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Jun 9, 2022 8:58 PM
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DecimusMagnus
You got your universes mixed up. It's 1984 vs reality.
prichp
Both are fictitious. Humanism has taken us to this place. Anything goes. No wrong, no right. Chaos is the only possible outcome.
Procrastinator57
This isn’t the Terran universe ?
Zreen
Probably closer to between Firefly future and Handmaid's Dune future
dborel04198888
And Handmaids Tale is winning
SithElephant
Yeah, sorry, now due to the Overton window kicking in hard, it's now the Handsmaid's tale, or Hunger Games.
bleggs
I agree that the republicans are fascists but I think you're giving the democrats too much credit here lol
Mumalot
"To infinity and beyond... or let them eat cake"
obviouslyrob
The 21st century in Star Trek went pretty much as well as the real one has been going.
paintingagency
I'm a little worried that while the Star Trek future is possible, we have to suffer a few decades/centuries of the other one before it.
bolinotoyou
I'd also accept Battlestar Galactica as a consolation
majorityrob
Fingers crossed its Shatners Star Trek
OdinYggd
Except you aren't getting either one. We're actually headed for Galaxy Express 999, at a disturbingly rapid pace.
lAmGnomeAnn
nolite te bastardes carborundorum and praise be bitches
SXSam
Those that want to coexist fairly. Those that don't. It's all it's ever been.
ps238principal
I think they heard "gay space communism" and panicked.
RobinCaged
like we could EVER have what Star Trek has.
iamoftenwrong
If only a Star Trek future. It's between Blade Runner and The Handmaid's Tale.
theBasilisker
star trek celebrates the sharing of cultures and yet some restaurants get cancelled for making food from another country while being white..
LastoftheLillyCreatures
Nope, it isn't. You're fooling yourself if you think that democrats (or local equivalent) will bring a fully automated luxury communism. 1/2
LastoftheLillyCreatures
And just to not be ambivalent here: I'm far left. 2/2
commentsivehadafew
The people working towards The Handmaids Tale have never read or seen it
DemonDarakna
Actually it often shows that they read it, but not as a cautionary tale but as a manual. Happened the same with 1984 by Orwell.
frakkingcylon
They did read it, and it gave them a boner
Lovingimpaler
Cautionary tales of fascism are not popular with authoritarians. They like to ban those.
TheMouseOfMadness
they have a habit of not actually reading the books they love the most
navagon
Who are you underestimating right now? The sociopathic mindset of the ruling class or how brainwashed their voters are?
WolfRexV3
Yes
Technotoad64
FartsSmellBad
Little optimistic on the Star Trek thing
Frederf
No, it's not
StoneTalon
Yeah it'll probably be more like Firefly.
Patch870
Yeah where the hell is this supposed Utopia coming from? lol
tlamstrike
From the convicts and EMHs working the dilithium mines, dilithim that fuels the starships that fight the Klingons, so they can explore①
tlamstrike
strange new worlds, that are exploited for dilithium, which fuels the starships that fights the Romulans...②
navagon
Before you go getting excited about a Star Trek future, remember it began with a global thermonuclear war in the not too distant future.
TheOldSchoolisBack
Don’t go getting my hopes up
zealabyrinth
And that no one in power wants it.
T0go
27 years of global war that spiral into a thermonuclear exchange, followed by the early 2060s "post-atomic horror"
SpacemaniaXu
Yeah, it took a few more genocides before reaching utopia
TopherE
Seems accurate
Ink41d0
Given the amount of idiot/s***stains we can trick into staying outside the bomb shelter because "muh freedumbs", is this really a bad thing?
jediknightswhosayni
Quite frankly I'm psyched about the not too distant future and being forced to watch cheesey movies with my robot friends.
tlamstrike
whatdidyoureallyexpect
And a new Dark Age.
ps238principal
We seem to be short on genetically enhanced madmen, just the usual old, pasty, flabby ones.
ionicseraph
If given a choice, I'll take Khan over Trump
Rawmeat95
Humanity progress only through blood and iron.
FartsSmellBad
starts in 2026, not to unreasonable in today's climate
ionicseraph
And the party won't stop till 2053
DukeDarkwood
And in 2024, we have the Sisk-- the Bell Riots.
StanielRonathan
We'll know for sure if Ireland reunifies in 2024, also just around the corner.
ferocat
I mean… sin fein is gaining political power in both the North & South so not too out there
plainoldfool
Brexit might be speeding up the process