uriel238

Well, I needed an example.

In Surviving Mars, I had a similar problem.

SM unlike the usual city builders, builds a command economy and starts with no colonists (just drones) and then they show up ten or twenty at a time. There are no higher salaries or higher standards of living; what they make for the community is there for everyone.

And then I directed them to build a university. Education was open to everyone. PHDs for everybody!

But then everyone wanted to be a scientist or engineer. It wasn't enough to be smart yet stuck with the job of grocery operator, or in freight inventory management. They wanted to use their newly developed skills, and explore strange new worlds and seek out new life and civilizations (even if in the lab rather than by starship)

Underemployment was a factor, and my custodial staff empowered with degrees in philosophy would lose morale and eventually go renegade (turn to crime) when I forced them to just continue to work the cranes and stock the grocery shelves.

The saddest trombone.

Isn't this like every guy at the Unite The Right rally of 2017? Maybe crossbred with Michael Douglas in Falling Down

I saw the President sitting down and being all frumpy rather than standing on a platform and saluting the troops as they walked by.

This is actually the dark side of the social contract. When enough of the plebians have access to bread and circuses, they're content not to stand against empire.

What happened was too many people stopped getting theirs, and voted for King Heron (the fascist autocrats) instead of King Log (the neoliberals).

If the status quo is a crisis for you, and your options are only to vote for more of the same or put everyone in crisis, it makes sense to vote Heron over Log.

That's how we got here in the US. And many industrialized nations are facing similar paradgms. In fact, the current push towards liberal representatives outside the US is because Trump and MAGA serve a stark reminder how bad it is.

Which isn't how bad it's going to get unless we can, by a sociological miracle, get organized enough to general strike.

Then we'll see regime change and reform...provided we demand it.

There will be blood, just hopefully in the tens of thousands rather than tens of millions.

So did the Brevard County sheriff's department murder anyone today? Or beat them brutally? Or otherwise dispense unjustified violence?

So it means we all get to be Spartacus.

Too quick, though a classic.

Falling into a deep canyon (or from the top of Notre-Dame) would give him a moment to think about what he's done. More so, being stuck in a lamp in the Cave of Wonders.

I am especially particular to the horror of being torn apart and eaten by hyenas (that you've just betrayed), but I've reserved that for people higher up on the Trump hierarchy.

I may be thinking of the July Revolution of 1830, in which case you're right. They're not the same, just related.

GIMP: Take brick wall, make a block of text, and then project it on the same perspective axes. I thought it'd catch attention and look cool.

I was in a hurry. I didn't catch the misspelling until it was too late.