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I might suggest the Chronicles of Amber, and the whole Pern series. The Harper Hall Series of Pern is great. Revolt in the Year 2100 is good, as is The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.
The problems we face are bigger than just Donald Trump; they include the Republican Party—Without their support for Donald’s agenda, we wouldn’t be here.
The meaning of this sentence is that if you remain silent today, you may not find a topic to talk about tomorrow or not at all.
What he wants to say in general is that when there's opportunity, he has to talk and put his ideas
The hillsides ring with "Free the people"
Or can I hear the echo from the days of '39?
With trenches full of poets
The ragged army, fixin' bayonets to fight the other line
It is said there is nothing new under the sun.
History is full of stories identical to what is happening in the US today.
This too shall pass.
Eventually the fall of the US empire will be written into history books.
You might like this antifascist, dystopian trilogy.
Rising authoritarianism worldwide inspired me to write an allegorical trilogy on the perils of fascism: 1) unnecessary war, 2) failed democracy & resulting climate crisis, & 3) racially-motivated subjugation. See: https://amazon.com/dp/B0B1JNBCTK?
I have WRITTEN them, and they were so outside even spectrum of fiction to be believed. And, yet, it is happening. I gave up writing fiction last year because nothing I could write is crazier than what P2025 is bringing. I had such a lack of imagination, & I had too much faith in Americans.
And I have been reading books on the Holoy since I was nine years old and that was 50 years ago. I’ve watched numerous documentaries about the it and how Hitler came to power, and many resistance movies, too. It’s the same playbook.
I find it insanely ironic that the people screaming '1984' back when they were told being openly bigoted and racist wasn't okay... But now that we are ACTUALLY seeing aspects of that book coming out... they're suddenly silent...
Everyone in this country should read a book about the cruelty that slaves had to endure. Are we not a modern society that strives to be better than the day before. We must rise up
Although according to some people, once I started talking, I didn't stop...long before I read science fiction. My mother said I had "Yes, but...." and "Why not?" at expert level. (
I'm starting to wonder if liberals are all talk, because we're long past talking and way into the fighting. We've been taking gut punch after gut punch and no one is thinking to fight back. We should be planning to murder ICE agents in their homes in front of their families but instead we're just...
It's weird, I'm new to Bsky and I have no idea what you're replying to. No matter how hard I click on your reply it doesn't give me context so I have no idea what you're warning me about.
My conspiracy theorist father thinks the Simpsons are part of the illuminati because of their "predictions." I keep trying to tell him that if you lampoon society for decades then eventually society catches up with satire.
all the messed up movies from when we were kids are now true or about to be
up next Soylent Green(it was set in 2022)
They Live and Idiocracy jumped way ahead in line
once they start making ICE Terminators it's over for everyone including the Nazi's who made them.
Life is mirroring fiction. Or is science fiction a road map of our future? Can we change it? Can we make things better? Or are we looping a real-life Wheel of Fortune: things go up things go down.
Actually the invoking the insurrection act without any reason is a declaration of civil war because any democrat can be arrested by any federal agency. The military would have to choose to kill citizens or get rid of the president who caused this. Frighteningly close.
I feel the same way about my fascination with the Holocaust starting when I was in middle school. I knew I was studying this stuff for some reason; now I know it was to be informed and vigilant about the same thing happening in my own backyard. Once you know, you cannot unknow and stay silent.
Yes. While teaching the horrors of the Holocaust in my English classes I learned that the Danish silently protested by wearing a single safety pin. I have worn one since 2015. They quietly saved many people.
I do too. I recognize my own complacency in failing to step out of my belief that this could never happen. Yet, the current resident occupied the office once in 2021. I feel it's shame now. I am in the streets and peaceful; come join me.
The timeline writers for this living nightmare certain did their reading! Practically every dystopian plot point was been introduced since the orange demon descended his gold escalator.
People get caught between fear of violence and fear of being ratted out if they complain. And this government has DOGE and Palantir stealing our personal information.
It was the result of a resurrection by fascist military against the liberal, democratically elected government. Franco’s forces were aided by Hitler’s Germany and Mussolini’s Italy.
The civil war that followed was a carnage. But they fought.
All great books - and same impact on me too. Didn’t mean it as a criticism, just a comment that Jess and others are watching LA, and it feels very very close to this book.
Wow, you writing a response on social media is really effective too. Good job protecting the Nazis. Hopefully you'll get the same treatment they did once WWII was over.
