Cause saving everyone’s lives for the sake of saving lives is not profitable and woke.
Fucking morons.
I don’t think so Tim.
Dumbass is burning every ounce of soft power the US ever had and he’s convinced his supporters that it’ll maga.
Just as Putin ordered.
That is the most disheartening part. I didn’t build American Hegemony, nor was I victim of it, but damn it if there wasn’t a chance we could have collectively come to our senses and practiced what our constitution preaches. There was a path forward to that “Star Trek” future in my eyes.
Still is just gotta fight for it. Do and get others doing too!! Plenty of us are nationwide but the more the better!!
Star Trek had a massive nuclear war before the idyllic future we see in the show, seems we’re pretty on track actually
Bell Riots, when?
Yeah, but that version sucks to live through.
Shit, you ain’t even getting Starship Troopers.
You’ll get the fascism part and not get the mixed gender bathrooms.
It has been like a year or two since I have seen it, but what am I not getting?
One of my favorite part of the entire movie was how it was literally a propaganda film with the advertisement for the televised execution.
Would you like to know more?
The US fundamentally didn’t stand a chance of achieving a Star Trek future. Individuals and society have opposing goals. The US is big on individuals, so society will suffer.
I read a Chinese work on this a year or so ago. In that, our current world fell apart in the nuclear war because America couldn’t settle its differences. Humanity built a new society on top of it to be much more collectivist, though they also modified the anatomy of the human species somewhat to make this possible. Of course, some people felt that the price of preventing the rise of another Trump is too much to pay, and started a revolt.
The question put forward by that work is essentially this: Suppose you had a magic button that made everyone feel immense empathy for everyone else, and want to genuinely improve everyone’s well-being. However, this will cause everyone to live simple lives, forever. “Interesting times” will be a thing of the past, for better or worse. Would you take the offer?
I’ll admit I’m exhausted, but I’m confused about the simple lives part? Seems really non-sequitor Even people with empathy disagree, kill, try, out compete? Fuck even I’ve done things and felt bad.
So without understanding the second part of your hypothetical question, and no knowledge of this magic buttons operation, yes, assuming it’s not some monkey’s paw bullshit.
But to respond generally, how about the preamble to the constitution:
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Tell me a better mission statment from an existing government.
There still is and there will be
Remember that star trek too had WWIII around this time, before they got to their senses
Then again, its a show, of course, but it’s a good example to aspire to
Radical Hope my friend, it’s a hell of a Drug.
he’s convinced his supporters that it’ll maga
It seems a certain portion of this country are completely unreachable by logic or reason. Virtually all of those types seem to be unshakable fans of Taco.
Watching conversations like those on The Necessary Conversation where they talk to their conservative parents is…wild.
I’m not too sure about that… yeah, there are those that are completely lost in limbo and won’t ever get out of it, but I’ve seen loads of cracks in the Maga base for months now. I’m wondering how much more those people are willing to take.
If Trump isn’t a Russian asset, why is he doing absolutely everything one would do?
I’ve been getting told since about 2016 that Donvict’s ties to Russia are a “hoax”.
“Hoax” is the word Trump uses for an inconvenient fact. It’s one of his tells.
He totally is. Compromized enough he is trying to blow up nato even. Not there yet, greenland did not pull the expansionist fervor he was hoping.
They need the military so he cannot jpset them until they are more secure. Arms contractors are a big factor too, lots of europe monies for weapons. Hence his floating a half trillion increase in spending I suspect.
Right, the WHO is the one straying from its core mission, not us. Definitely not projecting, why do you ask?
This administration is directly increasing mortality and morbidity. How do we bring a class action lawsuit, from the entire world against this administration.
A senior HHS official said on Thursday that the WHO “strayed from its core mission and has acted contrary to the U.S. interests in protecting the U.S. public on multiple occasions.”
The U.S. has interests in protecting the U.S. public? News to me, citation needed.
The US interest in promoting ivermectin and colloidal silver.
I was catching up a bit on Scott Adams after he had passed and saw that he had said that ivermectin did not work for him in treatment for his cancer.
Ivermectin. For cancer.
The cons have always been idiots about world organizations, but I think Covid completely broke their brains when it came to issues of health.
The anti-vaccine bullshit combined with unhinged nativism and conspiracy theories about Fauci and Wuhan, etc…
And now we have a complete dumbass like RFK jr trying to deny Americans vaccines and push even more protein onto Americans.
JFC.
Much of the fundies’ religion originated from tent-show snake-oil merchants. They’re rubes. You can’t maintain that level of gullibility and also know how to deal with science.
In 2020 Daszak was named by the World Health Organization as the sole U.S.-based representative on a team sent to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.
An open letter co-authored by Daszak, signed by 27 scientists and published in The Lancet on 19 February 2020, stated: “We stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin…and overwhelmingly conclude that this coronavirus originated in wildlife.”
In May 2024 the United States Department of Health and Human Services suspended all federal funding for Daszak and the EHA, saying that he did not properly monitor research activities at the WIV and failed to report on their high-risk experiments. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Daszak
Americans are convinced we are one carb heavy meal away from protein deficiency starvation.
LOL, yeah.
I’m bracing for things to get even stupider in my conversations with gym bro nutritional experts that take it upon themselves to go macronutrient-splaining how I’m not going to be able to sustain myself on a diet I’ve been eating for decades, LOL.
It was already quite stupid already.
Trump probably decided to drop out when he discovered the “W” didn’t stand for White.
More likely we strayed to pseudo-science, anti-intellectualism, and “I did my own research”.
