>>11517473In a better world they'd be aiding nations that have been suffering from various aggressors and preparing for the catastrophe. Once it blows up they'd ask those they've been supporting for help, and those would go "sure, you're our allies".
But in the real world both the average USA guy and the average anywhere else guy is a keratin-deficient simian with sadistic inclinations and foresight capacity of a caterpillar so they'll cheer as someone else gets fucked over.
This is why we few delude ourselves hoping for space programs to bear fruit (because even the best and brightest will inevitably bring all this cancer with them as their descendants will inevitably manifest what the evolutionary pressures have been beating into us and our ancestor species over and over again) while we wait for GRBs to end it all.