That may be
but I am really fed up with the torrent of posts that point out how bad things are, but don't offer one word, literally, of advice on what to do, concrete practical suggestions for how to slow trump maga
so piper maybe a good guy, but we all really really need more ideas on what to do
My parents and their families survived wars and famine and I will not forget what they endured; they told me some things about what it was like, but there were some things that I know they could never tell me about. Especially my dad.
It’s terrifying to witness how willingly the government is implementing AI without any safeguards in place, and the immoral unhinged CEOs leading its development.
Heard someone ask if Tyler Perry’s latest Netflix ‘Straw’ is based on a real-life story, which reveals how ridiculously blind and sheltered some white folks are. Women, especially poor Black single-household females, are bombarded on a daily basis with survival challenges. Thus, ‘the last STRAW’.
And now you know why Republicans want book banning a/burnings and the erasing of history. FFS, they lie about something we all watched 5 years ago and are getting away with it!!
I 've reached the point of feeling like the real lesson of all the history and dystopian fiction I read is that people are too goddamn stupid to learn from the thoughts and experiences of others just as I only now truly understand the full cruelty of Apollo's sex-pest with power curse on Cassandra.
IF YOU ARE PROTESTING, COVER YOURSELF IN THE AMERICAN FLAG. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 optics are everything!! The media and public will have no choice but to see the govt enacting violence against AMERICANS.
Take our flag back from the fascists and flip the script on them!!!
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The shock is not simply the catalog of constitutional infractions, which goes on queasily, or the course of change, which has been costly and swift. It’s the scarce challenge that these upheavals have received and the alacrity with which institutions have indulged the White House’s whim.
IF YOU ARE PROTESTING, COVER YOURSELF IN THE AMERICAN FLAG. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 optics are everything!! The media and public will have no choice but to see the govt enacting violence against AMERICANS.
Take our flag back from the fascists and flip the script on them!!!
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Yes they did. And less than 50% of Americans voted for him. What’s your point? Are all Americans responsible for the actions of the 49%? Are all veterans responsible for the actions of the 65%? (Who make up approx 1% of the population btw, so veterans aren’t your problem)
over 50% of Latino men voted for him too, and look what’s happening to them. Your argument doesn’t hold water. Lots of people made a terrible mistake and lots also won’t ever admit they regret it. If even a few stand up, that’s better than none.
The problem is 65% of veterans who overlooked his draft-dodging & treasonous history. And the 45% of Palestinians who seemed to forgotten Gaza's children or 57% of white women who could swallow a racist rapist or the 67% of Cuban who told themselves a treasonous racist was a safe bet.
By all means use it. All i ask is that you use the newest, revised version (below). It has a small disclaimer asking for credit of the creator, KMaCK8848@, which is me.
As I created this text version, the original image file, and the poster, I can check the best option for generating T-shirts. Give me a week to pull that together.
Thanks for the reminder. You are spot on and the effect is so clear and cannot be tainted by biased reporting. The flag stands for freedom and truth and the Republicans don't own it.
BINGO. I get it that people don’t want to be identified and want to wear all black to cover up. But add a layer of American flag to that and you are instantly now on the side of the freedom fighter and there is literally no way to spin that in the media other than Americans protesting oppression🇺🇸
Same here. I have a whole collection of dystopian SF.
It never goes well.
But, being fiction, the stories often end happily enough.
Reality, however, does not have to have a happy ending.
The peaceful phase must, and only will, last as long as the courts are still following the law. The rump lost 4 big court cases again on Fri.
Please be the peaceful voice of reason. Call your Congressional rep an Sen
Every Day. State your grievances succinctly. Thank the person and say goodbye.
We ALL need to SPEAK UP, not just Amer. , but the world !! We can start with this world-wide money grab. And selfishness and UNcaring for each other has GOT TO STOP. Rev. McConnell
All professors are not socialist. Sorry but they aren't. If you went to college you would know this. And most history professors are not socialists...they are historians...and a different breed. Mainly libertarian, along with political scientists.
Actually my history professors had me read, Gulag Archipelago (i had already read it in 8th grade), The Rise of the Third Reich, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Grant, Carnage and Culture, A people's history, killer angels, southern Storm. My sociology professor s,
Had me read social construction, Sociological imagination, Durkeheim Suicide, DuBois Souls, the sociology of science, the power elite, economy and society, Foucault Discipline and Punishment and of course Marx and Engels. Sociology professors do not assign history books.
You have essentially proven my point. Have you ever read the Federalist Papers, Common Sense, Democracy in America, The Road to Serfdom, Sacred Fire, The Forgotten Man, The 5000 Year Leap? How about actually reading the Declaration of Independence?
