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Re:US Navy destroyer shoots down an ICBM in milestone test by KingOfCoders on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @07:52AM (#25136176)
I guess we differ, I could not shrug away the destruction of a million people city as "messing up" - as someone who lived through the cold war of the 80s, who watched "The day after" while new Pershings were deployed to Germany and who felt the impact of Chernobyl.

The times make the people.

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Re:US Navy destroyer shoots down an ICBM in milestone test by whiddershins on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @08:02AM (#25136259)
That is a complete mischaracterization of GP. This is a very dangerous conversational pattern, where someone makes a factual assertion and the reply is to something which wasn't said, and reimagines the original comment as evil in some way.

Whenever I see someone do this, I generally stop talking immediately, but I am sticking up for GP on this one.

The comment you are replying to in no way made a statement about what is or isn't awful. Simply a comment about the size of various things.

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