This will fuck us for years to come. Its generational damage. Could even cause us to fall so far we fragment apart.
this post was submitted on 16 Mar 2025
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I just wish the worthless cretins doing this would live long enough to see everyone crumble and their names vilified.
They’d have to possess shame for it to have any effect
If they lived that long they'd probably just end up creating a new country similar to North Korea where everyone glorifies them and treats them like a god.
Queue Trump and Musk statues at the capital of every Network State.
Unfortunately, a real possibility.
How long until the next, deadlier, plague shows up? Laurie Garrett did some pretty great analyses back in the 90s based on population density and mobility in The Coming Plague that worked pretty well for COVID, iirc. With the collapse of biomedical shields at NIH and CDC, I shudder to envision a pathogen like the one in Contagion showing up for Act II of the American Shitshow.
Young scientists see career pathways vanish
That means they previously saw viable career paths in science? Kudos to optimism. o7
We are alive to witness the dumbing down and steep decline of the American empire.
And we voted for it.
A shameful society that will be viewed with disdain by future generations.