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[โ€“] cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Ronaldo and Messi should be on the same team.

[โ€“] c0smokram3r@midwest.social 1 points 11 months ago

Penaldo would never

[โ€“] Don_Dickle@lemmy.world -5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

You do realize was not talking about tennis right?

[โ€“] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 16 points 11 months ago

You know they aren't tennis players right?

[โ€“] all-knight-party@kbin.run 5 points 11 months ago

They just thought they were funny because you said "players" and they purposefully misconstrued it for internet high fives

[โ€“] Carrolade@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Earth vs the Moon, Mars and maybe an atmospheric Venus base, triggered over exploitation of lunar resources by multi-planetary corporations, with insufficient compensation, lack of political representation and poor living conditions resulting in an interplanetary terrorist attack that triggers an overwhelming backlash.

I'll take a potshot and predict it in the 23rd century.

[โ€“] Today@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

This is a good reason to be a childless cat lady.

[โ€“] dormedas@lemmy.dormedas.com 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] AdNecrias@lemmy.pt 2 points 11 months ago

Solar war 1

[โ€“] juliebean@lemm.ee 6 points 11 months ago

BATTLE ROYALE

[โ€“] 30p87@feddit.org 4 points 11 months ago

I'm sending in that Turkish shooter

[โ€“] stiephelando@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

China invading Taiwan is gonna be the start of it. It'll be NATO against a Chinese-Russian-NK alliance.

[โ€“] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 4 points 11 months ago

Will. Iran be part of it? I guess yes and Israel on the other side.

[โ€“] intensely_human@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

More like Russia annexing Crimea will be the start of it.

Or rather, will be described as the start of it by future historians.

[โ€“] stiephelando@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 11 months ago

Possible for sure.

[โ€“] JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Just a hunch, but it seems to me that in an event to be called WW3 there would be a lot of infighting. There just appears to be a lot more civil unrest in recent decades, and I just have a feeling it would be a war much more fragmented than the ones before it.

[โ€“] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

The US is so divided right now it seems like the other major players won't mind treating the remnants like bread amongst themselves.

[โ€“] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

We better hurry it up so that Tim Curry can have a leading role.

[โ€“] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

A brief history of WW3:

  • 2014: Russia annexes a small piece of Ukraine
  • 2022: Russia invades Ukraine, leading to ongoing fighting
  • 2023: Hamas attacks Israel, leading to ongoing Israeli attacks on Hamas in Gaza
  • 2024: Iran attacks Israel, Israel attacks Iran, China attacks Taiwan. US supports Taiwan with munitions, similar to Ukraine
  • 2025: China shoots down a US Satellite, bringing the US (directly) into the war. Naval fighting over Indonesia and Pacific Islands
  • 2026: people finally start calling it WW3
  • 2027-??: hard to say