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Opinion: Trump wins 2024 election. America needs to admit it's not 'better than this.'
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I used to give the collective 'us' the benefit of the doubt and assume we're just stupid, not evil.
After 4 years of Trump + all the Nazi shit he's said since, he did even better than he did the first time. People aren't ignorant to all that, they fucking love it.
We need to hurry up and go extinct and hope some critter rises from the ashes and evolves to be less of a collective sack of shit.
I for one welcome our horseshoe crab overlords. Tardigrades would be a very cool second choice, but they're probably too busy being the perfect organism to give a shit about taking over the planet.
Tardigrades are definitely resilient enough for a solid shot at it.
Less realistically (since whatever wipes us out will also wipe them out) if we wanted to bring it a bit closer to home, I'd be rooting for the orangutans, which are chill as fuck. IIRC we evolved from chimpanzees, which are angry face-eaty little fuckers, which honestly explains a lot of today's bullshit when you consider that as our foundation.
A 'humanity' that branched out from orangutans and progressed to the technological equivalent to where we're at now... we'd be looking at a legit utopia.
If history weren't such an asshole, that first mutant chimp that went on to become whatever the fuck the world is doing now... would have just gotten eaten by a crocodile or something after taking its first steps, and the planet lives happily ever after.