A friend and I have tickets booked to be in San Francisco the first week of September. We don't know what we will do there but we will be there to support Gabriel Bell.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

We are absolutely worse off in the real 2024 than what "Past Tense" depicted.

Vin asks Sisko for a "UHC card" when trying to identify him. A universal healthcare card. In the real 2024? Still no universal healthcare in the US.
The famous billionaire's role in the story of "Past Tense" was to get residents of the districts access to "the nets" to tell their story. In the real 2024, Elon Musk would just take to Xitter and advocate for crackdowns.
Once on the nets, the resident's stories actually swayed public opinion. Can you honestly imagine the stories they told making a dent in the zeitgeist, even if they trended on YouTube and TikTok?
Sanctuary districts exist too, they're just on the border and privatized.

Ira Steven Behr set out to depict a horribly dystopic 2024, succeeded, and undershot.

[–] FauxPseudo 23 points 10 months ago

We can still look forward to Irish Unification

[–] marcos 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

That's a bit dramatic isn't it?

Sanctuaries, for example, on the show hold (or rather, imprison) unemployed people, as there are no jobs. AFAIk, the US is nowhere near a segregation state that ostracizes people once they lose their job.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Uh
Are you familiar with the concept of homelessness

[–] marcos 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Do you have a passport that states that you are not homeless and allows you entry to the main US?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's called ID and it requires a permanent address

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

you're forgetting: the people in the Sanctuary were literally not allowed to leave. what parallels are there with modern unhoused people not having IDs? there's struggles yes but not literal incarceration.

damn, you all with these damn hyperboles.... I know we could improve society in a number of ways but come on, i keep reading comments on Lemmy that talk as if there were no possible way for society to get any worse.

[–] BigWheelPowerBrakeSlider 10 points 10 months ago

Perhaps not as an outwardly stated and official government policy, but there is ostracizing of the unemployed.

[–] ummthatguy 22 points 10 months ago (3 children)

[–] marcos 12 points 10 months ago

Well, just try not to cross paths with any of the main characters.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Cut him some slack. Life is difficult when your mom names you Biddle.

[–] negativenull 3 points 10 months ago

But he had a nice hat, despite what "Bell" said about it

[–] Lemmygizer 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

https://bellriots.netlify.app/

222 Days (as of posting this)

[–] FauxPseudo 5 points 10 months ago

We only know that it's the first week of September. You don't know the exact date. But any count is better than no count.