George Takei 
🏳️🌈🖖🏽We’re a long ways from a simpler time.
Anthony Dardis@georgetakei nothing false detected
Derrick@georgetakei Watchmen got too weird for me once the giant space squids started winning presidential primaries.
Victor Bogado@georgetakei
The issue here is that COVID has a high "deniability rate". Especially if you live in rural places where you don't need to see hospitals in your day to day live. And that is what bad actos could insert their denials and lies
I still believe that people can band together and help each other in calamities, when they can all see the issue at hand.
Well on the other hands the bad actors could always say that the aliens are special effects created by CIA or something. So…
Defend Democracy 🦋🌊Corrected plot: "...and then the far right wing took advantage of the mayhem. They even helped foster a self destructive counter movement within the left wing to help them take power"
Jason Robinson 🐍 🍻 🚴@[email protected] Covid and climate change :(
Cifer@georgetakei Would have agreed with you until about a week ago. Then Germany collectively woke up and remembered that, oh wait, Nazis *are* bad and to be fought.
cqd_sos@georgetakei
Keep in mind though, the US isn't "the world". I thought the global response overall wasn't that bad altogether.
Keep in mind though, the US isn't "the world". I thought the global response overall wasn't that bad altogether.
Benjamindc@georgetakei I'm also not buying any zombie movie that doesn't have a significant number of humans fighting along side them.
J.H.NoyesI remember watching this as a teen in the 90s. Cosmic Slop. Space Traders. Aliens show up and offer to solve all our problems if we give them all our black people, no questions asked, no answers given. In retrospect, it was overly optimistic--we did far worse when COVID came.
Cosmic Slop - Space Traders
John Douglas Porter@georgetakei That was my reaction when I read What We Tried. 😕
Rust Buckett@georgetakei "The world united to... stay home and wear a paper mask when in public for a few weeks to mitigate the spread of a potentially deadly virus." Yeah. I don't see us holding hands to battle an intergalactic alien threat either.
Peter Amstutz@georgetakei the aliens are like "the batteries on our mind control rays ran out after a week and we didn't even notice because people kept voting for the Aliens Blowing Up the Sun Party anyway"
Kelsey Jordahl@tetron @georgetakei they actually lost the electoral college, and polling showed that a majority of people were actually against blowing up the sun, but the incumbent was also unpopular, so nothing could be done.
Ruth O’Day
Dieu@georgetakei I found the Trisolaris triolgy a bit of a stretch when I read it. Today I consider it High Fantasy.
Christian
JeremyJupiterJones 
@georgetakei
Same thing with the world uniting to prevent another #genocide making a mockery of #NeverAgain
Same thing with the world uniting to prevent another #genocide making a mockery of #NeverAgain
Stuart Longland (VK4MSL)@georgetakei 3004 is a long time away. Plenty of time for the clueless ones to get themselves killed with preventable diseases or finally get a clue.
MegatronicThronBanks@georgetakei The world never unites and the more it inter-communicates the more it fractures. The One is a non-concept.
Personally I'm fine with that and I've always HAAATED the very idea of Group Minds.
That said, the conflicts need to go back to being purely verbal with less missiles and exploded hospitals involved.
Max™@georgetakei Screwed over every single zombie movie too, folks would be running around like "yeah, Frank is just a bit bitey, but it's not like anybody he bites started biting people, except his wife, and kids, and Paul" with some people actively trying to get bit.
RevPudDudley@georgetakei
Americans in particular would be litigating whether Earth goes around the Sun or not, before we'll vote any durn money
Americans in particular would be litigating whether Earth goes around the Sun or not, before we'll vote any durn money
Felipe 
@georgetakei aliens just have to make some small lobbying and they win