Like the rapture, EMP is always just around the corner for certain peoplehttps://twitter.com/sewellgc/status/1044349173041123328?s=21 …
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It’s a weird sociology. There really isn’t inherently much ideological stake in it relative to other threats but it’s become catechism for a certain set. Marriage of a weird cult of cranks within a political movement. Can’t let it go for some reason.
EMP threat is a way to make people feel freshly vulnerable in a way that requires an expensive response in a country where we already spend more on our military than the next 7 countries combined do.
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It feels like it occupies the modern day "civil defense" vacancy left by the Cold War.
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The irony for me is that the people who push for EMP threats rarely actually push for serious solutions. They aren't actually lobbying, as far as I can tell, to upgrade our electrical grid (which wouldn't be the worst thing in the world to do anyway). They're lobbying for fear.
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Three words: Newton Leroy Gingrich
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I'm going to get a plaque that says "___ threat is a way to make people feel freshly vulnerable in a way that requires an expensive response in a country where we already spend more on our military than the next 7 countries combined do" and just change the blank every other year
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