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Re:Trump threatens to 'close' down social media platforms by bilbo0s on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @10:00AM (#23323354)
What's sad is that the movie was meant as a joke. (I think?)

And here we are? How did this happen?

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Re:Trump threatens to 'close' down social media platforms by pinopinopino on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @10:11AM (#23323529)
The rabbit hole goes deeper.

If the movie describes reality then it does it pretty well and then apparently reality can be described as a joke.

If the movie satires reality and we cannot discern the satire from reality then reality was already a joke to begin with, we just didn't know.

The question is not how did we get here or how did this happen? But how do we get out of here? :)

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Re:Trump threatens to 'close' down social media platforms by Ididntdothis on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @10:04AM (#23323424)
This is not the first time that what was thought of as satire was actually an astute observation. This happened a lot under communism. A lot of jokes were just plain facts.
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