I’m currently watching Handmaid’s Tale for the first time (the show, not the movie. I haven’t seen the movie). I’ve never read the book either so no spoilers please. Anyway, it’s eerie how many things are lining up. Like you said, supposed to be a warning, not a guidebook.
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canadian_commie@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
This is the worst timeline. 1984 was a warning not an instruction manual.
BurntWits@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 hours ago
I feel like I’d have an existential crisis if I started watching that show these days. Good luck.
Canconda@lemmy.ca 11 hours ago
And Idiocracy was a comedy not a documentary
Gsus4@mander.xyz 11 hours ago
it was too optimistic
Archer@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
If only we lived in a world where the President of the United States went and recruited the smartest person in the world to solve the most difficult problems
Gsus4@mander.xyz 7 hours ago
In a way, that is what DOGE attempted to be…by people who don’t understand what smart is supposed to mean…and ended up getting grifted, because that is what they all think it means.
Canconda@lemmy.ca 10 hours ago
They really did us a disservice being fucking hilarious the whole time eh
notwhoyouthink@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
The more time goes on, the more I feel this.