A lot of their willingness to pay the political price of the civil rights and anti-poverty policies had to with the Cold War competition btw capitalism and communism as societal models. Racial inequality and poverty were America's two major failings, and the USSR never failed to hammer that home.

Sigh. Maybe it's an AI-slop fake, but the that's just a different aspect of why this timeline sucks... Either way 😭

This is even better: household electricity bills are lowest in the net zero scenario, basically everywhere.

Of course they are: buying fossil fuels and burning them is obscenely expensive and unreliable and requires constant, expensive support

also in the culture almost literally everyone is trans by current standards. changing your gender is easy and it's weird if you've never done it.

Again, media literacy seems to have dropped through the floor

"Apocalypse Now, the triumphant story of US military success"

Collaboration and cooperation are foundations of human development. But we force our species’ story to fit one of relentless competition, because a certain sort of dickhead likes that version. Probably because they can exploit it, and declare themselves a Magic King. Ridiculous.