this post was submitted on 11 Nov 2025
156 points (100.0% liked)

Political Humor

1559 readers
332 users here now

Welcome to Political Humor!

Rules:

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

Or dystopian sci-fi writers understood the possible ramifications of increasingly powerful corporations, abundant surveillance tech, and manipulable information networks, and wrote their works to warn the world "hey, this hasn't happened yet but it totally could so, you know, don't let it". And we all nodded and said "yep, that sounds super bad, sure would be bad if that happened lol" and now we're all shocked to see it unfolding.