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Democracy around the world are collapsing. The US, China, and Russia are all controlled by authoritarians with the backing of the ultra-rich. Climate change will get worse and worse. Hundreds of millions of people have no jobs and no prospects. Automation will make that "hundreds of millions" into "billions" in a decade or two. In the meantime, all these billionaires are starting their private spaceflight companies. Musk and SpaceX. Bezos and Blue Origin. Branson and Virgin Galactic/Scaled Composites. Bigelow and ... Bigelow. And they're all making good progress. And a different group of billionaires are pouring tons of money into figuring out how they can live forever. And amazingly, they're also getting somewhere. So in 50 years you'll have a couple thousand billionaires living in orbital habitats (and/or Mars) with technology that lets them live forever while the rest of us suffer and fight for scraps on a rapidly inhospitable Earth. drat it.
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Word on the street is it's more like Deathly Hallows Pt. 1
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Jan 19, 2017 00:27
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district 9 was a better movie so i hope that one happens
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Jan 19, 2017 00:36
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always remember that ubi is a way to make urself beholden to oligarchs unless its rooted in democratic control of the means of production
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so we need to hack the government?
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I'm sharlto Copley
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mastershakeman posted:I'm sharlto Copley We're the ones that dew the hangin'!!!
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Jan 19, 2017 00:52
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Elysium had a happy ending in the longterm, so I'll take it. Also I want a car that can take off and get to orbit, that's pretty cool.
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Sure. However we humans can be unpredictably violent sometimes. I guarantee you if that poo poo is happening to billions, while thousands live the good life, it's a ticking time bomb.
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Jan 19, 2017 02:24
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Could be worse, we could be living in Chappie.
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Jan 19, 2017 04:21
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im the super unnecessary shaky cam in the scene where baby matt damon is literally just walking outside
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Jan 19, 2017 04:23
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they'll just end up killing everybody who isn't one of the few ruling families and have the robots do the work they don't need to live in space to do that even in 200 years earth will be far, far more hospitable than space or mars you can't have billions of people unemployed even if you're willing to pay them for doing nothing they'll get into trouble and end up wrecking everything soooooo... what else can you do? gotta kill everybody except ur famil needless to say it would be a fascist society
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mastershakeman posted:I'm sharlto Copley lol no
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Jan 19, 2017 04:33
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Krueger was actually the good guy
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Lindsey O. Graham posted:Sure. However we humans can be unpredictably violent sometimes. I guarantee you if that poo poo is happening to billions, while thousands live the good life, it's a ticking time bomb. I'd like to think you're on to something here, but current evidence from right loving now, where the top ten richest people in the world control as much wealth as the bottom 3.75 billion, suggests that in fact nothing at all will happen.
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Not a Step posted:I'd like to think you're on to something here, but current evidence from right loving now, where the top ten richest people in the world control as much wealth as the bottom 3.75 billion, suggests that in fact nothing at all will happen. They haven't organized globally yet. I happen to believe that is still a possibility. Nation states are launching revolutions through Twitter and an orange hitler clown president entered the White House with the same. It may be safe to say the Internet presents disturbing powers of organization that haven't been exploited yet, but can be.
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I am sure that the continued wealth redistribution that we empowered the rich with to keep the poor out of poverty, will prevent that from happening. Just another decade and it will work this time or next. Any day now.
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Jan 19, 2017 13:15
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maybe g gundam is happening instead?
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the us has some of the highest, if not the highest, gun ownership per capita anywhere in the world at the same time, there are high levels of wealth and income inequality, and public services are soon to be eviscerated im not sure the right has thought this through completely
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If the masses start getting too uppity, then they'll amend the 2nd so that it's legal to arm private drones.
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Jan 19, 2017 15:46
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drat, I was hoping for Oblivion so at least we'd have a cool theme song.
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tadashi posted:drat, I was hoping for Oblivion so at least we'd have a cool theme song. Well tough poo poo, fucko,were getting Fallout 4. And only Fallout 4.
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Darkman Fanpage posted:lol no 
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MizPiz posted:Well tough poo poo, fucko,were getting Fallout 4. And only Fallout 4. I'm now taking sign ups for the Atom Cats so I can teach you dorks the way of cool.
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MizPiz posted:Well tough poo poo, fucko,were getting Fallout 4. And only Fallout 4. not even a well written bad future. too bad howard hughes died before he could go and invent himself a fat robot stash
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The future is gonna be more like Parable of The Sower than any dumb Bethesda poo poo.
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Annual Prophet posted:the us has some of the highest, if not the highest, gun ownership per capita anywhere in the world I dunno, for all of the 30k-ish people who die due to gun related violence each year in the US, a surprisingly small percentage of those victims come from households with a mean income of $100K+. every time there's a mass shooting, it's at a school or an airport or some other very busy public venue that maximizes the number of potential targets that the shooter can take out, but has very little to do with making a statement about income inequality or whatever. I think we'd have to see a lot more mass shootings taking place at Ferrari dealerships or elite country clubs or there'd have to be a spree of homicides that exclusively target the ultra-rich, before they have anything to worry about. they've done a pretty good job of keeping the poor at each other's throats for this long I don't see that changing any time soon.
