Do you think we're more likely to end up with a cyberpunk dystopia or a full-on post-apocalyptic wasteland?

Depends on how long the GOP stays in power

>>936074785 (OP)
The way shit is going, I'm gonna bet on Mad Max's post apocalyptic wasteland

>>936074785 (OP)
cyberpunk surrounded by post-apocalyptic wasteland

Your fortune: Outlook good

>>936074785 (OP)
>cyberpunk dystopia
we're already in
>full-on post-apocalyptic wasteland
soon

>>936074785 (OP)
when it comes to politics, don't bother thinking in terms of left vs. right any more, it's more rich vs. poor
protip: the rich are winning - not even a competition

>>936074931
because they are skilled and proven anti-war peacemakers? i have to agree...

>>936074785 (OP)

The fact that you would suggest a completely CONTRIVED FASHION STATEMENT as a possible future reality demonstrates your lack of real life experience, and your propensity to watch too much sci-fi garbage

If you had been paying attention to reality, you would have already realized NOTHING IS EVER THE WAY YOU THOUGHT IT WAS GOING TO BE

no matter how much you overthink something, no matter how much you dwell on it or analyze it or postulate about something:

nothing is ever as good as you hoped it was going to be

And nothing is ever as bad as you worried it was going to be

In reality, it always lands somewhere in the middle, and it's never the way you expected it to be....... NEVER

translation:
none of the above

THINGS AREN'T GOING TO GET ANY BETTER, BUT THEY'RE NOT GOING TO GET AS BAD AS YOU ARE FANTASIZING

>>936075160
Shut your mouth you dirty nigger

>>936075133

lol @ anti-war peacemakers

HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

You are either joking, or you are stupid as fuck

I'm guessing you first became 'politically aware' In early 2016?

because obviously, you don't have any real experience with the Republican party

I'm guessing you were still playing with the Red Ranger action figure when Obama was elected?

>>936075239
>Obama

>>936074785 (OP)

I'm amazed You weren't embarrassed to ask whether the world is going to become cyberpunk or not

Why didn't you mention STEAMPUNK?

Why not TILT-SHIFT where the entire world looks like a little toy, because they've blurred sections of the world?

Why wasn't EMO/GOTH an option? It's more viable than the stupid cyberpunk concept...

Why not SOUL TRAIN?... where the entire world can be described as a dance lineup, wearing bell bottoms with huge afros...

Why not 2D?.....

since you're using unrealistic categories of fashion statements that have nothing to do with reality, why stop at cyberpunk?

>>936074785 (OP)
They are the same thing. Have you not seen or noticed how terrible cyberpunk cities are and outside the cities are often ruins?

>>936075160
You're dumb.

>>936074785 (OP)
Life's short, why does it take so long?

>>936075211

keep your mouth open.....
as I unzip my pants...

LMMFAO @ "is the world going to become cyberpunk?"

You seem to think reality can be described in cheesy categories used by AI graphic image models, a visual stylization...

That's because you spent your whole life playing video games and sitting in front of that computer masturbating

You don't mention any realistic societal terms, because you've never realistically been a part of society

>>936075368
There you go again, flapping your big nigger lips as if anyone gives a damn

>>936075368
They are fashion terms but you can have brutal buildings and if an entire world is built in brutal architecture it's a brutal world and cyberpunk the same applies.

>>936075463
>LMMFAO @ "thing no one asked"

>>936075403
>Have you not seen or noticed how terrible cyberpunk cities are.....

...... Go ahead and finish the question

"Have you not seen or noticed how terrible cyberpunk cities are IN THE STUPID VIDEO GAMES WE PLAY LIKE RETARDED OVERGROWN CHILDREN, INSTEAD OF FINDING A GIRLFRIEND"

>>936075133
*Ivan enters chat*

>>936075420

...... says the inexperienced life novice, who actually thought the world was going to become CYBERPUNK

hahahahahaha

(also, don't think it went unnoticed that YOU'RE OBVIOUSLY TOO STUPID TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO ATTRACT A GIRLFRIEND)

I mean, seriously... Even down syndrome bad boys at the grocery store are smart enough to figure out how to get a girl

......... but not you, right?

Not Mr cyberpunk

>>936075507
Dude if everyone dressed up as elvis i bet you'd be stoked and shitting your pants if we all drove pink caddys with monkeys

>>936075556
got anything else, Kike GPT?

>>936075556
You're obsessed with cyberpunk.

In case you haven't noticed.....

nothing about what's been happening seems familiar, compared to anything that has happened before, as apparently all the rules have been flattened

So you can expect things to become even more unfamiliar

no matter what happens, they're going to try to convince you that things are still normal, that this is still the familiar landscape you're accustomed to

while they push a brand new version of authoritarianism

So if you can pick a fashion statement that correctly describes illiterate Hitler on a spaceship....

