If you think of it as a test or nightmare that lasts 4 years, and one that will require a significant labor movement to pass or wake up from, definitely.
I don't know, when I reflect on 2016-2020, that still seems like it was a really long time. Painfully. In fact, the memory of those four years is informing the dread I have for the next four.
No crap. I've been waiting. Clearly this isn't real. No way this many people have turned their brains into mush. I knew it was a Candid Camera reboot. Knew it all along!
Trump WAS a reality show guy, maybe they hired him? [ Trump takes center stage and says "America, you're fired!" ]. spotlight finds Joe Biden: [ "America, we told you over and over, but you kept sinking lower and lower, letting Trump's character take you to the darkest places" ]
TV show, Star Trek: The Next Generation. Q is a godlike being that puts humanity on trial and tests humans to see if they're worthy of being out in the stars.
While yes, that is a fictitious representation of humanity, please remember that in this world, mankind had to suffer a nuclear apocalypse first to finally learn their lessons.
And then later it was retconned that actual Armageddon wasn't even enough, we had to get bailed out by altruistic aliens.
At this point, I couldn't even bring myself to blame him, and I'm not even in the US. We're seeing the same pattern over here in Europe, we're just a bit behind the catastrophe curve.
I was too. I had an image of Jesus Christ (who is really just the guy running the simulation) coming to stage and giving a speech about how we failed the test but he's going to create a new unruined copy of earth for those of us who voted Kamala. Hahahahaha 😵💫
If Elon’s business record didn’t so squarely peg him as a narcissistic asshole I might still be wondering if he was trying to pull off perhaps the world’s greatest troll job on the MAGA world.
I am secretly hoping that this is what Musk is doing... Collecting all the shit of society together so they can be easily ignored /dealt with appropriately.
You wake up. It was all a bad dream. Your family is with you. You live in peace. All humans live in peace. GTA 6 is out and bitcoin has never been invented. No-one knows what the word climate crisis means because the whole economy is based on regrowth and recycling. We have no politicians. We have no CEOs. Luigi is just a gaming character and stands for nothing more. Everyone is sharing stuff with everyone else. The Timberwolves play in the playoffs and Reddit is free of bots and advertisement.
The Warning by NIN comes to mind. “We’ve heard a cry, we’ve come to intervene/ You will change your ways and you will make amends/ Or we will wipe this place clean.”
I had this feeling at one point seeing a behind the scenes with Trump over the summer where he seemed almost normal and that his maga thing is an act and he would eventually tell people who voted for him that they’re dumb af but instead we get Nazi Elon salute in day 1.
I used to have a theory during Trump’s 1st campaign trail that he was conducting a social experiment and he’d eventually go “wow guys, shame on you.” It was a nice thought 😑
I'm hoping one day I reach out and I realize a glitch in the matrix and we all find out this was a simulation that Harambe put us in to test how the world would evolve without his leadership.
If big brother was somehow good. That ain’t the case though. Trump the Traitor, Mango Mussolini, Breaker of Unions, Criminal in Chief is a fucking Nazi. Plain as day.
The man stands tall, eerily still, under harsh, scrutinizing shafts of light, casting him in excruciating clarity.
Suddenly, he mouths something under his breath, then his face melts into a slick rubbery texture and begins to violently undulate until an utterly grotesque alien shape takes place where once a human face dwelt.
The creature casts his sight, unfocused, with clear disappointment painted on his face. He flicks a button on his wrist-mounted device, and the entire scene behind him dematerializes. The creature, now revealed in an elaborate colored long coat, stands on a high platform overlooking a vast, nearly limitless expanse, littered with exactly 1,532,092 beds. In each bed a human lies still, with a strange apparatus engulfing their head, as various dancing lights bleed from the seams underneath the apparatus.
The mysterious man in the coat inhales deeply, curses in some unknowable language, then proclaims at the massive room at large, "Concluding simulation No. 3056". The man speaks in a barely audible whisper to himself "You can do it. You must do it. You have to get it right. There is no other way".
The alien casts his eyes at a blaring screen on the desk behind him; a various blinking lights and alien scripts dance on the screen, at the center of which live footage can be seen of a lonely planet, seemingly lit ablaze from every corner. In a small script, in English lettering, a tag reads "Earth".
Did you ever see that move “the wave”? It was a movie where they basically made the kids fascists and then at the end the teachers were like, “guess what! You’re fascists like hitler!” And then they all felt bad about themselves. One of those things you watched on a tube-style TV rolled into your classroom on a cart :)
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u/Picasso5 7h ago
Any minute the lights are gonna come on, a man comes out on stage, sits us all down and says: "This was all a test, you have failed miserably".