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Aviation Pro

(15,525 posts)
Thu Mar 19, 2026, 11:05 PM 6 hrs ago

We live in the dumbest fucking timeline

In another universe, Clinton won in 2016, the U.S. is prosperous, there are less than 10 billionaires in the country, Elooooon was deported back to South Africa, universal healthcare is the law of the land, abortion rights were codified in the Constitution as an amendment, Putin was overthrown and rumored to be part of a sidewalk near Red Square, and a child rapist bag of fuck is drooling in his cell.

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We live in the dumbest fucking timeline (Original Post) Aviation Pro 6 hrs ago OP
Is there a list I can sign up on Bettie 6 hrs ago #1
You'll tell us if you find the door to that timeline, yes? electric_blue68 5 hrs ago #2
Ima gonna bed dweller 5 hrs ago #3
Well, time to finish my Multiverse-traveling machine and get the hell out of here. Dave Bowman 5 hrs ago #4
I'd Wish Upon A Million Stars BlueKota 5 hrs ago #5
heck Skittles 5 hrs ago #6
Yeah. That, too. calimary 5 hrs ago #8
Was going to post that very thing. Coventina 4 hrs ago #12
ah OK Skittles 4 hrs ago #14
lol! No, I was fully adult by 2000! Coventina 4 hrs ago #15
Well, that IS what I voted for. calimary 5 hrs ago #7
I've read a lot of alternate future timelines... diverdownjt 5 hrs ago #9
This hurts. kairos12 5 hrs ago #10
Heh jfz9580m 4 hrs ago #11
We live in the fucking dumbest COUNTRY!!! BigmanPigman 4 hrs ago #13
The SNL from 2006 where (the real) Al Gore speaks as being the president: fierywoman 4 hrs ago #16
Can we transfer to that timeline?? niyad 3 hrs ago #17

Bettie

(19,632 posts)
1. Is there a list I can sign up on
Thu Mar 19, 2026, 11:06 PM
6 hrs ago

to be on the waitlist for that timeline?

Because this one SUCKS.

Skittles

(171,463 posts)
6. heck
Thu Mar 19, 2026, 11:36 PM
5 hrs ago

imagine how much better off we would have been with Al Gore instead of that warmonger fucking POS Dubya

Coventina

(29,650 posts)
12. Was going to post that very thing.
Fri Mar 20, 2026, 12:31 AM
4 hrs ago

Heck, it happened before I was born, but I wouldn’t mind being in the timeline when JFK wasn’t assassinated.

Skittles

(171,463 posts)
14. ah OK
Fri Mar 20, 2026, 12:49 AM
4 hrs ago

at first I thought you were saying Gore/Dubya was before you were born and I immediately thought, I HAVE SHOES OLDER THAN YOU

calimary

(89,871 posts)
7. Well, that IS what I voted for.
Thu Mar 19, 2026, 11:38 PM
5 hrs ago

She would have kicked the last closed door open for women in politics.

diverdownjt

(737 posts)
9. I've read a lot of alternate future timelines...
Thu Mar 19, 2026, 11:49 PM
5 hrs ago

Where things are very different. NONE of them saw a ruling class with such incompetent buffoons that were this successful at
f##cking shit up so fast and so completely.

jfz9580m

(17,100 posts)
11. Heh
Fri Mar 20, 2026, 12:23 AM
4 hrs ago

Or back some 50 years ago people were not aggressively attacked by both a type of left and the right for espousing family planning globally and suggesting that not testing the limits to growth is good. We could have as a species chosen sustainability and homeostasis over lack of education and cheap plastic shit made in sweatshops from around the world !

Christopher Ketcham (who in combination with Yasha Levine and Adam Becker - yeah they are all white and male, but I am nonwhite, female, sterile and really mostly a marijuana plant at this point body composition wise so it all cancels out..Pauli’s Exclusion Principle!) said it was saner back then in that way:

https://ketcham99.substack.com/p/population-toxification-part-ii


We are in a society where a reality show star could launch nukes and where Zuckerberg is Prof Yan Lecun’s boss rather than a student he kicks out and gives a C- to due to a continuing refusal to cooperate with reality and paint as nutty basic logic pertaining to common sense. Prof Lecun is the only ai researcher I completely trust.

I am not white or male, but I am from a matriarchal community and solidly middleclass here in India anyway. And that is relatively privileged and I have no wish to climb, but I definitely do not want a worse bargain than the average one I had for 33 years. With EECS defrauding me during that period as well and CS generally defrauding me evidently in the last 14.5 years.

BigmanPigman

(55,080 posts)
13. We live in the fucking dumbest COUNTRY!!!
Fri Mar 20, 2026, 12:45 AM
4 hrs ago

Voters never learn from history or the errors we have made. I used to be a proud patriot. I lived in Phila. I was born on July 3rd. The 4th of July was a real celebration for me. Not any more! Thanks to the dumbest voters on Earth the USA now sucks. I am embarrassed to be an American.

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