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We have forked off from the darkest timeline into its stupidest.
I like that your optimism separated the two
For now, until they pull request it back to the dark timeline
Changes Requested
Let's put them back together:
"Like Idiocracy, only less fun"
Well it's a fork. So it's technically got all of the darkest timeline up to the point they added the extreme stupidity patch.
There will be a merge PR soon enough.
The fact that we have incompetent evil instead of competent evil is what keeps me getting up to face the day in the morning. These guys having an IQ that could freeze nitrogen means that we, the people, have a slim chance to avoid total annihilation. It could be very much worse than it is.
This way adds the additional danger vector of traumatic brain injury due to repeated and forceful facepalming, but I'd rather that over intelligent evil in the white house. The one saving grace of Trump & Co is that they're all dumb as a box of rocks and are incapable of flexing their power fully. I'm upset that the president of the USA is retarded, but I'm thankful that this president in particular is the retarded one.
What if the president is not the top of the power pyramid but only there for distraction?
Stupid malice is still malice.