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Re:New exotic matter particle, a tetraquark, discovered at CERN by JetSetWilly on Friday July 30, 2021 @02:52PM (#28011048)
Because your interstellar equivalent of the CIA can obtain the political capital to prevent a civilisational rival from emerging via subtle manipulations, but it can't obtain the political capital and consensus needed to commit wholesale genocide.

There's a big difference between the scenarios.

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Re:New exotic matter particle, a tetraquark, discovered at CERN by rsynnott on Friday July 30, 2021 @09:12PM (#28014306)
In this case the subtle manipulations were just a holding pattern while they waited on the genocide; it was going to take them 400 years to get here.
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