That's is so heartbreaking. It us beyond belief that the country that had elected senators and representatives to represent us as one united country is sitting back and allow what is happening.
Same. Except I’m still in a camp Gorom, South Sudan. I’m a trans refugee barely surviving while the world looks away. When I hear stories like yours, I know we’re not so far apart. The system never really stopped.
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I thought Brave New World and 1984 were books only about Stalin's Russia. Not a future America stealing kids from their parents & a President asking the Army to shoot into a peaceful crowd & a sociopath traitor in the Oval Office directing psuedopatriots to overthrow the U.S. Government. - Drew
You’re welcome. I wrote the unit after studying with USHMM’s historians and survivors. The history resonated with my students, especially the incarcerated young men who knew exactly what it was like to do the bidding of their “big homies” in their gangs.
I grew up on Sci-Fi too, read 1984 and we've all witnessed the greatness of Capitalism. Seems to me there's a better way to deal with people than a dystopian future...
This explains the problem with most white progressives and liberals. You romance oppression and conflict because you've never experienced it in a genuine form. It's fun for you. There are no consequences for you.
Even if you've read nothing on the topic we have a revulsion to being suppressed. The reason dystopian horror resonates so well is because none of us are okay with being controlled like cattle.
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#TrumpCheated #RiggedElection #TrumpForPrison #MAGACult #SaveDemocracy #Retribution
https://www.filmsnest.com/movie/the-fall
Register for elections ASAP, and show up to vote.
What he wants to say in general is that when there's opportunity, he has to talk and put his ideas
Same
Or can I hear the echo from the days of '39?
With trenches full of poets
The ragged army, fixin' bayonets to fight the other line
History is full of stories identical to what is happening in the US today.
This too shall pass.
Eventually the fall of the US empire will be written into history books.
Rising authoritarianism worldwide inspired me to write an allegorical trilogy on the perils of fascism: 1) unnecessary war, 2) failed democracy & resulting climate crisis, & 3) racially-motivated subjugation. See:
https://amazon.com/dp/B0B1JNBCTK?
https://youtu.be/YJSehRlU34w?si=y9uUwFIXc_yPubpR
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501756054/pranksters-vs-autocrats/#bookTabs=1
US MILITARY REMOVE the
"trumpy dumpy NAZI REGIME" COMPLETELY!!!
"THEY" are TRAITORS to our COUNTRY - the USA!!!
up next Soylent Green(it was set in 2022)
They Live and Idiocracy jumped way ahead in line
once they start making ICE Terminators it's over for everyone including the Nazi's who made them.
Life is mirroring fiction. Or is science fiction a road map of our future? Can we change it? Can we make things better? Or are we looping a real-life Wheel of Fortune: things go up things go down.
He warned me of the Dems get power in 2026, it’s all going to happen. Completely ignoring that Trump already is.
Be Silent No Longer by The Brickley Bray Project.
https://www.broadjam.com/songs/TheBrickleyBrayProject/be-silent-no-longer
The civil war that followed was a carnage. But they fought.
Boomers tended to write Utopian sci fi.
Could be cyclical; Orwell and Huxley were writing before Boomers.
We create narratives in response to trauma. Then the simulation adapts?
but I am really fed up with the torrent of posts that point out how bad things are, but don't offer one word, literally, of advice on what to do, concrete practical suggestions for how to slow trump maga
so piper maybe a good guy, but we all really really need more ideas on what to do
Watts, MLK, Rodney King. Even as a kid I saw this coming.
We cannot back down now.
Be brave!
Take our flag back from the fascists and flip the script on them!!!
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Which is all part of why this administration and its state-level droogs are so intent on banning and censoring books.
Take our flag back from the fascists and flip the script on them!!!
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I feel like that distinction is important, because, though we know they *should* have voted, they did not. But they also did not vote for Trump.
And we need a new pledge …
It never goes well.
But, being fiction, the stories often end happily enough.
Reality, however, does not have to have a happy ending.
Please be the peaceful voice of reason. Call your Congressional rep an Sen
Every Day. State your grievances succinctly. Thank the person and say goodbye.
1. Get out there. Today, tomorrow, no later than the 14th.
2. Don’t be violent.
That’s it.
What's everybody reading these days to understand and prepare for what's happening/coming?
Just remember when the monsters come all you can do is scream.
They are banning books & cutting school budgets & library funding just as fast as they can.
Bless their crooked, hateful, blackened little chicken hearts.
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Being controlled like cattle.