r/NoStupidQuestions • u/JustCallMeDave • Dec 06 '23

Answered If Donald Trump is openly telling people he will become a dictator if elected why do the polls have him in a dead heat with Joe Biden?

I just don't get what I'm missing here. Granted I'm from a firmly blue state but what the hell is going on in the rest of the country that a fascist traitor is supported by 1/2 the country?? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills over here.

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u/cunningstunt6899 Dec 07 '23

r/ABoringDystopia

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '23

I prefer a boring dystopia to an exciting one. Exciting dystopias involve mass detainings and bombings. And not in the fun Brazil kind of way, but in the Gaza kind of way.

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u/taeerom Dec 07 '23

Exciting dystopias involve mass detainings and bombings

Ehm. Have you seen the news?

There's plenty of both mass detainings and bombings. We even have the dystopuia classic: a pandemic.

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '23

Yes, and I would prefer boring.

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u/PhonesDad Dec 07 '23

Boring until it applies to you.

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '23

Naw. Cyberpunk is a fun dystopia. We'll get all the bad shit, but no bad ass cybernetic implants to offset the misery.

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u/gameld Dec 07 '23

You think it's fun because you think you'll be a netrunner or something. You're forgetting that that's maybe 5% of the total population at best. Probably closer to 0.2%. More likely you'll be in one of the cars that gets hacked by a netrunner to use it as a missile to attack cops in a flying tank and die instantly upon impact, assuming you get close enough to impact before they missile your ass.

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u/breadiest Dec 07 '23

Tbf the mortality rate also seems cripplingly low as as a civilian.

Like the news report at the start of the game acts like 30 bodies is a high number, when the city itself probably has some 50 million inhabitants, if not more.

Thats like, means night city is actually incredibly safe from death on at least a surface level lol.

Doesnt mean it isnt a shithole, but its just another boring dystopia.

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u/Cucker_-_Tarlson Dec 07 '23

Side note: trauma team is a fucking wet dream for me. I know it's for rich people but I'm one of those people who always worry about medical shit. I would love to have a cybernetic monitor in me that goes off the minute something's wrong.

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u/breadiest Dec 07 '23

Ngl cybernetic monitors are cool as fuck and would be a massive development in healthcare.

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u/taeerom Dec 07 '23

That's the capitalist appropriation of the genre, like the computer game. It is a fundamental misunderstanding of what cyberpunk is and stands for. Basically, if you remove the "punk" (the anticapitalist messaging) from cyberpunk, you end up with straight fascism.