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Covid just made us all realise we know a lot more people than we thought we did who would hide a zombie bite.
More like we know a lot more people that would have zombie bite parties because they “trust their immune system” and simultaneously don’t believe in the zombie hoax.
Also there are people who will intentionally smear their zombie bite juice on you because ain’t nobody gonna trample on their freedom.
Kiss that damned zombie you coward. LIVE WITHOUT FEA—BRAAAAAAAINS
Explains how zombie apocalypse movies happen
You didn’t know that already? The cute to a zombie bite is a bullet to the head and no one wants to be shot.
This is a great comment
And yell at you for asking if they have ever been bitten.
I still can believe the world to rally together when it means to kill something.
The enemy must be simple though. Too complicated or invisible or something and the conspiracy nuts will take over.
You wouldn’t be able to see the aliens. The best you would be able to do is get blurry pictures of their ships from telescopes if you’re lucky. Conspiracy nuts would do fine.
Any civilization able to get to us, would be advanced enough that a carrier task group bombing the uncontacted people of the north sentinel islands would be a fair fight in comparison.
We would see a blur in our telescopes followed by death or whatever they want to do to us.You’re absolutely right. I was describing the hypothetical scenario where the aliens just want to fuck with us by blowing up the sun or something. If they wanted us dead it would be lights out before we know they were there.
or whatever they want to do to us.
Anal probing, most likely.
Poor aliens just think our ass is the mouth. Where they come from bipeds are assmouth to assface
SomethingSomething else*I thought the same thing. I could see the world banding (mostly) together for a fight, but not to just make life better.
I recently watched Utopia, British show about a super secret group putting naughty stuff in a vaccine.
Their plan hinged on every person being so afraid of a pandemic that everybody takes the vaccine. This was made pre COVID of course, because we now know that would never work.
Sounds like right wing porn.
it’s actually a really great conspiracy thriller. I’d fully recommend it. I’m sure right wing weirdos could read too much into it and find a message they agree with, but they do that with everything anyways.
I didn’t find it overtly political beyond money = corruption = shady people being able to get away with shady stuff
Covid proved to me any libertarian hope/dream I had wouldn’t actually work because people would never get together to do the right thing as a group.
People getting together for the common good is just a government, the exact thing libertarians hate.
No not necessarily since government = force. The hope of libertarians is that they would do it out of a mutual interest in protecting others. The whole do what you want as long as it doesn’t impact me. That argument was proven fucked by the actions of the pandemic. That’s what I’m talking about.
Worse, there have been two “libertarian cities” over the past few years that suffered an awful fate. First thousands of people moved to a town in NH and then voted themselves into all city positions. They shut off the government, had everything collapse, and returned to where they came from a few years later when it turned out that fire fighters are nice and bears roaming the town (cuz one person’s hobby was to feed them donuts and they are libertarian so they can do that dontchano). In AZ, they built a community without any infrastructure specifically to avoid taxes and government control–they were buying water from another community until that community said they needed the water for themselves, leaving them with nothing.
I think Don’t Look Up got it pretty right, a lot of people would be willing to band together, if not the majority of the world. But politicians and billionaires would ruin it for everyone even if it means everyone dies. When the time comes we can still band together, and take down the people we need to
You were smart enough to see that it’s really a fetish.
What does this even mean? What does COVID have to do with Libertarianism?
Every strong libertarian I know, and there are several in my family, is strictly anti-mask and anti-vax. It boils down to “you can’t tell me what to do” and nothing else.
COVID, when the world partly united to make a cure and a vaccine in quite a record time?
Yep, scifi will need to amend the trope to “united just enough…”
If they had made a cure we wouldn’t be living through the biggest wave since it first started, years later, with hundreds if not thousands of people still dying from it daily around the world (never mind the millions left disabled)… 🙄🙄🙄
It’s pretty much over for most of the world. Now its more like the reoccurring Flu outbreaks every year.
It has become endemic, like the flu, AFAIK people are not dying en mass and the hospitals are not overwhelmed with covid cases.
Academia and pharmaceutical companies united to develop the vaccine while the shitmunchers were rioting in the streets because epidemiology is confusing
And ut couldn’t have possibly been because of your authoritarian reach or anything like that. You were 100% perfect and harmless, and did no wrong whatsoever.
Individual governments and pharmaceutical companies aren’t enraptured by the same degree of propaganda as your basic idiot citizen.
Forgot the name, but that movie about tentacled aliens invading earth with like 12 monoliths and a linguist tries to understand them
The way world cooperation is portrayed is kinda reflecting. Not perfect, but somehow realistic
Arrival. Great flick.
tyvm 🫡
More like the world unites and then the United States turns it into some pointless political issue.
I would have turned the movie off if the narrator said, “The people were terrified, remaining six feet apart. And everyone was hording toilet paper.”
…has ruined sci-fi…
No, just ruined the generic good vs evil trope.
There’s a lot of good sci-fi (books/movies/series) out there that has a more nuanced take on humans and society.
OP desperately needs to read The Expanse. 🤦
This is more believable, I think.
Humans require an external threat to unify against. An alien invasion could provide that. Without some great enemy to oppose, I do not think we would come together willingly.
So, who’s up for false flagging an alien invasion to get earth away from a dystopian path
Ozymandias?
Humans can’t even unify against trump. I’m telling you you’ll be seeing factions worship them aliens while some will be hiding inside their bunkers isolated from everything
This reminds me of the factions that form in the strategy game Terra Invicta. Some want to kill the aliens, some want to worship them, some want to study them… and my favourite faction, The Initiative, want to use first contact as an opportunity for profit, and they achieve this by sabotaging the other factions and spreading misinformation among the general population.
yeah i think in 2020 everyone got fed up because it wasn’t like a tangible, visible threat. it’s just invisible, everywhere, all the time. you have to desensitize to some degree to live a semblance of a life.
if there were alien snipers posted up everywhere it’s a much different matter
Fun fact, the sun is already blowing up. Checkmate Aliens!
In the real word: Aliens don’t exist.
On Lemmygrad: The Sun deserves it for defecting to the west!
Nice. I’d have used lemmy.ml as my target, they are a bit angrier over there.
Alien invasion is probably the only thing that would make (most) humans band together.
When you have giant spiders trying to eat everyone, people will stop caring that their neighbors leaves blew into their yard, or your skin tone is a few shades darker than someone else’s.
Eight legged freaks?
I haven’t seen that film in years
Aren’t those just irradiated spiders?
I don’t know… My take is that the stupidity of extremely polarised politics that exists in the US will reach a point where it self destructs within the next 50 years.
In a lot of countries, people listened to the experts. They accepted the lock down. They wore the masks. Almost everyone that didn’t have a medical reason not to, got vaccinated.
If you think only the Americans have highly polarized politics and fucked up during COVID, I have a bridge to sell to you…
In a lot of countries they also don’t though. Especially fast developing countries that have first world countries pouring tons of money in like Africa.
American perspective.
The only kind that matters. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Not to worry, we had our fair share of COVID nutjobs in the Netherlands as well. Including a whole political party.
