Seriously. With the amount of anger regarding the Epstein files, I have zero confidence that real consequences will be paid by the perpetrators and those who looked away. I've even less hope in justice for the victims...

I really need some hope in this. Please. 😞

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ameancow 15 points 8 months ago

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GlassHalfHopeful 6 points 8 months ago

When one focuses on the whole, they can see the positive progression of humanity. It is indeed better than ever. Humans are living longer and healthier and with more dignity than before. But... it's much too slow. I've only this single life. We truly are capable of so much more... if we really wanted.

It's too bad I wasn't born much later. I'd like to see humanity at its best. But I suppose there's just as much chance that we'll obliterate ourselves.

There is very little I can affect and experience in my lifetime, and so I will do with my time what I might. But goodness, there are some hard days... and years.

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ameancow 2 points 8 months ago

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GlassHalfHopeful 1 point 8 months ago

Probably the reason I rewatch so much Star Trek. I love seeing what humanity is capable of.

(Yes, I still read/watch dystopic and apocalyptic stories, but I've been doing this less and less because it's honestly depressing when I look at society today and realize this seems to be where we're heading instead).

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snowdrop 2 points 8 months ago

I want to believe that is true, but meanwhile biosphere collapse is getting ready to assrape our civilization. Things are about to get feral.

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ameancow 3 points 8 months ago

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yermaw 4 points 8 months ago

They wont suffer in life. Most of them will be brushed under the carpet, and history will forget them. That doesnt sound like much of a consequence, but these are people who had the chance to leave a lasting legacy for being great, but in 100 years realistically only a small handful will enter the history books and it will be as villains.

Not even a "good" villain like Hitler, who despite the evil had a good shot at conquering the world.

If I had a chance to be remembered as a great leader, or a super philanthropist, or being Iron Man, or even a supervillain, and instead my legacy is to be completely forgotten by the world at large and my existence actively attempted to be covered up by anyone I ever had dealings with, I'd be a bit mortally upset.

Its not much to hang onto, and we can still hope and pray they face justice in life, and we can hope for a morality-based afterlife so they may face justice in death, but they will at least face justice in the history books.

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GlassHalfHopeful 2 points 8 months ago

Unfortunately, I won't care what the history books will say because I will long be dead and forgotten as well.

I cannot hope in the hereafter because there simply is no plausible basis for such, as nice as the thought of justice in the hereafter would be.

No. If there is justice to be had, it would need to be in this lifetime to be considered such. Anything less is our failing of today.

sighs Such a crummy species we can be. The only thing I can hold on to is the fact that human progress has trended towards the better and hopefully it will continue that direction (presuming we don't obliterate ourselves). It's too bad I won't be around to see that.

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SocialMediaRefugee 2 points 8 months ago

Pardons across the board

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trongod_requiem0432 6 points 8 months ago

It's unfathomable to me how that guy did not get impeached and is still running the country. U.S. Americans do nothing to rebel. They even still do their regular orders on his buddy's Bezos Amazon store pages.

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Proprietary_Blend -40 points 8 months ago

So brave

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U7826391786239 23 points 8 months ago

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Proprietary_Blend -24 points 8 months ago

I hate this timeline

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