Coal is on it’s deathbed the world over.

With the price solar and batteries are going gas is going to be dead very soon in places that don’t have European winter solar potential.

There an element of personal freedom which people find important.

I never realised how much people want to be controlled by the government when I was younger.

This is fucked.

“But the government wants to ban something I don’t like! That’s good. They should stop others doing things I don’t like!”

The mistakes of the soviet empire really did ask get repaid in the 90s and that did such.

But for a lot of countries that was a great time that they finally got free from Russia.

I know there is a bit Internet belief that starship troopers is fascist but I’m not convinced.

Everyone is equal, free healthcare and education.They have an entry to vote so admittedly not everyone gets a vote. But absolutely anyone can choose to serve their government and by serving you automatically get a vote. Tbh I think there are arguments for that system. Once you get citizenship the system is completely democratic. They have propaganda but it is total war and which democracy hasn’t had propaganda during total war?

The book goes into it more and the book is a lot more serious and less campy. Verhoeven did try to twist it as much as possible which lost a lot but he still made a really entertaining movie.

Republic of Ireland?

For most of the west and a lot of countries in Asia. Things were good.

Remember the glory that was 90’s optimism.

30 years later I thought we would live in a better 90’s.

Instead we live in a really shit future that’s worse than even the 90s.