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View Poll Results: Is This Dystopia?
Yes, Joe did that 34 69.39%
No, he still has a ways to go 12 24.49%
Unsure 3 6.12%
Voters: 49. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 04-30-2024, 04:08 PM
 
Location: SE corner of the Ozark Redoubt
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I don't like Biden or his policies nor do I support radical left wing policies but we're still a long ways off from Dystopia.

When I think of Dystopia, I think of radical third world countries, mass poverty, lawlessness is lifestyle and culture.. ..and while there are much more traits and symbolisms of those things, it hasn't captured the bulk of American societ -yet-

Now would I say we're on a trajectory towards Dystopia? Absolutely.. ..we're full steam ahead.. ..but we haven't reached the final destination... -yet- ...
OK, I guess we will just call this "Dystopia Lite"
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Old 04-30-2024, 04:14 PM
 
Location: East Coast of the United States
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It feels like we're living in a territory that no longer values America, its Constitution or its founding principles.

Foreign values have taken over this country.
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Old 04-30-2024, 04:41 PM
 
Location: SE corner of the Ozark Redoubt
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It feels like we're living in a territory that no longer values America, its Constitution or its founding principles.

Foreign values have taken over this country.
Well, to be sure, you are living in an area that I consider "behind enemy lines."

You should consider moving to a place that still considers America to be a Constitutional Republic.
(Just to be clear, the "Constitutional" part is more important than the Republic part.)

But, just to be clear, Dystopia isn't just an American problem.

All of the Western world is under siege.
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Old 04-30-2024, 06:05 PM
 
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Have democrats and Joe Biden succeeded in turning our modern day reality into a dystopia?
Not quite there, although they're trying their hardest.

Banning gas stoves, ICE vehicles, ceiling fans, trying to get us to eat bugs, ride the bus, while reducing road capacities that create more congestion, live in tiny cramped-expensive boxes in the urban jungle, while being monitored 24/7 from inside your own home by BIG Tech, using "smart street lights", deploying AI / facial recognition everywhere, implementing social credit scores etc etc etc

We're getting there, slowly but surely.
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Old 04-30-2024, 06:08 PM
 
Location: SE corner of the Ozark Redoubt
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Not quite there, although they're trying their hardest.

Banning gas stoves, ICE vehicles, ceiling fans, trying to get us to eat bugs, ride the bus, while reducing road capacities that create more congestion, live in tiny cramped-expensive boxes in the urban jungle, while being monitored 24/7 from inside your own home by BIG Tech, using "smart street lights", deploying AI / facial recognition everywhere, implementing social credit scores etc etc etc

We're getting there, slowly but surely.
Not sure about that "slowly" part.

Most of what you mentioned, happened since 2012, the year our nation died.
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Old 04-30-2024, 06:29 PM
 
Location: NJ/NY
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Criminals don’t get punished for committing crimes anymore.

Millions of people from all over the world are walking over our border. Many of them hate us. Many of them have very different values than us. Many of them want to change us for the worse.

Our institutes of higher learning are war zones and tent cities, and students are taking over buildings and chanting antisemitic and racist anti-white chants. Blocking kids from going to class based on the color of their skin or their religion.

News stations aren’t news anymore. They are propaganda vehicles for the right or the left. And the internet is even worse.

If we are not at dystopia yet, give it a few more years for all these America hating, sharia law loving, criminals coming over the border to set up shop. You wont be able to even recognize this country anymore.
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Old 04-30-2024, 08:22 PM
 
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There are parts of the Bay Area where nothing happens, ever.
Only once in my life have I ever raced through a meal because I was worried about my car getting smash/grabbed in the parking lot.

I’ve been to some bad parts of Chicago… this is different, and feels way more dangerous.
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Old 04-30-2024, 09:46 PM
 
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No, this is drama.
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Old Yesterday, 05:18 AM
 
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The feel of dystopia hangs over much of the USA, and I do not place most of the blame on Biden, it has been building for years.
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Old Yesterday, 06:30 AM
 
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It feels more dystopian in dense cities than elsewhere. Corporate/government surveillance everywhere you go. Surveillance in your home with all your "smart" devices, ring cameras, refrigerators, toaster ovens, washing machines, light bulbs, vacuum cleaners. Some of this stuff is foreign Trojan horse stuff that gains access to your home Wifi network and then has access to everything.

It's a lot less dystopian in Glacier National Park though.
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