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Indy reporter Alejandro Alvarez: "There’re about 100 protesters huddled in Lafayette Park, awaiting Trump’s return from #Helsinki2018. They’re chanting stuff like 'you’re the puppet,' 'Benedict Arnold has got to go,' and holding up LED-lit signs like these..."
When I was a little girl I used to end all my nightly prayers with the words, "And please no nuclear war, and peace on earth. Amen." This was in the early eighties. The knowledge that weapons existed armed and ready which could annihilate all life on earth, including my Mum and my Dad and everyone I loved, kept me up at night.
I still marvel at the fact that these weapons exist, just as armed and just as ready, and we just go about our lives like it's perfectly normal. They're even more prone to malfunction than they were back then, because so many parts of the system are
much older now. All it would take is something failing to work the way it's meant to or somebody making a mistake or miscommunication that hadn't been adequately anticipated and prepared for, and it could set into motion a chain of events from which there is no coming back. We've already come within a hair's breadth of nuclear annihilation
on more than one occasion due to such occurrances, and yet people still act like preventing that from ever happening isn't the single most important priority for our entire species.
Comment: It's not surprising Johansson bowed to the pressure. It's probably not worth it to take on a potentially career-ending position over something so ridiculous. Better to stick with the infinite number of Avengers sequels coming your way, Scarlett. Let the mob eat itself.
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