Isn’t this how RoboCop starts.
Big part of robo cop 3 I think.
It’s also like Chapter 4 in Parable of the Sower
We already have those; ZEDEs in Honduras & I think India used to have one called Lavasa & it failed😂
What? Oh man, I lived in Comayagua ages ago and never heard about this. Is it a fairly new thing?
You can watch this video If you wish<br> ZEDE = Zone for Employment & Econonomic Development in Honduras
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Did any other Bioshock fans out there just get a bit weirded out by this. Not the live action we hoped for…
His everyone seen this?
Yep. It’s my go-to video explainer for “freedom cities” aka network states.
This is what happens when you let white people read Atlas Shrugged in college. smh.
We should finally eat the disgusting rich.
Did these guys play cyberpunk? Like that game pretty much embodies what these guys are asking for.
They would love that. That game is all about execs essentially being royalty. That’s like their wet dream.
I thought the same thing. Scary AF
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I think Musk has talked about the game, and obviously every message was completely lost on him and his main takeaway was that “Arasaka is cool. I want to be that.”
That is exactly what they want.
“Blade Runner would drive a cybertruck!”
Freedom Cities, even the name is a lie.
Cities where they’d be free to do whatever they like? I see no lie. You’ve just been sold the idea that freedom was free. Turns out in the US it isn’t.
Freedom is one of those reverse concepts.
Is the man living on the street more free than the man driving his BMW and living in suburbia. Maybe!
There is always exclusivity within exclusivity, picture a Russian doll with the smallest doll, if you can get to it , being the most exclusive or in this case the most FREE person.
Living in a Freedom city probably will be a lot less free than the rich think.
They won’t be free to wear what they like or build what they like. They will have to conform.
Anyway they will all probably end up fighting each other as one person’s freedom is another person’s annoyance.
It’s been opposite day for a while now…
So what, Irvine?
Is anybody actually watching Severance? An underlying theme of the last episode was that this kind of crap specifically is a bad idea.
Frickin’ wild that Apple TV+ puts it out at all, honestly…
Dystopian AF.
One of these ghouls that I rarely hear brought up in these discussions is Steve Jobs’ widow, Laurene Powell Jobs. I believe that she is involved in the effort to build something like this in Solano County, California. She’s supposed to be a big Democratic Party supporter, so I suspect that the effort to create corporate cities is not an exclusively Republican project. I wish there was more reporting on her.
The US Democratic party is also a neoliberal right-wing party, just a bit more moderate.
I think it’s hilarious that they are so dumb that a satire movie like RoboCop is regarded as blueprint for the future. How cartoonishly evil do they have to be?
They tend to take those fictional tales of warning, and use them as blueprints. Like, they read “Don’t Build the Toment Nexus” and decided that building the Torment Nexus was a grand idea.
Do you want Night City? Because this is quite literally how you get Night City.
I’m starting to think that’s what they want.
Always has been. Cyberpunk (the genre) was a warning. We didn’t listen.
A genre built in the 80’s and 90’s, a commentary on the inevitable path of neoliberalism?
No way!
Time to become Johnny Silverhand then.
And isn’t Night City one of the better places to live there?
Yes, partly because there’s still competition for the territory.
Or Rapture
Every time an oppressor wants to enslave people, they use “freedom” as an excuse.
Exhibit A: People’s Liberation Army. Its not a conquering, its liberating 🤣
Or Exhibit B: Maga
How do people ever get fooled by this? Its so dumb
