These are fucking awful times.
this post was submitted on 16 May 2025
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The Running Man.
It'll be funny and poetic until we all get to watch a contestant die for the first time during a prime time live event .... and the crowd roars and the ratings go through the roof as everyone realizes ... the gladiatorial games to the death have returned .... and this time we can stream it!!!!
Bread and circuses.
The United States is dying
Trumpflix, but that show is pay per view with the premium plus $199 a month plan. $399 pay per view of course.
The other show available is a live feed of the torture at gitmo and El Salvador
I'd pirate it and not watch it just on principle
We have the Millionaire CTE Scramble already.
You know. Football. Handegg.
Ew, but yes.
Ew.
May the odds be ever in your favor...
What the actual...
We need to DEPORT OUR IMMIGRANTS! UNLESS they Win at a TV Show THEN we can Let them Stay and I see NOTHING Wrong with That! Or they're WHITE!
-Literally EVERY SINGLE REPUBLICAN VOTER!
That is not true. Any immigrants that can spend $5 million are free to buy a fresh, hot, and newly minted social security card!
But that doesn’t buy you tolerance in the society. That’s extra on a subscription basis
I literally did a triple-take thinking I ate the onion and then realized it's not fake. Holy SHIT. Time for the 2A.
The more I watch Andor, the more I feel like a need a gun.
Coincidence, really.
And they called me a fool for having Hunger Games on my bingo card.
This article sounds like bs.
"According to the Daily Mail..."
My bs senses are tingling on this one, too. I think I'll be watching for confirmation from elsewhere before I give this much energy.
Edit: it's insane that it's even remotely believable, though. And it is believable. Like, easily believable.
those five words from an unknown third-party source should be enough to raise flags, i hope..
The Daily Mail is nit an unknown source. They are the most awful British tabloid. I give them negative trust.
The Daily Mail is nit an unknown source.
lol 'nit' indeed :P
Executions will be televised one day.
I know that I will have grim satisfaction while watching.
So MAGA wants to take away birthright citizenship and institute game show winner citizenship. This is the same government we're relying on to do the right thing in a nuclear confrontation.
I am more frightened of the Trump Regime than Stalin's in this regard. Both are evil, but one completely is completely void of sanity.
It is my hope that foreign governments are taking actions to take away the nuclear button from Trump. Maybe a deal with Qatar to activate the self-destruct if Trump attempts to give the order for a nuclear dawn?
I don't know about foreign governments - who on the US side would make those deals, given that MAGA is running the government? But our own military isn't run by robots, and they're prepared not to take stupid rash actions on command from Bonespurs. This was talked about when he took office the first time.
Then they deport the winner anyway, because citizenship doesn't matter to Trump.
There are really people out there who support this shit who think they deserve to be regarded as good people just because they're friendly on an interpersonal level.
The odds of Mr. Beast being the ringleader for this particular circus is high.
That's all they really know anyways, reality TV. Bit of a misnomer really.
Of course the admin supports dehumanizing people for entertainment. How about reducing prices on something. Like bread.
FOREIGNERS OUT! SCHLINGENSIEFS CONTAINER
Satirising reality TV shows, "Big Brother" especially, a dozen asylum seekers were surveilled by a multitude of cameras, could be fed and watched by passer-by's and two were thrown out of the country through web-voting. The way fascism looks in the 21st century: Bright. Sensational. Interactive. Funny - and frightening.
20th century fascism was characterized by a thick layer of self importance and respectability to hide a vulgar core.
21st century fascism is just vulgar through and through.
Scenes envisaged include one in San Francisco, where the immigrants are sent down a mine to collect the most gold
In Cape Canaveral, Florida, the hub of NASA, contestants would rush to build and launch a rocket.
In Hayward, Wisconsin, they'd struggle to keep their balance on logs.
I thought you were being facetious
Just adding some relevant facts. Not the onion.
sigh
I have the outline of a plot where Kristi Noem gets spit roasted by Mike Lee and Mike Johnson.
You mean like... Over a fire?
Does she die at the end? Can season 2 be MTG?
May the odds be ever in your favor.
Squick Game
I miss when my country wasn't parodying itself