Nobody is happy with the way things are going - even the biggest MAGA followers. Trump was the final nail in the coffin, and, there is no way this will ever turn around.
Everything is bleak and depressing now. Third places are gone or going away. Everything looks sterile, grey, and boring. Workers' rights are eroding to the point that hours are creeping up, nobody will be able to retire in the future, and, jobs will be increasingly scarce, giving employers all the power. A good number of young men (and some young women) are being addicted to bullshit like "Draft Kings" or "Kalshi prediction markets" that syphon their money to the billionaire class and keep them poor. Ads are everywhere - probably soon even in the sky with drones. Everything is a fucking scam, and, no one will own anything (and everything will be rented, to further syphon money from the poor to the billionaire class).
We're destroying the environment and our national parks - probably with data centers and nuclear powerplants spammed everywhere for "AI," which is consistently as dumb as a box of rocks. We're supposed to pretend that progress is happening, even though society is disintegrating before our very eyes, and, perpetually needy, broken fucking losers like Donald Trump and Elon Musk have all the power now and demand our attention 24/7.
American society is an absolute joke now. I remember how hopeful everyone was about the future, with cool new technologies coming out that seemed to improve our lives. It's hard to believe this is the world we have now.
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