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Yeah, any minute now the poor will come together as one and rise up against the ric- RICH PEOPLE: Psst, some of you are immigrants POOR PEOPLE: Murder each other instead forever
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Freaking Crumbum posted:I dunno, for all of the 30k-ish people who die due to gun related violence each year in the US, a surprisingly small percentage of those victims come from households with a mean income of $100K+. every time there's a mass shooting, it's at a school or an airport or some other very busy public venue that maximizes the number of potential targets that the shooter can take out, but has very little to do with making a statement about income inequality or whatever. It's also worth noting that more people get struck by lightning or win the lottery then killed via "Mass-shootings."
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ate poo poo on live tv posted:It's also worth noting that more people get struck by lightning or win the lottery then killed via "Mass-shootings." Seems to be some sort of correlation here...
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ate poo poo on live tv posted:It's also worth noting that more people get struck by lightning or win the lottery then killed via "Mass-shootings." oh sure. my point was just that the ultra-rich have almost nothing to fear from the extremely well-armed poors that otherwise vastly outnumber them. I've got a pet conspiracy theory that the way firearms are regulated in this country (extremely lax rules for resellers / second hand purchasers, a refusal at the highest level of the government to even consider meaningful regulations or a licensing system or a gun database) is just a very indirect form of population control; or else it didn't start that nefariously, but it turns out that there are a variety of social and economic factors that, combined with lax firearms regulations, tends to cause a disproportionate amount of poors to die from gun violence, and it's just a happy coincidence for the elites. or to look at it another way, an absolute fuckton of CEOs/Senators/Philantropists/Tech-Moguls/etc. children are going to have to be killed via a person wielding a firearm before we see anything change in this country. Christ, probably not even then as long as the NRA and Defense Lobbyists exist.
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Annual Prophet posted:the us has some of the highest, if not the highest, gun ownership per capita anywhere in the world We have. The people that we allow to own guns are not the vanguard of any revolution. The left tends to eschew the purchase of guns and live in states where getting one on short notice is problematic especially as a minority. Also, look at our military, what's a little ak going to accomplish? Lol, if you think Trump wouldn't nuke part of the us just to stamp out a rebellion. Lol if you think the wealthier classes would give a drat if he did.
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ScrubLeague posted:im the super unnecessary shaky cam in the scene where baby matt damon is literally just walking outside I'm the unnecessary unsteady cam in Secretary. Just hold the drat camera in one place.
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Lindsey O. Graham posted:The left tends to eschew the purchase of guns and live in states where getting one on short notice is problematic especially as a minority. im going to start a 501c3 called Communists for Second Amendment Rights to help indigent communities in high population density areas acquire ar15s through neighborhood gun shows allahu akbar
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Annual Prophet posted:the us has some of the highest, if not the highest, gun ownership per capita anywhere in the world Might want to look who owns those guns before you make blanket statements like that. I'm willing to bet that since the left goes on national TV and literally cries because they can't ban guns, the right probably owns a vast majority of the guns. Two Feet From Bread has issued a correction as of 18:17 on Jan 20, 2017 |
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The killings are overwhelmingly occurring in places where the poors are not allowed/restricted from owning them. I am banking on there being several kinds of Elysium. Having billionaires throw out the mega millionaires for whatever reason and those people then cast out the millionaires in order to create a smaller scale Elysium, builds into a funny scenario.
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Scalding Coffee posted:The killings are overwhelmingly occurring in places where the poors are not allowed/restricted from owning them. That's already happening. I'm now convinced that in effect, the dem party doesn't really represent the interests of the poor or minorities. Rather they represent the interests of "new money" while the right represents the interests of "old money". I'm specifically referring to the party machine which encourages corruption and ineptitude as well as a flaccid approach to economic as well as civil rights as well as women's issues. My party has been consistently successful in peeling these back and all progress from the other side has been either tangential or temporary. Why else are the only people even mentioning the ramifications of Daca repeal are a light sprinkle of dems and lil' old me?  An old turd with sprinkles on it. That's what America has left representing them in their government. You want revolt? Stop talking about AR15's as we are well past that militarily. A coup needs military involvement. That simple.
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Lindsey O. Graham posted:An old turd with sprinkles on it. That's what America has left representing them in their government. like the ak before it, the ar15 will blaze the bloody trail to our glorious, ultra probable, and indeed completely imminent, revolutionary destiny, a materialist eschaton of heretofore unimaginable wisdom, prosperity and brotherhood in the meantime, the us military will be relieved to know that small arms based insurgencies are no probs Two Feet From Bread posted:Might want to look who owns those guns before you make blanket statements like that. I'm willing to bet that since the left goes on national TV and literally cries because they can't ban guns, the right probably owns a vast majority of the guns. whoosh
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hi, i'm Neill Blomkamp, and i can't make a sci-fi film that isn't an allegory to apartheid or social conditions in South Africa (just you wait for my new Alien film, where the bosses of the Weyland-Yutani Corp won't stop bitching about transformation targets ruining the Springboks)
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