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I have seen a few of these with similar story lines and realized we are living it right now. They have the best healthcare, the best food, the best everything and most of us are a few dollars from disaster. That scares some of us to death literally from all the stress it causes.

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[–] Nytelock 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We need Alita battle Angel

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I for one am ready to become a badass robot girl.

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

And the rich have the rest of us bickering amongst ourselves about Team Red vs. Team Blue, and social media exacerbated this. News flash, if any of them actually cared, we wouldn't be in this mess.

Team Red has their side blaming immigrants and liberals for everything, while Team Blue has their side convinced that everybody on Team Blue is infallible just because Team Red exists.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

while Team Blue has their side convinced that everybody on Team Blue is infallible just because Team Red exists.

I've found it to be quite the opposite. Team Blue opposes Team Red and half of the people on Team Blue too. It's split into all these different agenda and identity groups and they're all so very eager to tear each other apart with labels and accusations if you don't toe the exact line that's currently being drawn. It's a given that any time you have a large group of thoughtful individuals you're going to have some inter-group bickering. But Team Blue is more divided and combative against themselves than I've ever seen before in my lifetime.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago
[–] mx_smith 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well they have been buying up the Hawaiian islands. I think Larry Ellis, Zuckerberg and few others have bought a ton of property on Lanai or Molokai.

[–] AngryCommieKender 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At least that will give them a reason to actually do something about climate change. Those islands aren't gonna be paradise for too much longer with the more frequent and stronger hurricanes, and ocean levels rising.

[–] mx_smith 5 points 1 year ago

I hope your right, but their previous behavior suggests this is a fuck you all, I got mine.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Gunnm, Elysium and all this kind of films are a reflection of reality.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Speaking of this, my amateur ass had an idea for a shelved sci-fi book where two people traveling through alternate dimensions ends up during one chapterin a world where the rich have fled theirs through dimensional travel. The idea of that world is that the remaining people on Earth fight to survive as the rich left behind devices that every so often go off and ends up destroying their natural or man-made structures and their farms too.

All of why this happened would be explained in a later episode where they find the rich people who explain they left because the resources on the planet dried up and they couldn't make any money off of a planet without resources.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Elisium. Great flick. Like all of Bloomy’s old stuff

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

You can try to climb to Zalem. Try is a key word.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

3% on Netflix is really good. Definitely do the english subtitles instead of the dubbing though, it sounds ridiculous.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah, and both this feeling and the wealth inequality are only gonna get bigger and bigger as time goes by, that's capitalism.

But there is still hope, a government and state of the working class, for the working class, where the capitalists are the ones oppressed, and not us. A society where profit is not the goal anymore, where the global south is not explored until they drop dead, where the poor and homeless can get what they need, where people can stop worrying about surviving and start living, where we are not a product anymore, but human beings.

This can only happen if people start organizing and start learning what do to and how.

Here are some resources:

In English:

Socialism for Absolute Beginners by Second Thought

Why Social Democracy Isn't Good Enough by Second Thought

Will Life Be Better Under Socialism? by Hakim

"Socialism always fails" is a stupid argument by Hakim

How Capitalism sells poverty as modesty & why equality isn't a practical goal. by Yugopinik

https://dessalines.github.io/essays/

In Portuguese (subbed in english):

Comunismo: princípios básicos e guia de leitura / Communism: basic principles and reading guide by História Pública

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This is what the Soviet movie kin dza dza is about

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