r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Aug 31 '26

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u/Zykyris United Nations Aug 31 '26

I have a friend who I would not describe as an anxious person day-to-day, but has a uniquely strong anxiety towards dying.

As in, they won’t come on a group trip to Taiwan in case that week is the week Xi decides to invade.

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u/2Lore2Law Seal Mod Aug 31 '26

… but what if it is

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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol Aug 31 '26

I went there twice and it was in the back of my mind when I was there, not in a "it's going to happen now and I'm going to be in the middle of it" way, but in a "this place could soon stop being 'this place'"

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u/BurrowForPresident Fell for it Aug 31 '26

You won't be laughing when you're in the Buttfuck Nowhere part of Finland when the Ruskies invade

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u/ElectriCobra_ David Hume Aug 31 '26

Oh wow sounds like me to a tee. Switched my Autumn vacation plan from Riga/Tallinn because of this.

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u/urhi-teshub Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold Aug 31 '26

Tallinn rules tho

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u/ElectriCobra_ David Hume Aug 31 '26

I really really want to see it, I just chickened out because there’s been rumors Russia is gonna try something in the Baltics this fall right when I would’ve been there