Cyberpunk dystopias are depressing because we have all of the bad stuff (corporations running everything) and none of the cool stuff (cybernetic augments).

With any luck MAGAts will self-select in removing themselves like they did during COVID.

Same, does it go by another name or something?

I guess it’s easier to tell when someone has a physical injury, which probably removes some of the stigma around talking about it.

Yup, pretty much the premise of the comic. When someone has a visible injury, (most) people will show empathy and acknowledge it’s a problem. But an invisible ailment like depression? Meh, no big deal, get over it.

One of many futuristic “dystopias” that actually ended up being far too optimistic compared to reality.

“This plague…the rioting is intensifying to the point where we may not be able to contain it.”

“Why contain it? Let it spill over the schools and churches, let the bodies pile up in the streets. In the end they’ll beg us to save them.”

Reality: “In the end they’ll refuse to be vaccinated anyway.”

Twitter to Threads is like leaving Derry for Jerusalem’s Lot.

Ah, the classic Zelda location the spoom tsol.

Probably. The apple doesn’t seem to have fallen far from the tree.

No, not like that!

Same!

He also played the aptly-named Goldmember.

Oh, you’re right, I forgot his name is spelled differently. Zweibel is a real surname, so I assume they chose it because it’s so similar to Zwiebel.

Boy, what a reversal we have now. Around when Brexit finally happened, the US kicked Trump out of office. It felt like we were going in the right direction and the UK wasn’t. Now the UK has put Labour back in power while we’re going all-in on fascism. Fuck. We should have just stuck with the monarchy.

They can’t do it legally without changing the law. Of course, the only laws that will matter soon are those that the GOP supports.

Fuckin’ Ico, always knew he was traitor!

other m didn’t happen

That was literally the quote by my username in the Nintendo subreddit.

In Our Dumb History, the founder of the Onion was said to be Friedrich Siegfried Zweibel. “Zweibel” is German for “onion.”

EDIT: “Zwiebel” is “onion,” not “Zweibel.” Almost certainly chosen due to its similarity to the word, though.

“Aren’t people going to see through that?”

I actually never interpreted it that way - I though it was just showing it getting worse - but that’s a good point and you may be right. It could be showing that he “fixed” the problem by pretending it doesn’t exist as much as he can around others, since none of them take it seriously anyway. Of course, that won’t help anything and will likely make it worse.