I’m sure it’ll end up fine just like Star wars!
It’s more like we’re headed towards Elysium, except the rich dickheads move underground because the whole in-orbit thing is waaaay too fucking hard.
Wdym by Elysium? I don’t think you mean the fields of Elysium here.
It’s a movie with Matt Damon, basically the good tech, like “instant healing” pods, was being hoarded by the elite class in a giant in-orbit space station called Elysium. So Matt Damon has to fight to save the people left on Earth iirc
Ohh, that explains it. And yeah, that does sound distrubingly familiar.
happy lemmings day :)
as an aside, do we really need to call it a cake day? that’s a reddit thing, and I’m boycotting reddit
Thanks
It’s amazing what people will put up with if you promise them a light saber.
Insert The Expanse
Quiet, Rebel scum!
We are very much on Trek. For reference, check out season 3 episodes 11 and 12 of Deep Space Nine. These episodes take place on Earth in 2024, roughly six months ago. It was always clearly laid out in Trek that their path to utopia was paved with war and hardship.
Well that and the fact that our first contact in Trek is with a peaceful but vastly superior race. We had everything to gain by creating an alliance and could have easily been wiped out by Klingons or Romulans if we didn’t.
It’d be pretty dope if we discussed society and politics using political theory and philosophy instead of different kinds of media
Yeah, it isn’t like art can convey ideas and profound thoughts at all and never ever have fictional stories been used as a tool to talk about real events.
It’d be pretty dope if people didn’t try to gatekeep, well, everything. 🙄
actually I wasn’t able to delete OP’s post after all
Oh, please, that’s like…not even remotely creative.
If you’re going to resort to trolling, at least put some effort in! Otherwise, what’s the point?!
You’re reaching deep into your grab bag of labels. Am I gaslighting you now?
I commented my opinion on the original post and then I employed sarcasm when you accused me of gatekeeping.
My reaction to this thread being all about movie references was to wish we didn’t think about our society only in those terms and I shared it.
Your reaction to a thread…about movie references…is to wish it wasn’t about that???
Ummm, yeah, I stand by my accusation of gatekeeping.
You’re standpilling my argument.
Anyway I’ll drop it and move on but the thread is about critiquing our society by way of movie references, which is on topic for what I’m saying and kinda proves my point.
thunderous applause
…democracies? i haven’t watched a lot of star wars but isn’t the whole point that they are fighting a fascist empire
That fascist empire used to be a democracy until it was transformed into an empire by Palpatine
to be fair that was in the prequels, which sucked ass
The prequels warned you about 9/11 and 2025
The story was good, but the dialogue absolutely ruined it
You mean the memes?
I’m not familiar with Star Wars, but I remember hearing something about the original movies being intended as commentary/allegory for the Vietnam war?
Yeah the Empire represents the USA.
The rebels represent the Vietcong.
Star Wars is literally US imperialism in space.
Literally been (re)watching Clone Wars with my partner, and it’s scary how analogous the whole thing is to the US. Especially the stuff foreboding Order 66 and the rise of the empire towards the end of the series.
The Senate will send a strongly-worded letter about the Emperor’s genocide of the Jedi.
Star Trek is pretty much a futuristic communist society.
Star Wars is a galaxy constantly in a power grab war.
Not democracy, no.
We’re on the Borderlands timeline. in a few years, Dahl is gonna take over Yellowstone
We are heading towards a solar punk future unfortunately we will have to survive through a cyberpunk world to get their
Didn’t the Star Trek timeline involve some sort of apocalypse on earth at some point?
100%
Star Trek’s WWIII happened from 2026-2053, I believe. So we’re still on track.
Vulcans would have to be real. Their presence is what makes humanity realize there’s a better way to live.
In fact Cochrane himself states that he built warp drive just to get rich. His intention was to jumpstart capitalism in a post-war world that had no functioning economy.
If Vulcans landed on our Earth after WWIII, we would just kill them and create the Mirror Universe instead.
That would certainly track with the rest of this timeline.
Yeah I was hoping for WW3 but we just got climate collapse instead. No star trek for us.
Yeah, right after the wealth inequality and homelessness crisis and plagues of the first half of the 2020s.
Is that really part of Star Trek lore? Because…that’s terrifying if so.
Look up the Bell Riots.
Great stand-alone two-parter from Deep Space 9 about the 2020s.
Sadly the Irish Reunification didn’t happen last year
