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View Poll Results: Which of these dystopian scenarios will we move towards the most in 2021 and beyond?
Left Behind (Tim Lahaye) 6 10.17%
The 12 Monkeys 0 0%
Soylent Green 2 3.39%
The Terminator 1 1.69%
1984 (George Orwell) 32 54.24%
The Hunger Games 1 1.69%
I Robot 0 0%
Battlestar Gallactica 1 1.69%
The Stand (Stephen King) 2 3.39%
Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand) 2 3.39%
Chappie 0 0%
Something else (please post and explain) 12 20.34%
Voters: 59. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 12-31-2020, 04:12 PM
 
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I saw this video just today and it may very well be the creepiest thing I have seen this year. Maybe I am forgetting something, but this gets a bye to the final round even if I am.

https://twitter.com/levie/status/1344034534803718145

Boston Dynamics Robots Learn How To Dance In Creepy New Video

These are bipedal robots - like us. It is not just the little dog robots. These things look like early cylon models.

As a species that is clearly and profoundly lacking in wisdom and self control, it is enough to make a thinking person wonder: Which sort of dystopian future is all of the stuff that is happening in our world most likely to advance us towards the most in the year 2021?
1. Left Behind (Tim Lahaye)
2. The 12 Monkeys
3. Soylent Green
4. The Terminator
5. 1984 (George Orwell)
6. The Hunger Games
7. I Robot
8. Battlestar Gallactica
9. The Stand (Stephen King)
10. Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
11. Chappie
12. Something else (please post and explain)

Just to be clear, the lockdowns, the masks, the mass hysteria around this virus - we did not have to respond this way. This is a human caused disaster. The Wuhan virus is not the true disaster here. Our reaction to it, which is no accident, is the disaster. Unless you are one of the extremely wealthy globalist elites, that is, in which case you can afford to fly around on planes from one resort or vacation home or another, and none of these apparently permanent control measures really do not effect you in any meaningful way.

We do not have to live like this. This is not a volcano or a tsunami or an earthquake or an asteroid strike which we have no control over. We have chosen to do this to ourselves.

So where does this lead in 2021 and beyond? Something dystopian, almost certainly, if the way that we have behaved in the year 2020 is any indication.
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Old 12-31-2020, 05:00 PM
 
Location: interior Alaska
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Old 12-31-2020, 05:14 PM
 
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I vote we build the Galactica before we build any more dancing robots!
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Old 12-31-2020, 05:23 PM
 
Location: Japan
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12. A Culture of Conspiracy This thread is a case in point.
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Old 12-31-2020, 05:40 PM
 
Location: The Republic of Gilead
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V for Vendetta. To me, this screams 2020.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flBpsyFbEOs
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Old 12-31-2020, 06:56 PM
 
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2020 showed the World that the US Constitution doesn’t matter.
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Old 12-31-2020, 06:58 PM
 
Location: Sector 001
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Good to see people are reading 1984. Just by reading it you are one more person to prevent it from happening.
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Old 12-31-2020, 07:04 PM
 
Location: interior Alaska
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMhfvmKhpNU
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Old 12-31-2020, 07:59 PM
 
Location: Anderson, IN
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I saw this video just today and it may very well be the creepiest thing I have seen this year. Maybe I am forgetting something, but this gets a bye to the final round even if I am.

https://twitter.com/levie/status/1344034534803718145

Boston Dynamics Robots Learn How To Dance In Creepy New Video

These are bipedal robots - like us. It is not just the little dog robots. These things look like early cylon models.

As a species that is clearly and profoundly lacking in wisdom and self control, it is enough to make a thinking person wonder: Which sort of dystopian future is all of the stuff that is happening in our world most likely to advance us towards the most in the year 2021?
1. Left Behind (Tim Lahaye)
2. The 12 Monkeys
3. Soylent Green
4. The Terminator
5. 1984 (George Orwell)
6. The Hunger Games
7. I Robot
8. Battlestar Gallactica
9. The Stand (Stephen King)
10. Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
11. Chappie
12. Something else (please post and explain)

Just to be clear, the lockdowns, the masks, the mass hysteria around this virus - we did not have to respond this way. This is a human caused disaster. The Wuhan virus is not the true disaster here. Our reaction to it, which is no accident, is the disaster. Unless you are one of the extremely wealthy globalist elites, that is, in which case you can afford to fly around on planes from one resort or vacation home or another, and none of these apparently permanent control measures really do not effect you in any meaningful way.

We do not have to live like this. This is not a volcano or a tsunami or an earthquake or an asteroid strike which we have no control over. We have chosen to do this to ourselves.

So where does this lead in 2021 and beyond? Something dystopian, almost certainly, if the way that we have behaved in the year 2020 is any indication.
The summer lockdowns for me. Looking out my window in the middle of the day and seeing no signs of life, no cars or people or anything. It was pretty surreal. And murder hornets.
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Old 12-31-2020, 09:21 PM
 
Location: Sylmar, a part of Los Angeles
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Democracy is gone now that the Democrats know how to steal elections.
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