Celebrating unjust wars of aggression usually isn’t a good look, regardless of the spoils…even when they offer a delicious dose of schadenfreude at your political enemy’s expense.

Nah they like shooting cans.

Ya know. Mexi-cans, Domini-cans, Puerto Ri-cans?

This is an interesting perspective. I kinda like it, even though I hate it.

It’s really amazing how many people knew that they were destroying the world…and not only continued to do so, but accelerated it and covered it all up…just to see their wallets get fatter.

Kinda just makes you want to accelerate the decline faster. “Intelligent” life my ass.

Edit to add: remember the villains in Captain Planet? They were over-the-top cartoonishly evil, even for a cartoon. But I’m starting to think they were closer to reality than I wanted to believe.

Also there were some cool as actors among those villains. Dean Stockwell, Tim Curry, Jeff Goldblum…and then the regulars like Jim Cummings and John Ratzenberger…just a cool cast)

This is fascinating and the way you plan to weave science-fact into science-fiction reminds me a lot of Crichton.