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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9810894" data-attributes="member: 18">I feel like the original article is just wrong because, even just totally ignoring politics and anything a politician from anywhere did or said, the last 5 years are so insanely stupid, that time travel kind of has to exist, and has to being used to mess with us by jerks from the future. Like, I instinctively don't buy that the "no time travel" timeline is also the "absolutely stupidest possible timeline". Particularly if we just look at the decisions and obsessions of billionaires and in general the people with all the money over the last 5-10 years (especially the last 5), it's been absolutely demented, and continues to get worse (and again, this is ignoring politics!). Just incredibly rich people making huge, huge mistakes, that only don't take them out because the other rich idiots are bailing them out/have rigged the system to prevent that, essentially. People with tens and hundreds of billions obsessed about multiple conspiracy theories that a fifteen-year-old from 1993 (or now, even, probably) would correctly say "That's kind of a childish idea, dude" about. People spending tens of billions because they're mad about something meaningless - not to help people, not to raise up humanity or even just their country or city (like honestly even some awful ultra-rich people did in the past), not even really to further to some evil and cunning plan, just because they've got an insane bee in their bonnet about something super-dumb and that's not even true or prima facie plausible. And it's not just one guy either! It's dozens of guys. I feel like to get that many absolute idiots in charge of that much money you kind of need time travel. Someone is doing a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travelers_(TV_series)" target="_blank">Travelers</a> to us to try and screw things up as badly as possible!To me this isn't plausible as "what happens when there's no time travel", but it's very plausible as "what happens when a lot of people have messed with the timeline to try and make it worse". I'm reminded of The Guns of The South by Harry Turtledove.I'm not putting this forth as logical or rational position, note, this is vibes, and it ain't nothing but vibes. But that's essence of the 2020s, eh?</blockquote>

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