i feel this whole clock thing is such a liberal jerk off grounded in idealism not materialism. theyve been edging on 89 seconds to midnight since 2024.

i remember them moving the clock forward when north korea did some missile test a long time ago, as if north korea are the global aggressors 🙄. and of course it was 7 minutes to midnight during the cuban missile crisis.

trump threatening war on like 5 different countries is worrying, but i feel its mostly just MIC stock manipulation.

I am very worried about the US starting WW3. It’s March of 1939, and nazis are actively fabricating a casus belli against weaker foreign political enemies.

A bit more concerned now that the US is resuming nuclear tests.

To be honest, the idea of nuclear weapons ever being used again is far scarier to me than WW3 in general.

Global war between who?

Russia has been shown to be a paper tiger. China wants to dominate through trade not warfare. Everybody else doesn’t really have an axe to grind. At least, not on that scale.

The people who have the power to burn it all down are unstable. I am concerned, but helpless.

I go to bed at 8. So if you all did the same we wouldn’t need to worry.

But you don’t, so I am very worried. I married someone who is incredibly unaware of caring about news. To the point that they would have gone on a cruise to Jamaica last week for the music and dancing. Completely clueless person. The moment I say anything like “we should cancel because…” Or “maybe we should avoid the area due to the largest, most powerful hurricane ever” she goes crazy berserk on me.

Good luck to you all, I’m going to be a stained sidewalk and or wall somewhere. Hopefully somewhere important so passersby will know it was me who perished there…me, the stain of the sidewalk man ofcourse. Unless maybe I carry my information engraved in a quartz tablet with me at all times!

Honestly? Not very.

I grew up in the 1980’s doing duck-and-cover drills in school until the Berlin Wall came down. Growing up a science nerd who practically lived at the library, it was pretty obvious that duck-and-cover would do jack-and-shit if anybody ever pressed the big red button. So, I had to come to terms with the possibility that somebody might nuke where I grew up, probably far too early than was good for my mental health.

What it comes down to is this: In the unlikely event that somebody pops off a nuclear weapon, there is precisely dick that you, I, or anybody else likely to read this thread could do about it. It’s way above any of our pay grades, to steal a phrase. The only thing you can really do is take heart in the fact that there is nothing you did to cause it and nothing you can do to stop it, just like a solar flare or a gamma ray burst. The best you can hope for is that you’re somewhere in the first two blast radii because the most likely outcome is a bright flash, and that’ll be that. No suffering, no radiation sickness, no cancer eating you alive months to years later.

I get that’s not the kind of response you’re looking for, and I can’t blame you for that. However, neither am I willing to lie. Nuclear war is possibly one of the most horrible things the human race is capable of, and there is no happy medium, nothing reassuring, nothing hopeful that can be said.

Hug your loved ones.

I’m not nearly as concerned about global war as I am about Civil War. There are enough reasonable leaders on all sides that if the few really whacky ones get froggy, they’ll get dealt with.

The world biggest problem is the 800 pound gorilla in the White House. He’s everybody’s loose cannon.

I mean the article was in January and no world leader was randomly starting wars with other countries, showing incredible mental deterioration or talking about testing their nuclear missiles and asking if they would go to heaven so I’m sure it’s fine…

If I see a mushroom cloud I’m running towards it. No need to go to work, no need to pay back mortgage.

I’ve been watching this clock for 40 years, also watched it get enshitified the last 20 years.

It has always been a symbol of empire, run by many the same fools who enabled the madness. But the revolving door and who contributes got worse since the 1990s. And it’s just some thing now.

They may be wrong or correct, who am I to know. But not to be relied on, I think

largest military and nuclear stockpile country going full facist. Its one second to midnight from my view.

Trump’s cabinet probably:

It’s always been midnight.

And this is well before Trump’s announcement of nuclear testing resumption.

If he actually goes through with it, everyone will know because it shows up on seismographs, something he’s apparently ignorant of… And the comission will surely move it closer.

I am extremely concerned. There’s never been somone so unscientifically minded, with no one knowledgable on nuclear warfare advising him directly, with their finger on the button like this.

And what’s annoying is that my relatives do not care. Even the scientifically minded ones. There is absolutely nothing Trump can do wrong, at least nothing that can get through without being warped and dismissed as hysteria. That in itself is scary, as there’s now no “political fallout” check on Trump’s actions until 401Ks literally evaporate.