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    eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 3 Jan 2020

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    a lot of responses are along the lines of "the war was good or necessary in abstract but the execution was bungled and misconceived" which fine but its probably helpful to remember that all wars are gonna be run by the same set of fuckups so probably good to model that parthttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1213283991715033093 …

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    Hmm Was the war in Afghanistan a mistake? Did you support it at the time?
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    • Bharath Reddy roon (🔄, 🔄) Tequehead Thom Yorke Peppermint Patty Mandy VeryRealInternetFriend golden phantom (50(1 + sqrt(5))/100) camp002 . R.
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      2. PoliMath‏ @politicalmath 3 Jan 2020
        Replying to @eigenrobot

        (quietly) We are all kept enthralled to the myth of a good and clean war, writ in the our sacred remembrance of the victory of WWII, which came about largely through carpet bombing Germany back to the stone age followed by nuking Japan twice.

        3 replies 2 retweets 24 likes
      3. PoliMath‏ @politicalmath 3 Jan 2020
        Replying to @politicalmath @eigenrobot

        We like to imagine we can have a clean war, but there is no clean war. The only way we were able to buttress the myth of a clean war was when the media worked in concert with the gov't to bolster that narrative, suppressing any and all contrary narratives.

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      1. Christopher Smith‏ @chrylis 3 Jan 2020
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        first contact with the enemy

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      2. Matt "jira delenda est" Olson‏ @arachnocapital2 3 Jan 2020
        Replying to @AmbrosialArts @eigenrobot

        tbh before clicking through I thought this was about the "rationalist accent" topic

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      1. #8‏ @perilousphoto 3 Jan 2020
        Replying to @eigenrobot

        Socialized medicine won’t work because the gov can’t do anything right! Let’s let the gov have a few trillion to *checks notes* run a complex series of invasions spanning decades for no discernible reason! Same people.

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      2. Alex Godofsky‏ @AlexGodofsky 4 Jan 2020
        Replying to @eigenrobot

        This is usually the correct level of meta for this question, but in this specific case you need to step back one further and ask if "what if NOT war" was a available option in context. (I am skeptical.) If you decide it was not, "what if better war" becomes available again.

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      3. Alex Godofsky‏ @AlexGodofsky 4 Jan 2020
        Replying to @AlexGodofsky @eigenrobot

        (If you carry this logic far enough you reduce to delta outcome / delta opinion, which is zero, and then stop having opinions.)

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      2. Dignambit‏ @David_o_Bedlam 4 Jan 2020
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        I think the proper thing to ask is: what would the alternatives have been? I don't think any nation could suffer an attack on its national military, a major city landmark, and (attempted) WH and NOT counter militarily.

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      3. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 4 Jan 2020
        Replying to @David_o_Bedlam

        Hmmmm But we do airstrikes all the time without reprisal 🤔

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