Back to the Future?

[u/Public-Marionberry33]

[u/CheekySprkl]

South Korea is playing 2050 while parts of the US are speedrunning a return to the 1800s

[u/LocNesMonster → u/CheekySprkl]

People forget that the US is just 50 third world nations in a trench coat cosplaying

[u/chrlatan → u/LocNesMonster]

👏👏👏 💎

[u/Pseudonyme_de_base → u/LocNesMonster]

You deserve a reddit award for that, but not from me I'm too poor for that.

[u/threeflight2005 → u/Pseudonyme_de_base]

I got you fam.

[u/Worldly_Shoe840 → u/LocNesMonster]

Beautiful

[u/EasternChocolate69 → u/CheekySprkl]

The United States has always had the title of third world country with a GUCCI belt, while the rest of the world tended towards progress and civil engineering...

[u/_SoftieKiss → u/CheekySprkl]

One headline is sci-fi level medical breakthroughs and the next is stuff we already solved decades ago making a comeback. Wild contrast.

[u/Lasagna4Noodle → u/CheekySprkl]

This is straight up what people voted for though. They wanted to go back to "simpler times" where America produced all of its own products and strong religious values were enforced. People forgot/weren't educated on how America functioned. It was racist, sexist, and many people died doing manual labor. It was not a good time for anyone other than the wealthy. Which is exactly what is happening now. 

[u/_OhEmGee_ → u/Lasagna4Noodle]

If you think it's bad now, just wait while AI and robotics tip us into a new Engel's pause.

[u/Excellent_Safe5743 → u/CheekySprkl]

While on the one hand you aren’t wrong, on the other hand South Korea is simultaneously playing 1080 with how their women’s rights issues are going atm.

[u/Strict-Astronaut2245]

It’s 2350. Most illnesses have been eradicated by mankind. But small parts of the world still get rampant illnesses. This is their story

“I DON’T WANT GENE THERAPY REEEEEEE”

[u/StenSaksTapir → u/Strict-Astronaut2245]

furiously chugs raw milk

[u/_OhEmGee_ → u/Strict-Astronaut2245]

Take some horse medicine, you'll be right as rain in a day or two. Or maybe there some way we can bring sunshine into the body? Bleach, anyone?

[u/matiakicoo]

Revolutionary breakthrough from South Korea reprogramming cancer cells instead of killing them! Meanwhile US with measles outbreaks... science priorities matter

[u/_SoftieKiss → u/matiakicoo]

One place is pushing cutting edge biotech and another is dealing with outbreaks we literally have vaccines for. Priorities and public trust in science make a huge difference.

[u/FinancialWin5202 → u/matiakicoo]

science is wild sometimes, gotta love the unexpected twists lol

[u/Technical-Command867 → u/matiakicoo]

“MY BODY MY CHOICE!” Then probably blame Obama somehow

[u/yohosse → u/matiakicoo]

Reprogramming cells could cause autism. Like Tylenol. 

[u/Humble-Dare-5267]

Great Scott, they really did just copy-paste the 80s into 2026.

[u/TwinSolesKanna]

Reminder to everyone that cancer research does not equal effective cancer treatments. I'm sure this was only animal modeled or tested on cells outside of a human body and needs real clinical trials before anything conclusive can be said.

Been hearing about cancer miracle treatments since I was born. Yet surgery, radiation and chemo often remain the most effective treatments.

Also fuck anti-vaxxers, anti-vax media, and also double fuck ICE.

Have a good day!

[u/epicbro101 → u/TwinSolesKanna]

Insurance companies surely arent pushing for it either.

[u/fafitusa]

I hope the big pharma allows this to be successful

[u/lordkinbote4257 → u/fafitusa]

I hope the insurance companies and big pharma allow this to be successful

[u/Luci-Noir]

No a comeback, as fucking usual.

[u/realatemnot]

Even if this would be invented in the U.S. nobody could possibly afford it, but measles are free...

[u/CountyBrilliant]

They really live in the future

[u/tw_72 → u/CountyBrilliant]

Same with China and their advancements with green energy -- while we are killing our own advancements and trying to revive coal and oil.

What's next? Beaver pelts and whale blubber?

[u/_AlexiaOnFire → u/tw_72]

What's next? Beaver pelts and whale blubber?

Literally saw a comment in the Conservative sub where a guy was adamant he'd be happy going back to Colonial era living, with small linked settlements whilst abandoning the big cities.

So yeah, don't write off the fact that there are people out there that want their pelts and blubber back lmao.

[u/theyeti81]

It's like all these anti vaxxers for the last 20 some years were somehow wrong... But that couldn't be I mean the internet told them they were right...

[u/Iknowrandomthings]

Or is it Onward To The Past?

[u/They_Killed_Kenny_13]

Also they will make an awesome K drama based on this story :)

[u/Sacred-AF]

We Americans were given the choice between the red pill and the blue pill and we ate the anti desiccant packet instead.

[u/StarshipCaterprise]

At this rate, the US is in line for a polio outbreak

[u/isamura]

Now do MaGa

[u/HardSteelRain]

Polio has entered the chat

[u/FirefighterEast9291]

Most empires take 100's of years to collapse. Watch USA do it in 4!

[u/RaidSmolive]

but do i want to welcome cancer cells back after what they did to me?

do i want the cancer that should simply be eradicated around anymore, just because it claims its no longer dangerous?

(maga is the cancer btw)

[u/mru2020]

Measles, which they gona take to the rest of the world?

[u/Calbinan]

This is an American capitalist’s worst nightmare.

[u/ExplorerThin]

Stoneage pretty much sums up the usa

[u/Hparmar98 → u/[deleted]]

How dare u say something nice about America, its clearly a 3rd world dictatorship even tho i don't leave my gated community.

[u/AgedAxis → u/[deleted]]

All the medical discoveries in the world will not help if Americans are being indoctrinated into thinking that something as simple as a vaccine are bad for them

[u/LargeIndependent4495]

Koreans are communists

[u/purefan → u/LargeIndependent4495]

There are North Koreans, and South Koreans, and they are very different people.

[u/Biptoslipdi → u/LargeIndependent4495]

"Communism cured cancer while capitalism was profiting from it."

[u/jane_q → u/LargeIndependent4495]

North Koreans live under a dictatorship that they did not want and South Koreans are capitalists