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From 2000. I think about this one a lot.

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[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The future is now the present and it is both kinds of dystopias: as in all fascist regimes, the private sector is in cahoots with the regime. The US is no different.

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Hitler got rid of all unions, replacing them with one big Nazi Party union that just did whatever he said, and that all German workers had to be members of.

From 2000. I think about this one a lot.

You should watch Continuum. It's from 2012, I think, and the future there is totalitarian privatized corporate dystopia.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

Seems optimistic. Everyone gets a concrete room to live in? People still having money to buy things?

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Under fascism, ¿Porque no los dos?

[–] Delta_V@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Citizens who harbor anti-authoritarian sentiments will be . . . rehabilitated into blind servitude through torture and brainwashing.

Now they just call it "high school".