Maybe the purpose of a system is what it does…
Maybe trying to lower the rate/efficiency of the baby-killing machine is the wrong approach…
Maybe you should be thinking about destroying it…
The year is 2036. It is the most important election of our lives. Harold Haymus Oldman runs as “H2O,” the brutal warlord of the water wars, promising hydration for God’s worthy creatures. His opponent is ZebLinx0-Alpha, an amalgamated hybrid of pharmaceuticals, communication satellites, and a Large Language Model. Their first debate is broadcast on subscriber-only YouTube. Only six Americans can afford it, but they aren’t watching because they already know who wins.
I thought 2024 was the most important language and the last election.
of course, ron desantis loses to david duke in a landslide because everyone stayed home again - but moreover, the elections stopped actually counting the votes ever since 2028 and they only do it for the sake of keeping up appearances by then.
I yearn for the good old days when being conservative meant not blowing up the deficit with stupid bullshit and lumping Nazis, religious extremists, and imperialist commies into a basket of ‘people only useful for adding nitrogen and phosphorous to soil’. That was only 20 years ago
Edit: I mean, imagine an alternate universe without Reagan or the Moral Majority, and instead of Trump we had some candidate who wanted to raise corporate tax rates on large businesses to balance the budget and give small businesses a fighting chance, and holding the line at the Ukraine-Russia border at all costs. That’s what I mean, pretty peachy huh
Idk where you were 2004, but the conservatives you speak of certainly weren’t around. In fact, I’m quite sure they never existed, considering conservatism in the US has always been closely tied to white supremacy and Christian nationalism.
Yeah the more I think about it the more I think it was Reagan and Falwell that flipped everything around. Everyone got a sip of the tax cut and Christian values koolaid
Yeah, that’s no typo. You have regular boring communist countries that just sit there being communist. In a post-McCarthy world most people realized those countries are pretty benign. You have imperialist nations that attempt to extend their territory and influence. Then you slap it all together and you get the USSR. Or Putin’s Russia. Don’t let them knock over their neighbors, install puppet governments, give them any aid or comfort or intel or anything
Democrats really have been trying to peddle a final solution on a slightly longer timeline as the absolute limit of harm reduction while refusing to withhold ammunition from the occupation.
Destroying this system is the only sane response.
