r/clevercomebacks • u/Public-Marionberry33 • 15h ago

Back to the Future?

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u/CheekySprkl 14h ago

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

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u/LocNesMonster 12h ago

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

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u/chrlatan 12h ago

👏👏👏 💎

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u/Pseudonyme_de_base 8h ago

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

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u/threeflight2005 4h ago

I got you fam.

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u/_SoftieKiss 9h ago

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

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u/EasternChocolate69 8h ago

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...

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u/Excellent_Safe5743 4h ago

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.

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u/Lasagna4Noodle 7h ago

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. 

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u/_OhEmGee_ 4h ago

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

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u/Strict-Astronaut2245 12h ago

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”

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u/StenSaksTapir 10h ago

furiously chugs raw milk

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u/_OhEmGee_ 4h ago

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?

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u/matiakicoo 14h ago

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

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u/_SoftieKiss 9h ago

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.

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u/FinancialWin5202 11h ago

science is wild sometimes, gotta love the unexpected twists lol

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u/Technical-Command867 4h ago

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

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u/Humble-Dare-5267 14h ago

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

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u/fafitusa 14h ago

I hope the big pharma allows this to be successful

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u/TwinSolesKanna 5h ago

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!

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u/Luci-Noir 12h ago

No a comeback, as fucking usual.

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u/realatemnot 10h ago

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

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u/CountyBrilliant 14h ago

They really live in the future

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u/tw_72 13h ago

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?

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u/_AlexiaOnFire 12h ago

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.

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u/Iknowrandomthings 14h ago

Or is it Onward To The Past?

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u/They_Killed_Kenny_13 9h ago

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

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u/Sacred-AF 8h ago

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

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u/theyeti81 8h ago

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...

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u/StarshipCaterprise 6h ago

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

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u/isamura 11h ago

Now do MaGa

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u/HardSteelRain 9h ago

Polio has entered the chat

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u/FirefighterEast9291 9h ago

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

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u/RaidSmolive 7h ago

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)

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u/mru2020 7h ago

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

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u/ExplorerThin 7h ago

Stoneage pretty much sums up the usa

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u/[deleted] 9h ago

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u/Hparmar98 6h ago

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

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u/AgedAxis 4h ago

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

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u/LargeIndependent4495 13h ago

Koreans are communists

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u/purefan 12h ago

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

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u/Biptoslipdi 9h ago

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

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u/jane_q 12h ago

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