That's probably the closest thing you could possibly think of

One things for damn sure:
nobody going to like it, and even be loyal supporters are already realizing what a profound mistake they've made

But they're not big enough men to admit when they've made a mistake

So they're still pretending as if this was all part of the plan

meanwhile, whatever happened to that fixing the economy on day one thing?

The economy is taking a gigantic nose dive, but that's just the tip of the iceberg, compared to unraveling the Constitution, and turning the White House into a for-profit cheap advertisement, lining their pockets as devoted supporters have their life savings stolen with fake cryptocurrency offers and cheap Chinese wrist watches that say RUMP

>>936075671
yep! Stone Cold BUSTED!! You hit the nail on the head... I am definitely obsessed with cyberpunk

>>936075604

yep! Stone Cold BUSTED!! You hit the nail on the head... I am definitely Jewish and I'm a bot

>>936075577

yep! Stone Cold BUSTED!! You hit the nail on the head... whatever you just said was extremely painful and it really put me in my spot

You guys are really good at this

>>936074785 (OP)
THE CORRECT ANSWER WAS:

You can absolutely guarantee martial law WILL beef instilled

That is definitely going to be part of their plan

from that point, it's really just a matter of how they decide you will exist after being cataloged and databased and numbered

>>936075842
It sounds racist if we all had monkeys in the cat with us

>>936075133
>because they are skilled and proven anti-war peacemakers?
You have to be 18 to post here.

>which will be the more likely outcome?
>"WHAT? YOU THINK WORLD BECOME FASHION?! RAARGH!!1!"

>>936075577
by the way, the pink Cadillac wasn't Elvis's car...

everybody thanks That was his car. they associate Elvis with that pink Cadillac

nope... sorry to burst your bubble, but that was nothing more than a gift to his mother. That was his mother's car

and regarding scatter the chimp, he wasn't even born back in the pink Cadillac days

scatter came much later, and it's funny you'd mention scatter the chimpanzee in a car

because one time, on a completely ridiculous far-fetched 'goof', Elvis had this crazy stupid idea, so he spent $1 million having a stretch limousine customized, where the steering wheel was no longer connected, and it was replaced with a much, much longer steering column, and a steering wheel in the backseat of the limousine

He did this so he could dress scatter the chimpanzee like a chauffeur, and have the chimpanzee sitting up front, turning the steering wheel, as they drove to Los Angeles

100% true

It's really stupid, so obviously he must have been high as fuck when he had the dumb idea

And it turns out he only did ONCE

ONE TIME.....
He thought it would be a lot more of a spectacle, but it turns out in LA, they've seen it all, and nobody at red lights really seemed to give a fuck.

So Elvis never had scatter pretend to drive the limo again

>>936075972

when you ask the question about the monkey in the car, you literally had NO IDEA scatter the chimp was dressed up like a chauffeur, pretending to drive the limousine, just so Elvis could laugh at people at the red lights

isn't that coincidental?

And of course it's transparently obvious that Michael Jackson named the Neverland ranch after Graceland

And he got his chimpanzee bubbles, because he was obsessed with Elvis

>>936076305
love it

https://youtu.be/gioSu1ZHxrY?si=Xa-1roUyzj2toQrz

>>936076461

keep in mind that photograph is Bill Killebrew, the guy who sold the chimpanzee to Elvis

But that entire story about the limousine and the steering column it's all true

which is really not even nearly as weird as most of Elvis's other idiosyncrasies...

Like, for example...
Elvis had a big box he would carry around spilled with very very expensive jewelry.. each item in the box cost at least $35,000

He would drive around overton Park in Memphis Tennessee, in a BMW with a low profile blue police light rack on top

This was back in the '70s

He would wait until he saw somebody running a stop sign, and he would turn on the flashing lights and pull them over

they would think it was undercover police pulling them over, just for a "rolling stop" through a stop sign in a residential neighborhood

instead, they'd be surprised to see Elvis Presley get out of the car, sweating profusely, high as fuck on drugs, wearing a big thick black parka and a MOTHER FUCKING TURBAN!!! (The turban was a movie prop from the movie harem scarum)

He would pull out a pistol and point it at them..

and slurring his words, obviously wasted out of his mind, Elvis would tell them, "we don't run stop signs in Memphis. Do you understand me?"

And then he would open the box and pull out a very expensive watch or bracelet, give it to them, and jump back into his car and speed off into the night

He was the world's most famous human being

and simultaneously THE LONELIEST MAN ON EARTH

He was completely insane, but cool as fuck

And in case you raised an eyebrow at me saying $35,000 was very expensive

$35,000 in 1976 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $197,737.70 today

>>936075928
>You can absolutely guarantee martial law WILL beef instilled
I expect that to happen before Trump's term is up, so he can be installed as a dictator

by the way, I'm sure you've noticed that Trump is also obsessed with Elvis

which really isn't surprising... I've painted portraits of Elvis for a long, long, long list of celebrities, and ONLY TWO of them were not complete Elvis fanatics:

Belinda Carlisle from the band The Go-Go's

and the piece of shit lead singer of that crappy band Wall Of Voodoo

other than those two losers, EVERY celebrity I met told me the same thing:
"dude I fucking WORSHIP Elvis!!! He's the reason I wanted to be famous. The first time I saw Elvis, I knew I wanted to be a rockstar!"

