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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] [email protected] 130 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I really hope the pendulum swings the other way in the future and we become the most Woke society imaginable.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 day ago (5 children)

It won't. To do so will require checks community instance server really big peaceful marches and flag waving.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago

I think it could be accomplished with a MarioKart tournament.

#BlueShell

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Historically, every time there's been a push towards progress, there's also been a push back by all the cockroaches that consider tradition the ultimate model for self expression, which is where we are now. Usually after some violent struggle of a variety, the progress wins out eventually. Hopefully this is not an exception, but we might not see it in our lifetime.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

The French Revolution last over a hundred years and imo never ended.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 20 hours ago

no, this is a classic fallacy in historiography.

things don’t just happen. we have to choose to do them, first.

your thesis ignores… every single time in history progress didnt “win out.”

saying “progress wins out eventually” is unfalsifiable because the only true constant in this universe is change. you’re like, not technically wrong but the statement is so detached from the human experience as to be meaningless. this type of analysis isn’t welcome in academia for a reason.

in other words. get out there, there’s work to do!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Jeez I was going to but the city denied our protest permit.

I'm gonna go call my Senator about this!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

My Republican senators! They surely care about me!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

TBF Luigi is considered King of the Wokes by some people...

[–] borf 30 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I personally hope it gets bad enough fast enough for Elon to decide to go personally pioneer his Mars base. I would give anything for a live feed of him trying to survive a hundred million miles away from the rest of us

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

They want to put nukes in space, that is the main goal of the Mars thing. They say they want to detonate 2 nukes on Mars poles to start it rotating - this a lie which is a cover for them wanting to develop technology to put nukes in space to threaten us all, while SpaceX and Bezos have their rockets to save some select few. He was never going to terraform Mars. Ever. He can't even build a train here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It could be like one of those private sub missions and be over quick!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

He needs to partner up with Logitech for the controller to make it extra perfect.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

It would be like Musk trying to win a game of Factorio, without any help. I am down for it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Took the Great Depression to do that. May well happen again.