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A Boring Dystopia

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by negativenull@lemmy.world to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
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[–] Bosht@lemmy.world 270 points 3 months ago (4 children)

The fact an official gov channel is posting this kind of childish shit is abhorrent and embarrassing. If I pulled shit like this at my job I'd be thrown out. Fucking slime.

[–] Bouzou@lemmy.world 117 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Not just government -- the official White House account. It's... dystopian...

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 53 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It’s… dystopian…

We've already used up our big words in February. Supercynical "I have no words" in March.

Now, the horror getting worse every day has become the new normal coming out of the US, every day, steady as a slow machine gun.

Had I known how much worse it's going to get I'd have saved up some words during the first months.

[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Nah in Dystopias the megacorps and evil governments tend to be intelligent and refined with armored limousines and some sense of style, even the glutenous autocrat steriotype tends to have a kind of weird refinement or at least be intelligent enough to not be ridiulous in public, or at least in the presence of a large number of guys with guns who can look meaningfully at anyone who might laugh.

What this is, is some weird idiocracy shit only without any of the redeeming characteristics of the people in that film.

[–] huppakee@lemm.ee 13 points 3 months ago

Actually, dystopia is basically a 'bad' (dys-) 'place' (-topia). So the common view of what a dystopia looks like is not the only way it can look. Being ruled by dumb toddlers that break everything in their way is a very different dystopia than one with evil megacorps but it is still quite dystopian to me.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 4 points 3 months ago

Thank you for using Idiocracy in the correct context. I hate always seeing it used as-is without any caveats.

[–] SmilingSolaris@lemmy.world 40 points 3 months ago (5 children)

I don't know how to express this feeling I have properly so bear with me. I kinda hate the reference of political office as a job. It's not really a job. It's a position of societal power. One that should come with, frankly, deadly consequences when people in that position of power start talking like this. This is a branch of the government saying fuck the courts and their decision. There should be blood over that. Equating it to a job just rubs me wrong. Not to shit on you, I have no problem with what you said, I agree with it even. Just expressing general thoughts

[–] Infinite@lemmy.zip 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, a duty to hundreds of millions of people and the future, that one has to volunteer for and convince a plurality of their fitness for... not just a job that you should be able to neglect, let alone subvert.

[–] Guns0rWeD13@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

the people have a duty to punish those that abuse that position

[–] Liberteez@lemm.ee 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Comments like this get deleted off reddit and the user flagged by the admins.

Btw I'm new here

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Welcome, bootlicker. Hope you stay. ❤️

[–] Bosht@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Bro you aren't shitting on my post at all and I 100 percent agree.

[–] knightmare1147@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

"Civil Servant."

[–] dryfter@lemm.ee 8 points 3 months ago

I didn't notice who posted it on X until I read your comment and I just.....I'm shocked I am shocked by this because I feel like I've been getting numb to the stupidity of the last ~4 months

If I pulled shit like this at my job I'd be thrown out.

Well they're supposed to work for us, so what's the next step?