• PassingThrough@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    We went from no computers to computers in your toothbrush, from pong to Cyberpunk 2077 in what, less than 50 years?

    People think if that can happen, we are just one ion booster or warp bubble invention away from interstellar travel. Surely that too can happen in less than 50 “as long as we stop limiting businesses ability to invest and grow and…” all those other things they’ve been told are holding us back.

    And since the CDC has been muzzled and WHO departed from, guess we’ll see if we’re magically healthier without them.

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      2 days ago

      And since the CDC has been muzzled and WHO departed from, guess we’ll see if we’re magically healthier without them.

      That won’t matter either.

      There’s very obvious evidence that some average American homesteading Greenland, or invading neighbors, is a Bad Idea, but that doesn’t matter because its not penetrating people’s reality bubbles filled with influencers incentivized to push this stuff for attention.

      …So why would real health data matter? Trump can just claim victory and say everyone is healthier. How would the average American know otherwise? Sure, maybe they’re personally miserable, but the world as they know it is telling them their leader is fighting it.

      What’s especially troubling is that Trump is “drinking his own Kool-aid” in this situation. I don’t want to say its unprecedented, but usually despotic regimes are more self aware that that and less “Idiocracy.”