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   Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 06:01:41 JST Charlie Stross

   @grease

   What's really needed is a sequence:

   1. Trump loses, conclusively, next Tuesday.

   2. Putin dies. At this point, a rescue package for the Russian people is vital to prevent this whole mess recurring 20 years downthe line.

   3. Harris leans on Netanyahu VERY HARD INDEED. (Better still: Netanyahu dies.)

   4. A coordinated crackdown on the fossil fuel lobby, worldwide, to disrupt their pro-carbon astroturf campaigns.

   5. A ramp-down of US/China tensions: ideally wait out Xi (he's not young).

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 06:28:19 JST Charlie Stross

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     • Rupert

     @rupert @grease I am 60 and I mislike this too. However ... the old guys in question are gasoline addicts. They can't imagine a world that doesn't run on gas (for which they get paid indirectly by their client billionaires) so they will fight to defend it, even though it's going to kill the rest of us.

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     Rupert (rupert@mastodon.nz)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 06:28:20 JST Rupert

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     @cstross @grease You're not *wrong* to suggest that a lot of the world's problems could be solved by the demise of some old (mostly) white guys, but as an older white guy I mislike the precedent.