• FreakinSteve@lemmy.world
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    Conservatism has dragged America fifty years behind in tech progress and wasted all of our resources on destruction over building. I wish this country would get fucking NUKED. America is a dismal failure on every level

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      Describe the 50 years of tech progress that we’ve lost or you’re full of shit.

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        We could be driving electric cars and having solar panels everywhere.

        We could be having the fastest wifi network.

        We could have high speed trains.

        Medical advances as well. I don’t even want to go into the vaccine territory.

        All of those things were considered problematic by the old guard, who conservatives supported. One side continues to protect the yacht owning class. Conservatives would still be fighting marijuana if the rest of the population didn’t tell them to fuck off.

        And if you think this is all wishy-washy speculation, get the fuck out of America for a minute and look around the rest of the world. American cities are no where near other international cities in terms of living, quality, tech, support. You have to be dumb as fuck to not recognize how often Conservatives vote against tech initiatives to line their own pockets.

      • ToucheGoodSir@lemy.lol
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        Ehh looking at semi conductor & solar panel production I see what this persons saying. “Losing 50 years of tech progress” isn’t quite accurate definitely, however the US has decayed its tech lead compared to the space race era, for example.

      • ifItWasUpToMe@lemmy.ca
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        The thing about losing progress is you can’t know where you would be if priorities were different.

        If the same amount of passion and resources was poured into the space program for the last 50 years as it was during the moon landing we would certainly be much further ahead, but no one would be able to tell you where would we be.

        How do expect someone to describe something that hasn’t been invented yet?

        • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.world
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          The thing about losing progress is you can’t know where you would be if priorities were different.

          There are some cases where you can know where you’d be if priorities were different. Hence the most frustrating graph in the world: