Half-Life 3 announced. America collapses before its released in 2031

  • material_delinquent
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    11 months ago

    Biden and Trump die on the podium, most likely at the same time

    X re-renamed to Twitter

    Hillary loses to Trump's vice president pick

    turtles are declared an antisemitic dogwhistle

    botched coup attempts

    Russia makes small, but noticeable gains against Ukraine by the end of the year.

    Sanctions are declared, backfire

    German government fails and they have to do early elections, CDU gets into power, SPD becomes their junior partner, afd uses their 20 something percent to get through shitty laws whenever the SPD won't vote for them

    von der Leyen decrees shoot on sight on EU borders, critics will say it doesn't go far enough

    An additional pandemic

    More Gazan children are murdered, somebody (most likely Fetterman) explains why that's a good thing and extremely humanitarian

    Vaush explodes and takes out Haz somehow

    • Gosplan14_the_Third [none/use name]
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      11 months ago

      German government fails and they have to do early elections, CDU gets into power, SPD becomes their junior partner, afd uses their 20 something percent to get through shitty laws whenever the SPD won't vote for them

      The FDP's vote on the traffic light coalition actually ended with a narrow majority against dissolving the government, so it seems it will not collapse yet. The rest seems about right, except for the assumption the SPD won't vote for the worst laws "with stomach pains" (as is often mocked).

      • material_delinquent
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        11 months ago

        imagined being named after the most annoying part of transit. I guess spd will be like democrats (TINA for voters)

        • material_delinquent
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          11 months ago

          also don't underestimate their cravenness, they might still collapse in summer once Merz farts in Scholz' general direction and fdp chuddies lose it