We’re still living in it.

I would in fact state that the worst years were around 1997 with the release of GoldenEye 007 until 2006 with the release of the Nintendo Wii. All I remember of that era were shooters, shooters, shooters, space shooters, racing games, racing games with shooters and shooters. It was the era that went from decent 2D graphics to bland and ugly 3D graphics and all the creative effort went into realizing the 3D graphics.

The video game industry is not like the movie industry, comic book industry or the music industry that are slowly dying because people stopped buying physical copies of them.
And the lack of interaction of movies and comics is slowly making them outdated.
The music industry has become the concert industry, which has turned the small crowds of celebrity worshipers mixed in people wanting to do drugs, sex and/or rock’n’roll into pure crowds of the biggest celebrity worshiping fans.
And even that is probably dying due to AI.

You convinced me:
I changed Pizza box to Mop and put Syringe in second place.

This is the way I see it:

Primary sector: Agriculture - Sickle - Manufactures edible goods
Secondary sector: Industry - Hammer - Manufactures non-edible goods
Tertiary sector: Service - Mop - Helps people through transporting goods, repairing goods, cleaning, healing organisms, cashiering and catering.
Quarternary sector: Authority - Pen - Provides Law and Order through Government, Justice, Police, Education, Political, Media and Mental support (Psychiatry & Religion)
Quinary sector: Finance - Banknote - Gambles
Sextary sector: Automation - Cogwheel - Destroys jobs

As the service sector is large and sextary sector petite bourgeoisie than the service sector I suggest the following:

Mop and Pizza Box

I do think we’re not there yet though.
Both objects are accurate but I feel like we need something more aggressive to show that we’re revolutionary.
Hammers and sickles are both tools that can be used as weapons.

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Changed Judiciary to Authority.
Changed entertainment media from service sector to authority sector so now all media is in the authority sector, as plenty of entertainment shows have tried to and sometimes successfully driven people to adept to their political world views or even driven into political action.

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On second thought, perhaps I’ll replace syringe with pizza box. It evens out the sexes, both mop and syringe are practiced most often by women (cleaning lady and nurse), while transportation of goods is more often preferred by men as carrying goods can sometimes be physically demanding.

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I changed the Syringe to mop in the Tertiary sector as suggested by mech,
although I have to say that nurse is very common job,
which is why I chose the syringe.
Same goes for delivery person, but I’m betting on it being automated away faster than nursehood.

I crossed out cogwheel as a symbol for the proletariat as I realize that I consider a subsector of this (engineers) to be one part of the ruling class (the other being scholars) within socialism and thus not the proletariat.

Two

Clickbait.

And the most annoying type of clickbait is, I’m not sure what their official names are, but I’ll call them smudge dots.

It’s those little red dots Android/iOS puts on apps whose function is to get you to click on their apps so that you must use the apps the way they want you to, just so that you can remove the smudge off your phone which they’ll add back anyway.

It’s what prevented me from returning to these OSes at all cost.

Communism didn’t die when the current strongest nation in the world, China, is a socialist nation, something the Soviet Union never achieved and we’re watching it getting stronger by the day.
The only thing that’s stopping communism from being spread out to the rest of the world is that the US via it’s allies (mostly Republican Chinese) still leads in tech.

I don’t know, but what I **can **tell you is that
I have noticed that there had been an awful lot of Iranian in European media in Europe flying pro-monarchy flags and by awful lot, I mean all protests in at least four Western countries outside of Iran, and that it’s presented by EU media as normal or semi-normal when it should not be.
We live in the 21st century, not the middle ages or renaissance times.
Then, there’s ‘the Iranian flag replacement on X’ by Elon Musk.
I guess he likes seeing the return of monarchies too.

I don’t understand why she’s not saying “The insurrectionists are pro-monarchy. Iran’s government is not”.

I am in favor of theojudicial “no kings” above “pro-kings”.

Disagree.

Beavis and Butthead or Dumb and Dumber were both entertainment similar to Idiocracy.
All intended to make the insecure about their own intelligence feel smart about themselves.

But like Idiocracy, I don’t see Sagan challenging a broken system. Not politically nor cosmologically, which he could have for both.

The EU is doing worse. Our leaders are just serfs to the empire who will defend the China-Taipei with their lives, a civil war seperatist region of China, but will yield Greenland to the US without much of a fight.
It’s pathetic and this self-humiliation pride will be the fall of our government systems sooner than that of the US.
The wealth of the EU economy depends most on the German auto industry and our politicians have abandoned them while favoring Tesla that few can afford while the rest of the EU population keeps buying more and more “Volvos” and “MGs” in order to sooth and delude themselves that they’re still buying European brands.

1. Like the other poster said, Roma and Syrian refugees are not put into cages and we do not round them up. They get care.

2. EU nations do not have a two-party system and other parties know better that fascists should not be given power even if they win elections, which is what’s been happening, unless they can form a majority coalition of fascist parties, which will be much harder to do for them.

3. No. We are still serfs to the US. In fact, I don’t trust some of the Syrian refugees, since I’ve seen the Iranian ones flying King-flags at rallies recently.

4. I’m not sure about the poster, but you are right about the ‘not doing better’ part, but the situation here is different. We’re going to economically fall apart soon thanks to the unwaivering serfdom to the US by our politicians, yet we are simply too close to China and to a lesser degree Russia not to be influenced by their economic and military might and it’s a matter of time before we’ll see a reverse iron curtain fall here.

The idea that large-scale state violence and repression are foreign to US soil is a dangerous fiction.

Large-scale state violence and repression is more Anglo-American than apple pie.
And the article is still racial and xenophobic as it doesn’t understand the situation in Afghanistan, Iran or China.
Each of these countries have had to deal with movements equal to the Jan 6ers,
a group of radical anti-democratic people that wants to take their country a step backwards from the current one,
except in their countries, these groups are more emboldened by US monetary support and therefore more violent.

What’s happening in Iran for example are “pro-king” rallies instead of “no-king” rallies,
so the protesters in Iran fly directly into the face of what Minneapolis protesters stand for
and it’s the Iranian people and their government that is fighting back against these monarchists.

Meeting people is the most important thing.

If everybody at ICE protests showed up with masks and a gun would there be more or less violence?

Yes

I like pictures with bright colors in them.
To me that’s a sign towards a bright present and future.

All those war, hunger and oppression photos just depress me.

I remember someone saying in a youtube comment or elsewhere that it’s worse in Israel
as they’d arrest five-year olds.
Well there ya go…

China still dominates.

Fleur, Jasmijn, Sanne

Seemed like there was always some stand out video or event ranging from chocolate rain video, nyan cat, amazing horse, I like turtles, why does the Internet seem so stale lately?

Youtube algorithms preferring to show you legacy news sites and paid influencers instead of promoting regular users.

ICE hunts US-citizens with migration background

FTFY