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superfund site? more like super-fun site, amirite?
well for a lot of people i think it's just that their worldbuilding is aimed at creating a good/fun/cool story so causality isn't all that important to begin with. like the magical kingdom of floating islands or whatever, nobody needs to especially care about verisimilitude. but then as you play it out it's hard not to at least notice the contradictions that develop from whatever you've created.
yeah the worldbuilding to dialectic materialism pipeline is underappreciated
joe biden is the only person on the planet earth capable of defeating trump in a fair electoral and pushup contest. it was true in 2016, it was true in 2020, and it's just as true today!
steam/solarpunk third internationalist libyan revival while america descends into deeper levels of cyberpunk ultra-capitalist dystopia would make for a poetic 2nd quarter of the 21st century if nothing else
ah but they're minding their own business in a very sinister and conniving way
6, today is definitely a "beak and lips" kind of day
to add to @riseuppikmin@hexbear.net's answer, pennsylvania in 2016 was doing relatively well for pennsylvania historically. the 00s oversaw a fair amount of economic revitalization especially for pittsburgh as it developed a modern healthcare industry that provided residents with job opportunities they hadn't seen since the steel mills shut down in the late 70s. philadelphia is more of a finance hub and benefited from low interest rates. the opioid crisis and pandemic greatly stressed the healthcare system, pennsylvania rural hospitals were especially unprepared for covid. that's true everywhere, but i get the sense pa got hit worse than most in that regard and because so much of their recent economic renewal depended on the healthcare industry and low interest debt, now the whole state is feeling like it's the 80s again last time i was through. the dems have offered nothing except "not trump" and scolding, which doesn't sit well with the confederate-flag waving denizens of the vast stretches of sparsely populated karst forests known colloquially as "pennsyltucky" in between pittsburgh and philadelphia.
they will complain loudly about his incompetence and unwillingness to wag is finger vigorously enough at bibi while they continue signing the checks for more bombs
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