful.

Ah.
Well we're fucked.

[Great Feng]

Perhaps.
But don't rule it out entirely. It may be very unlikely(89% or 95% unlikely), but still realistically possible within this decade.

No, it's really not.

People ruled out WW1 years in the same decade it happened as realistically extremely unlikely. Same with WW2.

[Luziyca]

Brexit...The coup in Turkey....South China Sea shit...
The world is going straight to hell.
Just my luck, the world may end before I even graduate from High School or turn old enough to drink.

I feel it prudent to pull you back down to Terra firma. World being in shit doesn't mean we're one step away from nuclear Armageddon. World powers don't even have the cojones to put boots on the ground in troubled parts right now.

Not really, but if Trump even achieves power... all I know is that I am at the point where I feel Trump is the leader the USA deserves. Not to support his policies, but because his character reflects that of most of the American population.

This year has really destroyed what little faith of humanity I had left.

[Great Feng]

I feel it prudent to pull you back down to Terra firma. World being in shit doesn't mean we're one step away from nuclear Armageddon. World powers don't even have the cojones to put boots on the ground in troubled parts right now.

Not really, but if Trump even achieves power... all I know is that I am at the point where I feel Trump is the leader the USA deserves. Not to support his policies, but because his character reflects that of most of the American population.

This year has really destroyed what little faith of humanity I had left.

There's still hope!
Cascadia could secede from the USA and I could become King!
Sure, that;s 99% unlikely, but hey, it's something, right?

[Luziyca]

Not really, but if Trump even achieves power... all I know is that I am at the point where I feel Trump is the leader the USA deserves. Not to support his policies, but because his character reflects that of most of the American population.

This year has really destroyed what little faith of humanity I had left.

There's still hope!
Cascadia could secede from the USA and I could become King!
Sure, that;s 99% unlikely, but hey, it's something, right?

I am more in favor of the USA dissolving into 50-some countries like how the USSR dissolved into 15 republics.

[Gallade]

No, it's really not.

People ruled out WW1 years in the same decade it happened as realistically extremely unlikely. Same with WW2.

We have alternatives to open warfare that was not technologically possible in either the First or Second World Wars. Drones are infinitely more preferable than land invasions when it comes to guerilla warfare.

We are being asked to prepare for the new normal for a reason - the long haul, unfortunately or no, is scattered attacks on occasion and a summary retaliation.

In short, no WW3 this decade. Very unlikely for there to be one over the next few decades I'd go so far to speculate.

[The Grim Reaper]

No, it's really not.

People ruled out WW1 years in the same decade it happened as realistically extremely unlikely. Same with WW2.

The 'ruling out' of WW2 was based on political naivety, both genuine and forged, by backbenchers and journalists. From Versailles onwards, the French government was keenly aware of the imminent threat of the German war machine - to quote Ferdinand Foch, Supreme Allied Commander at the close of WWI, "this is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years". The Maginot Line was based entirely on an awareness of WWI and its applicability to the future.

The USSR was also extremely worried about Axis incursion - part of the reason for Molotov-Ribbentrop was to allow Russia to deal with the potential for the Balkans and Turkey to flip to the Axis, as they had in WWI, without over-extending its front. They knew it would have been too costly to do what France was hoping for them to do, to open a new front on the Central Powers as they had in WWI. It was WWI that led to the collapse of Russia into the Bolshevik Revolution.

I'm firmly of the opinion that Chamberlain's appeasement was mainly to buy time, but I'm not well-versed on British politics, and in hindsight it is blindingly obvious that that was, at the very least, a disputably reasonable response. But for most other parties, WWII was an incredibly foreseeable event based on existing tensions that had been considered in detail, down to the Russian invasion of Manchuria that marked its dying days. In the same way, theorists and diplomats can reasonably consider factors like the ones Gallade is presenting in order to predict that a new World War would be so unlikely as to be an impossibility.

[Luziyca]

People ruled out WW1 years in the same decade it happened as realistically extremely unlikely. Same with WW2.

We have alternatives to open warfare that was not technologically possible in either the First or Second World Wars. Drones are infinitely more preferable than land invasions when it comes to guerilla warfare.

