It hooks them up to a VR simulation of 1950's america and they're the abusive husband to a hot wife and two kids. Racism is alive and well and the USA and white people by extension run the world.

They can never leave, much like the matrix they're locked into the simulation for life but it's more humane than wholesale genocide because let's face it, a lot of people in the USA deserve it.

  • duderium [he/him]
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    17 minutes ago

    I feel like there’s potential for a good story here…ah, wait, it’s just The Truman Show.

  • Belly_Beanis [he/him]
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    1 hour ago

    What if we're already in that simulation and it's been 70 years so the chuds are still trapped? What if it really is the Immortal Science so the virtual simulation children turned out to be commies anyway?

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    3 hours ago

    The Animatrix taught me that this is the most humane option for irredeemably murderous chuds.

  • Bobson_Dugnutt [he/him]
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    3 hours ago

    I had a similar idea for dealing with capitalists: make a video game for them that simulates stock trading and all the "work" they do to "run" their companies. Maybe hire a few actors to be their "assistants." They can also have a siloed version of twitter full of bootlicker bots that enthusiastically agree with all their dumb ideas.

    • TheDoctor [they/them]
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      2 hours ago

      Sometimes I worry that due to a clerical error I have been placed in this simulation as one of the workers

  • TerminalEncounter [she/her]
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    3 hours ago

    On the one hand, the worst thing that can happen to someone is that they get everything they ever wanted

    On the other hand, the matrix taught us that even the Paradise simulation couldn't work because the human mind would rebel.

    Instead, allow me to present the Samsara Midnight Realm Cube. They get roughly the median life in america with all the attendant miseries and temporary happiness that implies, BUT it's just slightly degraded and worse. Like the movie Wristcutters.

    • mathemachristian [he/him]
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      58 minutes ago

      But they don't want a paradise, they want hell.

      They don't want happiness, they want others to be miserable. They would forever chase that feeling of power they imagine they would get when they yell at someone, or beat their wives up in exactly the right circumstances. Except this perfect circumstance where they would completely dominate someone in a righteous way never occurs for some reason, it's always tainted by something... But they never know quite what it is.

    • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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      1 hour ago

      The matrix is fiction, it depicted that in the movie, it doesn't really seek to prove the same irl

      • TerminalEncounter [she/her]
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        1 hour ago

        Oh shit didn't realize we had blue pills here, yes yes the matrix was just a movie and dorpheus was just a prank in the office

    • the_post_of_tom_joad [any, any]
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      2 hours ago

      Wristcutters

      Great movie. The soundtrack, the humor, [redacted] as a hippy commune leader haha! Not to mention other surprise actor [redacted]. Thanks for reminding me of a favorite.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      2 hours ago

      How about they get a place to be angsty and whine about kids these days and how much they hate The Wife but at a slow simmer that keeps their leaded brains engaged? Sort of stuck in an eternal 20th century sitcom.