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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

most of the usa infrastructure, physical, intellectual, etc was built as a product of the cold war.

and we started viciously neglecting it in the 1980s, as the end of that war was becoming obvious