• DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    Well over 30.

    I’m 95% certain our quality of life is going to degrade for the remainder of our lives in this country.

    I’m not even going out of my way to be pessimistic. I’ve been alive for a while now and all the signs point to this being our future.

    And it was all easily avoidable with even just a little common sense and critical thinking skills from average Americans.

    Needless to say, I’m not really a fan of humans anymore. We’re pretty stupid animals.

      • dhork@lemmy.world
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        9 hours ago

        I wonder that, myself, but I am not at all sure how Al Gore would have handled the aftermath of 9/11. (I don’t mean the crisis itself, but rather the blame game that was sure to come afterwards).

        While Dubya was a big fat liar, we might have gotten some even worse Republican in 2004, and then Barack Obama would probably never have become President. (But it is possible he would stay in the Senate and be the current Democratic leader).

        No, the timeline shift I wonder about is what would have happened if Democrats let Bernie win in 2016, instead of being in the tank for Hillary. If Trump was never President, he would probably be in jail by now.