Political Memes

the best part (and I mean that with extreme sarcasm) of this farce we find ourselves in in the US, of course, is that any future I can imagine is going to be bleak regardless of what happens.

oh hey trump's out of office -- one way or another? great, what about all the criminal fucks surrounding him that have enriched themselves and furthered their political careers because of him? the neo-nazi ideas that are gaining acceptance because we watched the world's richest man make two Nazi salutes at a presidential inauguration, and not one fucking major news outlet could bring themselves to call a spade a spade? how's all that goin'?

you've dealt with all of that? fantastic. now you just have to convince the American population that healthcare isn't socialism, trans people don't want to turn their kids gay, oh, and that rich people are actually their enemy. Well, them, and the Russian and Chinese governments (no, tankies, this comment isn't for you either, blow me). you know, instead of just constantly having asinine culture wars with ourselves. Good luck with that.

oh yeah by the way in a little while Taiwan's probably getting invaded because their independence hurts China's fee-fees and that's gonna fuck the global electronics industry really bad for... a not insignificant amount of time, lets say. And that's probably a conflict we're actually going to get tied up in, unlike invading Greenland (hopefully).

oh hey you've dealt with all of that? ... somehow??? that's cute, hey, by the way, the climate is so totally fucked now that in the near future, wars over access to food and clean water are now almost all but inevitable. and the ocean (and everything else) is full of plastic. glhf!!

When I see young kids nowadays, I feel so depressed knowing what they're going to have to grow up dealing with.

We could have had Star Trek instead we get Mad Max.

Bold of you to assume we'll have books. Or a future...

Hopefully the truth.

But seeing how history still needs to be retold in some places, it might take a while.

It depends on who or what takes over the failed USA, I guess, because "history is told by the victors", at least initially.

I'm thinking about that as well, I cycle through worry and apathy.

I wouldn't consider making better aircraft engines as accelerating climate change, necessarily. It's not like you're making them burn bunker fuel.

Even in the best scenarios where we actually deal with climate change, we weren't going to eliminate commercial flight. We night reduce it by having reasonable high speed train options, but across the ocean is certainly still flight, likely LA to NYC as well.

We shouldn't need NY to DC flights though.

I understand your crisis, but I would not hold your career choice against you for a second, just like I wouldn’t for engineers still refining piston engines for automobiles.

People are going to use them for a long time, so if your niche is making that more efficient then it’s worthwhile.

Innovation is good. The issue is mass use of plastics and excessive consumption, not advanced aerospace engineering

i read that last thing as "stiff tits" and it didnt' change a thing.

Reminded me of Terry Pratchett, personally.

Its also a curse on the discworld

I was looking for that one. 👍

Back to the Future 2 nailed it.

You are literally a reactionary, by the way. Anarchism is a serious political thought. And definitely misunderstood. I'm a libertarian socialist who likes tankies.

But yet you run the risk of becoming the thing you hate. That's why you're always on the losing side. It's a fucking paradox. If you do, ever go coco for cocoa puffs. I hope you punch upward and follow through. Cuz if you don't, you'll create the very reason why we all get put into fucking death camps.

School children in the future being forced to include “covfefe” in their reports.

Who needs The Onion anymore?