Everyday I'm more convinced that this timeline is a very shitty parody of some sort
this post was submitted on 16 Jul 2025
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I can clear that up for you. We are in the absolute worst sort of very shitty parody. Those of us in the US who are sane deserve an Airplane!-caliber parody, and instead we’ve been given Fatal Instinct.
Hell I'd take Hot Shots or Top Secret!
If you consider how the Xeelee Sequence views time travel, you could be right.
Suppose the possibility that time travelers come back in time to change the past, but their enemies can do the same thing. If opposing factions decide to fight in a particular theater of war, their actions will eventually result in a polished, stabilized timeline. It is possible that none of the factions could get what they original wanted from the engagement, but all the countermeasures the factions put in during the battle will prevent any further notable change.
Therefore, we are in a world where anyone who tried to change our present time to what they want most likely didn't succeed. Hence, a shitty parody of the original timeline.
Or, to get the world to do something about the major issues affecting the future they needed to convince enough people that change is required by setting up this absolute shit show, so once it gets bad enough we will have some kind of reckoning and then a new age of enlightenment. The only question is, how much of a shit show will we see before the reckoning and will we be able to recover ..
maybe it's more aware than I thought.
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