ramble81Jan 17, 2025

This world is turning out less like the movie Idiocracy and more like the series Continuum.

https://lemm.ee/post/52847079

This world is turning out less like the movie Idiocracy and more like the series Continuum. - lemm.ee

In the series, corporations get a bailout when things get bad, collude to make it worse with profits over people and then basically buy off world governments in a reverse bail out to take control of the system. With a “Corporate Congress” and all people having a “life debt”. Oh, and the time travel aspect of it is pretty cool too.

Show threadBlackPenguinsJan 17, 2025

I just finished rewatching this yesterday. It’s on Prime by the way. And as the show continued I was like “Wait, am I siding with Liber8”? The terrorist group in the show. Seriously there are so many parallels to real life.

The people with the money making our laws. Our presidential cabinet is about to be made up of billions of dollars. Other corporations are buying the government so they can have political power. Lobbying.

The first episode when we saw the first grassroots support of Liber8 trying to take down a corporation using violence I thought of Luigi and his overwhelming support by the public.

The Liber8 group has supporters and they have a peaceful protest on a school campus that are arrested because they are “supporting terrorists”. But really they are just supporting the cause, not the few violent people. Which is exactly like supporting the Palestinians. The police consider every Palestinian as a terrorist even though it’s only a few.

The time travel gets a little wonky at times but damn was it a fascinating show of the gray area. I kept flipping back and forth on who was right. And shit, the twist in season 3 I didn’t see coming and basically upended the series. Definitely worth a quick watch. 4 short seasons.

Show threadHemingways_ShotgunJan 17, 2025
It was a pretty good show that sadly got forgotten. But yes, on my second rewatch recently (In Canada at least it’s also on Tubi for free…) I was immediately with Liber8. They are the protagonists. And I think that was kind of the point of the show by the end.
Show threadBlackPenguinsJan 17, 2025
By episode 6 I was on their side lol. When they steered away from violence and won over the public I was like ok I can get on board with this.
Show threadHemingways_ShotgunJan 17, 2025
In some ways I think they always were about non-violence. Kagami clearly only resorted to the bombing when they had nothing else to lose. The female leader (Sonia I think her name was) was on that side of things as well, while Roger Cross’ character (I think his name was Travis?) was the militaristic one.
Show threadBlackPenguins
Yeah, and I hate to say it but in some cases you need violence to make any change. You can protest the companies all you want 24/7 but they’ll just ignore you and keep doing what that want. The BLM protests resorted to this because “no one was listening to us and we keep dying”. It’s not the best solution but what else is there.
Jan 17, 2025 at 4:59pmWeb
Show threadHemingways_ShotgunJan 17, 2025

I realize I’ll get downvoted to hell for saying it, but IMO anyone who says that non-violence works every time is naive.

The French didn’t gain anything until the guillotines started rolling. America didn’t get their freedom until they started fighting back. British/Portuguese/French Colonialism in Africa didn’t come to an end until the locals started rioting and in some cases flat out starting revolutions.

Anyone who says violence never solved anything hasn’t been paying attention to ANYTHING in history EVER.

Show threadBlackPenguinsJan 17, 2025
Nah people like to rewrite history in a better image to feel better. The down votes already prove that. Violence should not be the first option but when exhausted of all other options and people are still literally dying it shouldn’t be overlooked. CEOs will just laugh from their ivory towers at “all the peasants whining” and then go right back to killing more people.
Show threadMothmanDelorianJan 17, 2025
Anyone who thinks violence never changes anything has never opened a history text.
Show threadSreudianFlipJan 18, 2025

As Gramsci pointed out you need broad coalitions between key groups like educators and bureaucrats, but it has to also extend to radical action groups as allies with some social insulation between them to manage public morale and maintain an alliance.

It’s interesting what is going on in Syria right now.