But that's not the reason Trump is obsessed with him... Trump is obsessed with Elvis, because Elvis was so beloved by so many people, so famous, and every person on earth knew who Elvis was

THATS Why Trump continually compares himself to Elvis.. I've seen him compare himself to Elvis several times over the past 8 years

"You know a lot of people say I look just like Elvis"

hahahahaha

>>936074785 (OP)
Hard to tell. On one hand we have advances in technology like that woman with the bionic hand than can operate even when it's not attached, as well as Musk's push for his neuralink. On the other hand, military tensions are on the rise all across the globe.The question is, will the technologies develop to the point where we can stave off the effects of a war-torn ecological crisis, even in small pockets, or will the wave of destruction wash over all of us?

>>936074785 (OP)
Well if the world goes to shit enough that you can build an AI army to take out the bad guys and survive, you'll probably have enough resources to build an AIVillage and not starve to death in the wilderness

>>936076933
when you just green texted my words, that's where I first realized I had a speech to text typo in that statement

speech to text thought I said BEEF

sorry about that...
But yes..
absolutely yes....
I'm definitely talking about martial law in this administration. within the next 3 years. absolutely

ABSOLUTELY!!!

In fact, he was contemplating doing it when he lost the election last time It's amazing his brainwashed cult members didn't convince him to go ahead and do it

(I honestly think Trump was scared to do it, because he knew he lost the election, and I think he got cold bone spurs)

>>936077032

You are very intelligent fellow... seriously... I enjoyed reading your post

very well worded, and very thoughtful

And I'm not trying to be contrary, definitely not pulling a "point counterpoint" on you, but I simply like to remind you....

we were on because of some amazing technology in World war II, but once the war machine began, Americans were told to be patriotic we had to tighten our belts

And they rationed even SUGAR

technology doesn't really have an opportunity to make progress when people can't even obtain sugar

during wartime, the military seizes control of all those things the consumers are using

they are now diverted to the war effort

by the way, a war would be very handy for Trump, because he can BRUSH HIS OWN EGO, (the same ego that wanted a military parade, for a man who dodged the drafts with fake bone spurs)

It will have him go down in the history book that as a WARTIME LEADER... something he perceives as being heroic

But even more conveniently for them, all Americans will have to tighten their belt, and they'll stop complaining about the price of eggs and other costs of living

yep... I can feel it in my bones

It's coming

>>936077123
Yeah, I don't expect America to be a democratic nation anymore after Trump is done butt fucking it

>>936074785 (OP)
Idiocracy

>>936077320
I'm standing outside with some stray cats right now, using speech to text, and it creates speech to text typos quite frequently

I think it's worse right now because I'm outside.

would I tried to say was
"we were on THE CUSP* of some amazing technology when World war II broke out"

Not the word 'because'

but THE CUSP*

>>936077332

nope....................

and unfortunately, the change has already occurred... The citizens simply don't realize it yet, because the final pieces have yet to be put in place

But wars are FINANCIAL MATTERS More than anything else, they always have been

So it doesn't take Nostradamus to predict Trump will use a war situation to his advantage

yesterday he told a reporter "I'm not talking about boots on the ground"

of course he's not talking about it
Not yet...
The time hasn't come yet

But he's definitely going to talk about it

honestly? I'm scared for your generation
I'm scared for my son

there's really nothing about this that can possibly end well, even in the best case scenario

Even if there was some miraculous diplomatic resolution, the bull in the China shop has already damaged enough China for us to see where we're going

and for all the other countries on earth to see, as well

>>936074785 (OP)
I like greeting people

>>936074785 (OP)
We already live in a cyberpunk dystopia.

>>936074785 (OP)
I apologize, because I sincerely did not mean to derail your thread

I hope you'll forgive me

I'm going to leave now and let you guys have a nice comfy conversation without me destroying it

>>936077640
bottom is funny because they sll said that and got caught

>>936077640
Pic unrelated?

>>936077586
>honestly? I'm scared for your generation
>I'm scared for my son
>
>there's really nothing about this that can possibly end well, even in the best case scenario
>
Luckily I'm almost 40, and vowed never to have kids. Shit is gonna get bad. I guaran-fucking-tee Trump is gonna start some shit, so he can be installed as dictator, and his hoard of mouth breathing, trailer trash meth cooks will cheer him on while he does it. I think we're heading for very bad times

Cyberpunk. The earth adapts then rebuilds. However,another apocalyptic even is guaranteed to happen once they have happened in the past...but life continued

>>936074785 (OP)
My money is on a Judge Dredd style cities. The whole liberal judge thing would end quickly once they have to go out on the street themselves without backup. I AM THE LAW.