I did Apple TV last winter and I gotta say, they might be the king of sci-fi shows. But i haven’t watched TV since there was snow on the ground. Pluribus, foundation, and The silo are the three I’m really excited to get a new season to watch. All the sci-fi shows i watched on there were genuinely enjoyable. I had no idea they were doing sci-fi so it felt like finding a treasure trove. Totally worth dropping the 1-2 months of subscription fees and binge watching.
Not yet but its almost TV season over here, so I have added it to my list! Im a big sci-fi fan.
The conditions we’ve cooked into our system are causing populism. The conditions are born of government policy. What’s causing populism over in my house is having to choose between food and healthcare.
I’m not using the same techniques. I am using the data sources that you claim are infallible.
Can I use my share of the wealth to buy a presidency and a walk into the white house unelected and steal from the country?? Or do I need $1 trillion to do that? You understand what citizens united is right? The bottom 50% of this country has less political influence than one person.
I said I look forward to the future of anarchy in our world. I look forward to literally fighting you for resources. I am so glad that you want to destabilize our country by impoverishing half of it.
When i was growing up we used to enjoy an illuminati conspiracy theory, a bunch of incredibly powerful people behind closed doors pulling the strings of society. So ya now we have that IRL and its not even happening behind closed doors. The reason why rightwing populism is up is… the people with money who create the narrative and incentive structure of society are steering us that way. There is no meaningful opposition to Facebook and Fox News slowly rotting out society.
I have the US tech companies bailing out the US debt bubble, and seizing control of the country on my bingo card!
Thats sound logic, i can’t disagree with that. I still think having a machine that can automate scripting of malware is pretty dangerous to the digital society we set up. If the grid fails and the financial system collapses, I’m gonna be okay… Are you?
I grew up in the 1980’s and 1990s. Im a few years of economic pressure away from pulling the boot straps off your ass.
You want to see the real charts no one who shares your point of view brings up brings up? The bottom 50% of US households hold a smaller percentage of the nations wealth than they did 20 years ago. The middle class controls a smaller portion of wealth than they did 50 years ago. Most of the gains are concentrated in the top 10% of society… We live in a country that rewards controlling capital and 50% of the country controls 2.5% of that capital.
You and the pull yourself up by the bootstrap boys love to come online and terrorize 80 million + people who are living in worse conditions than they were 20 years ago. They are having a harder time affording basic necessities, harder time finding gainful employment with a savings rate that can accumulate capital.
I’m personally disgusted with you sadistic fucks who get off on telling people their lives are better and offering them proof in government backed data showing aggregate numbers. The aggregate numbers dont help people actually living in shit conditions. Thats the poing the bottom 50% thats 160 million people??? Chill the fuck out little hitlers.
https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/dataviz/dfa/distribute/chart/
It’s almost like using political power to enforce societal norms has limits? And when you hyper focus on one group instead of society as a whole. The ignored parts get angry??
Things have never been better is the liberal version of pull yourself up by the boot straps . It deflects societies problems back on society’s victims. You guys really need to cut that shit out.
Left wing populism will rise out of the broken dreams of right wing populism, then maybe we can do democracy again??
To be fair those people are scared to death of American cities too: that’s like a major factor of the culture war. Big scary city versus Noble country boys. Communist lawless Europe versus, lawful meth ridden, yet free, America!!
Things have never been better for people who control capital. I think once AI takes a swipe at the last pillar of the economy where people think “things have never been better” are going to suddenly think “holy shit eat the rich???”
“People are genuinely good and better than the past”
The people who you tell that to, whose material conditions would strongly disagree, those are the people turning to right wing populism.
Here at America, the bottom 50% of this country has been completely destroyed and betrayed. Yet the fucking liberals keep telling us that things have never been better. So telling people things I’ve never been better for 10 years while making them materially worse…. That’s where the fucking violent populism comes from.
You can do you part by never manufacturing consent for a political system that has failed over 100 million individuals
Yea it’s because a growing number of citizens are non political, and the ones that are political don’t do a good job at using their political power to help everyone. Populism rises from the forgotten corners of society.
Here in America, it was NAFTA and a long string of other projects that stripped the wealth in the dignity from the angry MAGA’s.
Wealth concentration, information manipulation and concentration, lack of education and media literacy. We’ve slowly pulled back the taboo of being a Nazi.
K which shithole do you hail from I can get specific? Wealth inequality is a global problem that no one is immune to. And last I checked we’d forced out financial system upon the majority of the globe?? I’d say the decline of my country is happening right inside your country too, but you just let me know which country that is and we can discuss it more.