Originally Posted by
Still Alive
It's all about timing to me. You can say the world is ending for 50 years and when it happens 40 years later it just doen't seem as impressive. What annoys me about the right is how Trump stormed the Capitol and lied that the election is rigged but now he wins and it's alright again, or how the right abuses AI, social media, propaganda to manipulate the public, not to help them, but to simply grab power, or how Oligarchs and Billionaires now want to decide what's best for everyone. You think CEO's of giant cooperations are leftists or the Military Industrial Complex? But what's happening now transcends left and right, as every person that isn't rich should want healthcare. I've been healthy my whole life and still got a weird disease due to genetic lottery, it can happen to everyone. My hope is this shifts towards rich vs. poor. Even if we don't get an immediate revolution, the curtain has been lifted for just a brief moment and that's enough for people to recognize it's all an illusion, that the people in power do not worry about things that the average person worries about, so how could they represent them? It also brings people together. Suddely the right/left-wing asshole you have avoided for years has the same view as you, has some health issue he/she struggled with just like you, and suddenly you feel sympathy instead of hate. Imagine treatment was denied to you because some flawed AI decided you shouldn't receive it and the guy who programmed that benefited from it. It's beyond evil for any sane person that doesn't live in a bubble that views poor people as animals.