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New York Times Downplays Nuclear War
from #292 - Do It Quietly | The Tim Dillon Show · #292
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Tim reacts with alarm to a New York Times article suggesting smaller nuclear weapons make a strike 'less unthinkable,' riffing darkly on how a nuclear war might even help inflation numbers by killing hundreds of millions.
- Tim on the New York Times preparing readers for nuclear war by downplaying its severity.
- The Times frames a nuclear exchange as less damaging than Cold War fears suggested.
- Tim reads the headline: smaller, 'less destructive' nuclear arms make a strike 'less unthinkable.'
- Tim's interpretation: experts saying a few nukes going off isn't that big a deal.
- The sanctions have crippled Russia's economy and Putin is desperate, yet media keeps saying he's losing.
- Late night hosts and pundits openly joking about assassinating Putin without recognizing the danger.
- Tim wonders if the New York Times writer realizes he dies too in a nuclear war, unless he has a bunker.
- Nuclear war would kill 700 million people, but Tim notes this solves the inflation problem.
- After shedding hundreds of millions of people, the economy suddenly seems reasonable again.
- Whether nuclear war or something else, people gotta go either way.