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[–] ZagamTheVile@lemmy.world 44 points 10 months ago (3 children)

To see my enemies crushed. To see them driven before me. And to see more hybrid and electric vehicles on the road.

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 38 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I want to see less vehicles on roads.

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago (3 children)

More walkability / bikability and public transit would be great!

[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 10 months ago

Bring on the lamentations of the fossil fuel executives

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[–] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 months ago

Well, you could always close your eyes

[–] bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 7 points 10 months ago

We also would have accepted the lamentations of their women.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago

Genghis, we've talked about this before: you can't snap arrows and push EV's at the same time -- there needs to be a transition period.

[–] lets_get_off_lemmy@reddthat.com 34 points 10 months ago

That we're able to dodge the incoming wave of fascism and peacefully skim board into progressive politics.

[–] WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world 30 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The US Government will remove their heads from their asses and work on fixing things before it's too late.

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ideally by regulating the shit out of corporations, and dismantling fraudulent 501(c)(3)s like the Heritage Foundation.

[–] WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Just having better options for the next presidential election would be a step in the right direction.

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Hopefully more states start to heavily push the Alternative or Ranked Choice voting systems.

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 9 points 10 months ago

There are entrenched entities heavily invested, literally and figuratively, in aligning the government with their interests, and against the interests of the majority. Their primary methods are propagandizing the gullible to vote for the representatives they have invested in, and fomenting apathy in those they cannot propagandize.

The solution is two-fold: supporting candidates aligned with your interests throughout their career from local elections up to more powerful ones, and voting in every election for the front-runner who is less detrimental to those interests.

If you think the current government has their heads in their asses, it's a good bet that this two-fold solution takes the form of voting for progressives in local elections and greater primaries, and showing up to vote for whichever of the front-runner candidates is comparatively more progressive.

Voting for a candidate that is progressive but vastly unlikely to win is counterproductive. Not voting because none of the likely candidates is sufficiently progressive is counterproductive.

If everyone understood this, and showed up to vote, within a few election cycles we'd have a government composed of un-assed heads.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 10 months ago

Everyone moving to open protocols and companies like Reddit, Twitter, Meta going bankrupt

[–] InputZero@lemmy.ml 19 points 10 months ago

The people in power actually taking climate change seriously, and not just in a tragedy of the commons type of way. I mean actually working together to slow it down or reverse it.

[–] rustyfish@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Proof for extraterrestrial life. It doesn’t have to be aliens in spaceships or even a transmission. I would be fine with microscopic organisms on Ganymede or Europa.

[–] Thavron@lemmy.ca 12 points 10 months ago (4 children)

As long as it's not on Phoebe...

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[–] Trollivier@sh.itjust.works 15 points 10 months ago

Universal basic income. Everywhere.

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 15 points 10 months ago

I hope to see my own financial stability in the future. I hope things change for the better and there are lots and lots of job openings for people, no more recessions.

[–] Thavron@lemmy.ca 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If we could harness fusion power in the near future that would be neat.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm here to make a flippant sarcastic comment about us already having fusion, and that all we need is enough solar panels to capture it. I thank you for your time, and yes I will go eff myself.

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Thank you for acknowledging that comment is inappropriate for a hope thread, regardless of how correct it may be.

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[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 14 points 10 months ago (5 children)

For my life to have worth.

[–] henfredemars 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don’t know you or your situation, stranger, but it can happen as soon as you’re ready.

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I'm ready but I've also been waiting.

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[–] sgibson5150@slrpnk.net 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

At this point, every day above ground is a good day.

[–] Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago

Yeah but someone's gotta mine that coal

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago (3 children)

The Star Trek timeline, I just want a holodeck, but they just keep hawking this VR/AR crap :(

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

If you knew what came next in the ST timeline, you would not wish for it

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[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 9 points 10 months ago

a easy and stress free retirement

[–] ItsComplicated@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Finally winning the lottery!!

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 10 points 10 months ago

Just remember: 99% of gamblers quit just before they win big!

[–] UNY0N@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Star Trek, minus the teleporters.

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[–] z00s@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Trump die

Edit: Oh shi-

[–] crmsnbleyd@sopuli.xyz 6 points 10 months ago

Industrial use of oil and coal goes poof

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 6 points 10 months ago

Not dying in a food riot.

[–] BallsandBayonets@lemmings.world 6 points 10 months ago

A decline in my cynicism that is caused by factual occurrences in reality.

[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 5 points 10 months ago

Liberty and justice for all.

And soft lavatory paper.

[–] ChihuahuaOfDoom@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

I hope I have a heart attack in my late 40s or early 50s so I don't have to experience much of the future.

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 5 points 10 months ago

Elon Musk has an interview and just...explodes.

[–] Corno@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

Ending world hunger and finding a cure for cancer and other currently uncurable diseases.

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