Reagan is the devil. His policies need to be rolled back and we need to get rid of the Right.
I think whoever downvoted you didn’t quite get what you meant because you just threw that out there with no context.
Continuing your thought;
Unfortunately Bush, Clinton, W, Obama and Biden continued and expanded policies in the same direction Reagan started. Trump on the other hand is actively setting fire to what’s left of democracy while stealing everything, nailed down or not.How the world looks like for people on Lemmy:
How sweet to remember Alaska.
Remember what?
And yet forget Hawaii.
You can see Hawaii yet New Zealand is, yet again, no where to be seen.
Yeti yet again yeeted a yetling over the yett.
#mapswithoutnewzealand
Seriously. The fascists want extermination of minority groups, the Christians want to feel persecuted, and I just want to live a life without there bullshit. The compromise that gets everybody everything they want is right there.
There’s no saving this shit show. We need to form a new government with a new constitution
I, gen-x, as a kid in the early eighties, imagined 2026 as either a post nuclear war apocalyptic wasteland like Mad Max, or a cyberpunk dystopia like Neuromancer, Cyberpunk 2020, or Bladerunner. One of those two came true.
EDIT:
One?
No nukes yet, but there’s still 4 months left in the year…
Babe we got climate change, we don’t need nukes!
Bruh same
^((replace 4 with 10)^)
^((make line a downwards parabola)^)I disagree with that right-side graphic.
I think that when measured by Quality of Life we have actually been going backwards since maybe 2 decades.
Granted, I’m in Europe, so around here it’s pretty clear that the society-wide support structures built in the 60s in areas such as Education, Universal Healthcare, Public Transportation and Social Security are actively being destroyed.
That said, even in the US you can see things like Equality of Opportunity completely reverse from reasonably equal to highly unequal (just look at the graphic of Social Mobility in the US in the past 50 years).
In other words, even the highly individualist and quite asocial American Model of prosperity (“Anybody can become anything they want”) has been pretty much totally destroyed.
History ended sometime around 1990. It was determined at that time that civilization could not substantially change any further, for better or worse. No Mad Max or Terminator dystopias, but also no Star Trek type societies in which both social systems and technology become highly advanced. No, just a Sisyphean nightmare in which nothing meaningfully changes and an infinite, perpetual constant is maintained and managed, forever and ever, until the heat death of the universe. Instead of either dystopia or utopia we have an ever present, oppressive malaise that only the sweet release of death can liberate us from.
Instead of either dystopia or utopia we have an ever present, oppressive malaise that only the sweet release of death can liberate us from.
That sounds like a dystopia to me.
Yeah, like if everything was kinda ok, and we weren’t slipping back into global fascism, but it was obvious we were just treading water as a species… that’d be middle ground. We’re definitely not on middle ground.
No its great and of you don’t love it you’re a COMMUNIST which is the worst thing you can be and the police are on their way.
History ended sometime around 1990. It was determined at that time that civilization could not substantially change any further, for better or worse
Life did get substantially worse since 1990 though?
Mass surveillance, rise of tech billionaire class, unprecedented political polarization, KYC-rollout in banks.
Ecological crisis is accelerating with tens of thousands of dead in Europe due to recent heatwaves.
edit: also Germany, Japan, Russia and China openly remilitarizing after 80 years of relative peace. This is really bad.
Nah, we got a literary dystopia, just not one where everything is destroyed like your examples. We got the gilded cyberpunk future where everyone is tracked, privacy is dead and the lower class is held down by force. The biggest difference we have these days is that we went more heavy on AI than robotics, and the skies are a bit clearer.
We’re actively doing CFCs 2.0 though so the skys being clear is going to be part of the curse before long.
Fukuyama around, find out.
Youre exactly right. Ended around 99 or earlier. All future years feel fake.
This one hits hard, not going to sugar coat it. Obviously the conversation doesn’t necessarily go exactly like that, but close enough for a meme.
In my bunkty-two years on this fine planet, prior to this year, I have been called a communist exactly none times. All of a sudden, I went from mild mannered and hard working homosexual to world ending communist supreme in like a manner of a few months. If this pace keeps up, I may be the communist black hole that devours the entire universe by the time the USA’s midterm elections come in November.
At one point I was out with a group that was bringing attention to the fact that the medicaid cuts resulting from the big beautiful bill are projected to bankrupt a rural hospital in my area. There were people out there screaming at us things like “how are we going to pay for it” and calling us “commies / communists”. And you can bet those willfully ignorant people are voters.
How many is a bunkty?
About 4 score
Human history will end, not with a bang, but with an idiotic whimper.
Flowing arches provide shade while being pretty. We should do more flowing arches.
Angry nerd neck beards aren’t really the archetype for those resistance to feeding babies or social programs…should be a rich woman wearing Gucci or something.
Also using communism as a negative term 🙃
Only babies that ship value deserve food. /s
2026 isnt a real year. I’m convinced. 2012 wasnt real either. Always felt fake.
Why is common sense depicted as wrinkly cucks?
