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[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

May the odds be ever in your favor.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

So MAGA wants to take away birthright citizenship and institute game show winner citizenship. This is the same government we're relying on to do the right thing in a nuclear confrontation.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I am more frightened of the Trump Regime than Stalin's in this regard. Both are evil, but one completely is completely void of sanity.

It is my hope that foreign governments are taking actions to take away the nuclear button from Trump. Maybe a deal with Qatar to activate the self-destruct if Trump attempts to give the order for a nuclear dawn?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I don't know about foreign governments - who on the US side would make those deals, given that MAGA is running the government? But our own military isn't run by robots, and they're prepared not to take stupid rash actions on command from Bonespurs. This was talked about when he took office the first time.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

20th century fascism was characterized by a thick layer of self importance and respectability to hide a vulgar core.

21st century fascism is just vulgar through and through.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

The odds of Mr. Beast being the ringleader for this particular circus is high.

[–] [email protected] 132 points 3 days ago (1 children)

These are fucking awful times.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Scenes envisaged include one in San Francisco, where the immigrants are sent down a mine to collect the most gold

In Cape Canaveral, Florida, the hub of NASA, contestants would rush to build and launch a rocket.

In Hayward, Wisconsin, they'd struggle to keep their balance on logs.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I thought you were being facetious

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Just adding some relevant facts. Not the onion.

[–] [email protected] 86 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago

Bruh, I watched the movies recently, and this is literally my first throught

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 days ago

And they called me a fool for having Hunger Games on my bingo card.

[–] [email protected] 80 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 50 points 3 days ago (3 children)

It'll be funny and poetic until we all get to watch a contestant die for the first time during a prime time live event .... and the crowd roars and the ratings go through the roof as everyone realizes ... the gladiatorial games to the death have returned .... and this time we can stream it!!!!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Bread and circuses.

The United States is dying

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why does my bread keep going up in price then?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

If bread's too expensive you can always eat cake.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Trumpflix, but that show is pay per view with the premium plus $199 a month plan. $399 pay per view of course.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

The other show available is a live feed of the torture at gitmo and El Salvador

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

We have the Millionaire CTE Scramble already.

You know. Football. Handegg.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

Ew, but yes.

Ew.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 3 days ago

May the odds be ever in your favor...

What the actual...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is like a really shitty version of The Running Man.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Executions will be televised one day.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I know that I will have grim satisfaction while watching.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 days ago (1 children)

We need to DEPORT OUR IMMIGRANTS! UNLESS they Win at a TV Show THEN we can Let them Stay and I see NOTHING Wrong with That! Or they're WHITE!

-Literally EVERY SINGLE REPUBLICAN VOTER!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That is not true. Any immigrants that can spend $5 million are free to buy a fresh, hot, and newly minted social security card!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

But that doesn’t buy you tolerance in the society. That’s extra on a subscription basis

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

The more I watch Andor, the more I feel like a need a gun.

Coincidence, really.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 days ago

I literally did a triple-take thinking I ate the onion and then realized it's not fake. Holy SHIT. Time for the 2A.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

FOREIGNERS OUT! SCHLINGENSIEFS CONTAINER

Satirising reality TV shows, "Big Brother" especially, a dozen asylum seekers were surveilled by a multitude of cameras, could be fed and watched by passer-by's and two were thrown out of the country through web-voting. The way fascism looks in the 21st century: Bright. Sensational. Interactive. Funny - and frightening.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We deserve Trump. He truly represents us.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 18 hours ago

Well, 40% of us

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

God damn, being true... I consider myself quite the imaginative and creative person, but these folks have me beat.

Still, props to these people - if they applied all this creativity and effort for good instead of evil, we'd already be living in an utopia, there wouldn't be hunger or poverty in the world, I dare say. Instead we're gliding down into dystopia.

Just when you think we've hit rock bottom they'll yet again prove you wrong - as they say, "where there's a will, there's a way", especially for evil.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This article sounds like bs.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

"According to the Daily Mail..."

My bs senses are tingling on this one, too. I think I'll be watching for confirmation from elsewhere before I give this much energy.

Edit: it's insane that it's even remotely believable, though. And it is believable. Like, easily believable.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

those five words from an unknown third-party source should be enough to raise flags, i hope..

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The Daily Mail is nit an unknown source. They are the most awful British tabloid. I give them negative trust.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago

Then they deport the winner anyway, because citizenship doesn't matter to Trump.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

Of course the admin supports dehumanizing people for entertainment. How about reducing prices on something. Like bread.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago

There are really people out there who support this shit who think they deserve to be regarded as good people just because they're friendly on an interpersonal level.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That's all they really know anyways, reality TV. Bit of a misnomer really.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I remember during the zelensky ambush at the white house that DJT said it would make great TV as well.

Clown country.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Rename country to Panem?

I mean, this is a clownshow, might as well go full Bread and Circus.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

these are people not entertainment

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Squick Game

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