We are being asked to prepare for the new normal for a reason - the long haul, unfortunately or no, is scattered attacks on occasion and a summary retaliation.

In short, no WW3 this decade. Very unlikely for there to be one over the next few decades I'd go so far to speculate.

Yeah.

Personally, I don't think there's any chance of WW3 really taking place.

But with Brexit, with the rise of the far-right in the Western world, the police brutality (and retaliation against the police), and rising terrorism... it feels as if we are standing on the precipice of prosperity, and the precipice is getting narrower and narrower until we end up falling.

[Gallade]

We have alternatives to open warfare that was not technologically possible in either the First or Second World Wars. Drones are infinitely more preferable than land invasions when it comes to guerilla warfare.

We are being asked to prepare for the new normal for a reason - the long haul, unfortunately or no, is scattered attacks on occasion and a summary retaliation.

In short, no WW3 this decade. Very unlikely for there to be one over the next few decades I'd go so far to speculate.

Yeah.

Personally, I don't think there's any chance of WW3 really taking place.

But with Brexit, with the rise of the far-right in the Western world, the police brutality (and retaliation against the police), and rising terrorism... it feels as if we are standing on the precipice of prosperity, and the precipice is getting narrower and narrower until we end up falling.

If this decade is anything, it's a serious test of globalism and relatively centrist democracy, agreed.

[Vedilia]

There's still hope!
Cascadia could secede from the USA and I could become King!
Sure, that;s 99% unlikely, but hey, it's something, right?

I am more in favor of the USA dissolving into 50-some countries like how the USSR dissolved into 15 republics.

That would be horrible.

We have alternatives to open warfare that was not technologically possible in either the First or Second World Wars. Drones are infinitely more preferable than land invasions when it comes to guerilla warfare.

We are being asked to prepare for the new normal for a reason - the long haul, unfortunately or no, is scattered attacks on occasion and a summary retaliation.

In short, no WW3 this decade. Very unlikely for there to be one over the next few decades I'd go so far to speculate.

Yeah.

Personally, I don't think there's any chance of WW3 really taking place.

But with Brexit, with the rise of the far-right in the Western world, the police brutality (and retaliation against the police), and rising terrorism... it feels as if we are standing on the precipice of prosperity, and the precipice is getting narrower and narrower until we end up falling.

We have another hundred years at most, maybe, before the nukes fly.
I dunno. Hopefully not in my lifetime!

[Luziyca]

Yeah.

Personally, I don't think there's any chance of WW3 really taking place.

But with Brexit, with the rise of the far-right in the Western world, the police brutality (and retaliation against the police), and rising terrorism... it feels as if we are standing on the precipice of prosperity, and the precipice is getting narrower and narrower until we end up falling.

If this decade is anything, it's a serious test of globalism and relatively centrist democracy, agreed.

Indeed. I hope the latter makes it through it. But for the former, we can do with some economic nationalism and not be too dependent on foreign companies.

[Mattopilos]

If this decade is anything, it's a serious test of globalism and relatively centrist democracy, agreed.

Indeed. I hope the latter makes it through it. But for the former, we can do with some economic nationalism and not be too dependent on foreign companies.

Honestly in this day and age, decentralization and globalism is the best way to go. I do agree though - the EU needs to loosen up a little on their wacky policies.

[USS Monitor]

I feel it prudent to pull you back down to Terra firma. World being in shit doesn't mean we're one step away from nuclear Armageddon. World powers don't even have the cojones to put boots on the ground in troubled parts right now.

Not really, but if Trump even achieves power... all I know is that I am at the point where I feel Trump is the leader the USA deserves. Not to support his policies, but because his character reflects that of most of the American population.

It really doesn't reflect most of the population. Most Americans don't like him. It's just that he and his supporters make a lot of noise.

[Luziyca]

Indeed. I hope the latter makes it through it. But for the former, we can do with some economic nationalism and not be too dependent on foreign companies.

Honestly in this day and age, decentralization and globalism is the best way to go. I do agree though - the EU needs to loosen up a little on their wacky policies.

Indeed. Some globalism is nice, but I prefer glocalism.