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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWe live in the dumbest fucking timeline
In another universe, Clinton won in 2016, the U.S. is prosperous, there are less than 10 billionaires in the country, Elooooon was deported back to South Africa, universal healthcare is the law of the land, abortion rights were codified in the Constitution as an amendment, Putin was overthrown and rumored to be part of a sidewalk near Red Square, and a child rapist bag of fuck is drooling in his cell.
Bettie
(19,636 posts)to be on the waitlist for that timeline?
Because this one SUCKS.
electric_blue68
(26,804 posts)dweller
(28,308 posts)And dream i wake up in that timeline
🙏
✌🏻
Dave Bowman
(7,113 posts)BlueKota
(5,314 posts)to find and live in that timeline.
Skittles
(171,465 posts)imagine how much better off we would have been with Al Gore instead of that warmonger fucking POS Dubya
calimary
(89,871 posts)Coventina
(29,650 posts)Heck, it happened before I was born, but I wouldnt mind being in the timeline when JFK wasnt assassinated.
Skittles
(171,465 posts)at first I thought you were saying Gore/Dubya was before you were born and I immediately thought, I HAVE SHOES OLDER THAN YOU
Coventina
(29,650 posts)calimary
(89,871 posts)She would have kicked the last closed door open for women in politics.
diverdownjt
(737 posts)Where things are very different. NONE of them saw a ruling class with such incompetent buffoons that were this successful at
f##cking shit up so fast and so completely.
kairos12
(13,562 posts)jfz9580m
(17,107 posts)Or back some 50 years ago people were not aggressively attacked by both a type of left and the right for espousing family planning globally and suggesting that not testing the limits to growth is good. We could have as a species chosen sustainability and homeostasis over lack of education and cheap plastic shit made in sweatshops from around the world !
Christopher Ketcham (who in combination with Yasha Levine and Adam Becker - yeah they are all white and male, but I am nonwhite, female, sterile and really mostly a marijuana plant at this point body composition wise so it all cancels out..Paulis Exclusion Principle!) said it was saner back then in that way:
https://ketcham99.substack.com/p/population-toxification-part-ii
We are in a society where a reality show star could launch nukes and where Zuckerberg is Prof Yan Lecuns boss rather than a student he kicks out and gives a C- to due to a continuing refusal to cooperate with reality and paint as nutty basic logic pertaining to common sense. Prof Lecun is the only ai researcher I completely trust.
I am not white or male, but I am from a matriarchal community and solidly middleclass here in India anyway. And that is relatively privileged and I have no wish to climb, but I definitely do not want a worse bargain than the average one I had for 33 years. With EECS defrauding me during that period as well and CS generally defrauding me evidently in the last 14.5 years.
BigmanPigman
(55,080 posts)Voters never learn from history or the errors we have made. I used to be a proud patriot. I lived in Phila. I was born on July 3rd. The 4th of July was a real celebration for me. Not any more! Thanks to the dumbest voters on Earth the USA now sucks. I am embarrassed to be an American.