[fnordpiglet]

Future me would have a really high quality EV with an amazing charging network, clean air and water, a habitable planet for my grand children, no domestic political extrajudicial paramilitary surveilling everyone with megawarehouse detention cities everywhere, outright ideological warfare against urban areas, etc.

We had a choice between Star Trek future world and Blade Runner+MadMax+Idiocracy, and we predictably chose the one we deserve because memes and a podcast.

[Schmerika]

> because memes and a podcast.

What a weird thing to say, after we spent 20+ trillion dollars on a bipartisan war on terror.

More than enough to make America's energy 100% renewable, feed the planet, house every American, and so much else.

Instead we made Dick Cheney's friends a lot of money, killed a couple million innocent people, and sat on the Epstein files for decades.

Which part of all that are you blaming on memes and a podcast?