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(1,122 posts) Mon Dec 16, 2024, 03:32 AM Dec 16

Expectations

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people vloted for this dystopian nightmare rampartd Dec 16 #1

That is so true! Plenty of stupid people voted for this. raccoon Dec 16 #2

In fairness expectations like those in 2000 jfz9580m Dec 16 #3

rampartd

(868 posts)

1. people vloted for this dystopian nightmare

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Mon Dec 16, 2024, 05:02 AM

Dec 16

if you are worried about "1984" fageyaboutit.

this will be closer to "soylent green" where most people ate unemployed, homeless and food.

raccoon

(31,514 posts)

2. That is so true! Plenty of stupid people voted for this.

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Mon Dec 16, 2024, 05:12 AM

Dec 16

jfz9580m

(15,584 posts)

3. In fairness expectations like those in 2000

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Mon Dec 16, 2024, 05:47 AM

Dec 16

Probably got us here.

I was thinking in 2004: I hope we have a less overpopulated, less deforested, less factory farming filled, less impoverished planet at some point..I was also reading the splc etc. And I was actually wishing rather than hoping.

So where we are makes sense…

Idiocracy was prescient about the effects population explosion and corporations marketing garbage would have on society.

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