Given the trajectory of current politics, the Bell Riots are definitely possible in that timeframe.
Are you a changeling that took over negativenull or did you just switch servers?
Anyone else think that Gabriel Bell looks just like Commander Sisko?
Commander who?
That’s Benny Russell. I don’t know who this Sisko guy is but I’ve read many of Benny’s stories.
Yeah, but he didn’t end up doing so well…
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All hu-mons look alike to me
I just watched this episode a couple days ago. Some of it is way too applicable to current day, particularly the part about how it takes a huge tragedy for the population to realize that maybe we should make society nice for other people.
particularly the part about how it takes a huge tragedy for the population to realize that maybe we should make society nice for other people.
I’m not sure how accurate that really is anymore.
If Ulvade and/or SandyHook didn’t change anything, nothing else will. :/
What’s astounding to me is any of us old enough to remember 9/11 remember the phrase “9/11 changed everything.” But school after school has massacres of children and it changes nothing.
I remember it well. 9/11 did change lots of things (not for the better either), but it did galvanize the nation. Now my son has to have active-shooter drills in school and we have to act like it’s normal. I guess that is new/changed.
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Well, you don’t want the kind of change that 9/11 brought.
The difference is that 9/11 was able to be channeled into xenophobia. The same can’t really happen with school shootings. The 40k mindset of hate being a valuable and limited resource hits way too close to home.
And it’s all a tragedy.
COVID should have done something. It was a world wide issue.
Politically, it did do something. It was a useful wedge issue for republican politicians to take advantage of, at the cost of people’s lives.
I meant something good.
That’s what we’re talking about.
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I don’t know that I’d go that far.
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I guess I would call it as close to that as TV gets. I don’t think I would really describe it as nicer, certainly not a damned sight nicer, just not put together by a set designer and limited by a budget that restricted the number of extras they could hire.
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I’m not trying to say it isn’t awful. I’m trying to say that they would have made it look that awful if they could have.
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Also the show is worse in some ways. They were forced into camps that they could not leave, with no medical care, limited food, no jobs/etc.
That would definitely be some peoples preference for the current homeless, forcing undesirables into internment camps instead of dealing with the issue systemically, but that was part of the horror of the “show” setup.
LA has 40k ppl sleeping on the streets any given night too.
There’s a non zero chance Avery Brooks starts the Brooks riots in our timeline.
We SHOULD put up a statue to Avery Brooks. Why not? He’s a dang treasure.
I mean the encampments came true. We just need a stone cold daddy with a hint of crazy to get the downtrodden’s voice out now.
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