early 2020's rule

FauxPseudo, 5 months ago

Every day we get a step closer to the Bell Riots.

A friend and I have tickets booked to be in San Francisco the first week of September. We don’t know what we will do there but we will be there to support Gabriel Bell.

GuyFleegman, 5 months ago

We are absolutely worse off in the real 2024 than what “Past Tense” depicted.

• Vin asks Sisko for a “UHC card” when trying to identify him. A universal healthcare card. In the real 2024? Still no universal healthcare in the US.
• The famous billionaire’s role in the story of “Past Tense” was to get residents of the districts access to “the nets” to tell their story. In the real 2024, Elon Musk would just take to Xitter and advocate for crackdowns.
• Once on the nets, the resident’s stories actually swayed public opinion. Can you honestly imagine the stories they told making a dent in the zeitgeist, even if they trended on YouTube and TikTok?
• Sanctuary districts exist too, they’re just on the border and privatized.

Ira Steven Behr set out to depict a horribly dystopic 2024, succeeded, and undershot.

conditional_soup, 5 months ago

Star Trek writers batting 1000 so far, please please please let them be wrong about the nuclear horror.

Sanctus, 5 months ago

Can’t you feel it? The threads of global tension snapping with a deafening blast? The ravenous chantings of Mars cutting through the ambient noise?

DigitalTraveler42, 5 months ago

Mars, where you go to die of cancer while under the rule of a racist narcissistic libertarian billionaire with a savior complex, and his Nazi buddies.

Sounds fun, pass.

Gormadt, 5 months ago

NGL I’d rather die on Earth than Mars

This is the cradle of humanity

This is our first home

This too will be our grave if we do not change our ways

Zehzin, 5 months ago

The Irish Unification should happen this year. Tiocfaidh ár lá.