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A Boring Dystopia
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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.
Not just government -- the official White House account. 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.
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.
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.
Thank you for using Idiocracy in the correct context. I hate always seeing it used as-is without any caveats.
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
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Welcome, bootlicker. Hope you stay. ❤️
"Civil Servant."
That's actually how democracy is understood in France ! The office you hold is a privilege and a responsibility : executive power delegated to you by the will of the people, underpinned by the rule of law.
You know your country political idea/marketplace of idea is turning to shit when the majority yearn for a providential man that will fix all their problem with the magic wand of repression and prejudice.
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.
the people have a duty to punish those that abuse that position
Bro you aren't shitting on my post at all and I 100 percent agree.
Well they're supposed to work for us, so what's the next step?
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