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user-inactivated  ·  2858 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Trial Balloon for a Coup? Analyzing the news of the past 24 hours

Counter argument one. All of our previous failsafes have failed and we'd never thought we'd be here. Here we are. The chances of more failsafe failing, however unlikely, are there.

Counter argument two. I'm certain other people, in other countries, with unexpected situations also said "there's no way x could happen. There are too many obstacles in the way for something like that." There they were.