A Boring Dystopia

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ICE tries to kidnap random food delivery driver off the street. He jukes them on a foldable bike. (bsky.app)

submitted 2 months ago by db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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This nation has devolved into Tragicomedy.

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[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 95 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Future pizza delivery guy outruns fascist enforcers sounds like an awesome low budget 80s movie but it's not that much fun to actually live through

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

It'd start good, but then there'd be chapter after chapter of exposition about the Sumerian language.

[–] DreadPirateShawn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 months ago

As someone who loves linguistics, you're just saying that it starts good and then continues good. :-D

[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 months ago

So it improves.

Good.

Hard to find movies that do that nowadays.

[–] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

Sometimes I feel like the only person in the world who genuinely enjoyed Snow Crash from cover to cover and it makes me wonder if my media literacy is suffering

[–] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 2 months ago

Reminds me of the first chapter of Snow Crash.