Things continue getting worse, but slowly, with increasing hypernormalization keeping most of us from noticing how bad everything has gotten. The capitalists effectively stomp out protests with legal and physical deterrents and neuter the nascent US left by hamstringing our organizational efforts. Fascism is well and truly here in force and the majority of Americans are unable to even perceive it.
None of the Green New Deal happens. Parts of the east and west coasts become uninhabitable, people cope by moving inland and making memes about the Bay Area/Manhattan Atlantis. Thousands of people die, but that’s pretty normal at this point. The area around the gulf gets swallowed by the sea, no one notices except for when they complain about the climate refugees coming in and bringing crime and dirt and taking jobs.
Elon Musk and Google get an effective duopoly on urban development and are hailed as saviors in the climate crisis. All the new cities built to house the white flight coming in from the coasts are company towns, filled to the brim with surveillance gadgets, theme-park style distractions, and robots that have completely replaced service workers. Nobody wealthy owns cars unless it’s a Ferrari, Bently, or similar, you just call an autonomous flying drone to come pick you up and drop you off. Encryption is outlawed, the only legal encryption algorithms are licensed to corporations by the NSA for use protecting corporate assets, IP, and communication. Section 203 is gutted and websites, now liable for what their users post, clamp down hard on any forms of criticism or dissent, going so far as to ban negative reviews of products and services.
Weed is legal, but no convictions have been overturned and everyone is still in prison, and actually acquiring it is a complex and annoying, akin to going to the DMV today. Abortion and several forms of hormonal contraception are illegal. Drug dealers have started selling illicit plan B.
Things continue getting worse, but slowly, with increasing hypernormalization keeping most of us from noticing how bad everything has gotten. The capitalists effectively stomp out protests with legal and physical deterrents and neuter the nascent US left by hamstringing our organizational efforts. Fascism is well and truly here in force and the majority of Americans are unable to even perceive it.
None of the Green New Deal happens. Parts of the east and west coasts become uninhabitable, people cope by moving inland and making memes about the Bay Area/Manhattan Atlantis. Thousands of people die, but that’s pretty normal at this point. The area around the gulf gets swallowed by the sea, no one notices except for when they complain about the climate refugees coming in and bringing crime and dirt and taking jobs.
Elon Musk and Google get an effective duopoly on urban development and are hailed as saviors in the climate crisis. All the new cities built to house the white flight coming in from the coasts are company towns, filled to the brim with surveillance gadgets, theme-park style distractions, and robots that have completely replaced service workers. Nobody wealthy owns cars unless it’s a Ferrari, Bently, or similar, you just call an autonomous flying drone to come pick you up and drop you off. Encryption is outlawed, the only legal encryption algorithms are licensed to corporations by the NSA for use protecting corporate assets, IP, and communication. Section 203 is gutted and websites, now liable for what their users post, clamp down hard on any forms of criticism or dissent, going so far as to ban negative reviews of products and services.
Weed is legal, but no convictions have been overturned and everyone is still in prison, and actually acquiring it is a complex and annoying, akin to going to the DMV today. Abortion and several forms of hormonal contraception are illegal. Drug dealers have started selling illicit plan B.
I can keep going, but it doesn’t get better.