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This technology is going to cure cancer someday. Too bad we won't get to use it. The FDA just killed 'future you'.

Future me would have a really high quality EV with an amazing charging network, clean air and water, a habitable planet for my grand children, no domestic political extrajudicial paramilitary surveilling everyone with megawarehouse detention cities everywhere, outright ideological warfare against urban areas, etc.

We had a choice between Star Trek future world and Blade Runner+MadMax+Idiocracy, and we predictably chose the one we deserve because memes and a podcast.

> because memes and a podcast.

What a weird thing to say, after we spent 20+ trillion dollars on a bipartisan war on terror.

More than enough to make America's energy 100% renewable, feed the planet, house every American, and so much else.

Instead we made Dick Cheney's friends a lot of money, killed a couple million innocent people, and sat on the Epstein files for decades.

Which part of all that are you blaming on memes and a podcast?

Biontech, the one that had the first mrna vaccine, has a bunch of phase 3 trials this year, and they're all about curing cancer - it's literally how they're using all of the covid vaccine revenue, as funding for that endeavor.[1]

1 https://european-biotechnology.com/latest-news/2026-a-year-o...

I can't find a specific source right now, but I remember reading that RFK's war on mRNA vaccines only applies the ones used for flu/Covid. They haven't gone after cancer vaccines.

This press release seems to confirm this: https://biontechse.gcs-web.com/news-releases/news-release-de...

"Moderna curbing investments in vaccine trials due to US backlash, CEO tells Bloomberg TV"

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...

Those are for immunization against viruses. They're not the same kind of vaccine that will be used to cure many types of cancer.

So we should feel better about this? And watch as Europe gets better vaccines? Apparently COVID and Flu vaccines have many health benefits. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-02-analysis-links-flu-va...

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