Tldr (edit I did actually read) it’s subjective, yes. Descriptors of genres aren’t objective facts. Entirely my point. Well elaborated.

But I’m pointing out that if some random teen came up to you to ask for suggestions of “post-apocalyptic shows”, I’m pretty sure you know they would be disappointed when watching Picard having tea and discussing philosophy when all they wanted to was half-naked people in leather duking it out in a blood-dome, you know?

I’d that Dredd is considered that post-apocalyptic by people’s who don’t really know the canon. More like dystopian future. But hey, like I said, subjective terms. Use them how you think best.

I’d agree calling ST “post-dystopian”, perhaps. And I’m not arguing that people diegetically would not have thought “the world to have ended”, but again, subjective, imo.

If one of these people gets shot from a distance and people say “what a pussy, didn’t even attempt to defend himself”, it’s to point out how dishonest their rhetoric

That’s a decent point, noted.

But given my reply also includes comparisons to Superman and the Flash, and I presume one of them couldn’t dodge it, then I’m sort of supporting the taking that shitty rhetoric to the absurd, even though I may have been too stoned to get the first as a complete joke.

Sacha Baron Cohen gets tons of respect for me, that shit he pulled was actually dangerous.

and therefore it’s completely trivial to protect yourself. It’s not.

100% agree. I enjoy guns and I waa in the military but I probably wouldn’t get my own gun licence currently due to some doagnosis I have. And I don’t think that’s a bad thing. Because while I might consider myself a responsible person, I know tons of others are. One friend had his guns taken away due to always getting into fights in bars. And that’s fucking right.

I can stand up to people on the street because I don’t have to worry about them literally murdering me with a few flicks of their finger.

That might work in a robbery or something, where a gun is used as in “do what I tell, because I’ve got a gun”.

But as I assume the bullet wasn’t subsonic, he literally could not have even heard the shot before getting hit.

Even if he had the speed of the Flash he couldn’tve dodged. Would’ve needed Spidersense to see it before it was coming.

And these fascist cunts are no superheroes lol

Edit “you could say that in this instance the good guy with the gun DID take out the bad guy.”

Well a guy of some sort took out an evil guy for sure but dk if he’s that good himself. I don’t judge him for this murder but might for others

Saved by the bell is more than lonely from boxing. Apocryphally about those safety bells but theyre an overblown myth by all estimates

Not to defend these cunty fascists, but how exactly do you suppose anyone — barring Superman — “fights” a surprise bullet to the neck?

By the time he heard the shot he was already dead.

The Black Plague did away with roughly half of Europe’s population, but was that counted as the world having ended? No. Did people at the time think so? Probably yeah.

Sounds pretty post-apocalyptic to me.

It’s a post-scarcity meritocratic society brimming with life and good values and which posses near godlike technology and interstellar travel.

Put that sentence in front of someone and I dare say a majority will not describe it as “post-apocalyptic”.

Yes, there have been wars, and 21-22nd was probably worse globally, but to someone living in 1913 Western Europe, it may have felt that the world was ending. But I’m sure just because Europe was devastated you don’t consider yourself to live in a post-apocalyptic Europe, do you?

It’s more a descriptor of the setting than going by any actual canonical facts. Kinda how “Outlander” is technically classified as science fiction even though it’s basically 100% historical drama.

I think if someone didn’t know what ST was and you told them “post-apocalyptic”, they might be a little disappointed.

Q’s argument is that humanity is and always has been equally barbaric, an argument which he supports by showing troops from both WWIII and WWII.

And talking about plain brutality, I think WWI might’ve been even worse, especially for some of the battles.

Tldr define “apocalypse”

Edit but also yeah I know it’s been in the family for centuries. That’s kinda my point.? If there’s still inheritance and exceedingly rich people, then… eh. Well there’s a reason we don’t get a lot of stories from modern day earth.

I don’t agree.

I know you’re prolly referring to the WWIII, but it’s never talked about much differently than WWII or WWI, if you don’t account for the intensity of war changing. Like we consider WWI and WWII rather similar and for people living in a Utopia 200 years from now, a third WW about 100 years apart isn’t that different.

I don’t recall anyone ever saying the world ended during WWIII. Sure, First Contact, humanity has a definite post-apocalyptic vibe, but eh.

I guess you’re technically not that wrong, but I wouldn’t personally use that as I don’t think anyone refers to the world having ended in the 21st century.

And the main setting is definitely utopian to the point chat we’ve never really gotten that many stories set on the Earth of that time, because it’s kinda hard to write. Sure we can somehow explain how everything is equal but Picard still owns a massive vineyard with workers and is clearly well-off ans and it can’t all just be from the merits hes gotten as an adult?

I think the earlier guy was asking if he’s ever left the US because “travel widens the mind”, but when people like that leave the country, they don’t even really need to “leave the country”. A private plane, constantly driven by his own people, eating his own food, etc etc etc.

Like Trump can go anywhere in the world and still not leave his cosy little McD and Fox&Friends bubble.

The initiative was first proposed by Charlie Weimers, an MEP from the right-wing European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), as a symbolic measure “to declare that our right to freedom of speech cannot be extinguished,”

Well no, right to free speech isn’t curbed here. The people are just reserving their right to kill off hypocritical dogwhistling would-be fascists.

I was about to comment on how no-one ever actually uses the 2A to do any good but then I gathered from context that I’ve slept through half a news cycle.

Fkin a

Nice reference.

Btw Ali G came up nice. As in Sacha wasn’t left to be defined by Ali, went on to become Borat (which was also like the 20 years ago), has done some seriously good drama shows and now is looking like this:

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Misspelled? Letters used to cost money, you know. 160 chars/msg.bst to shrten evrything

Not really. Just look up the some slang words from 2000’s you’ve never heard of but what everyone in my generation would’ve been constantly using.

Ofc some of them are still around, but most aren’t.

Yup

Phrase what’s cooking? “what’s up, what’s going on” is attested by 1942. To cook with gas “do well, act or think correctly” is 1930s jive talk.

The expression “NOW YOU’RE COOKING WITH GAS” has bobbed up again — this time as a front page streamer on the Roper Ranger, and as the banner line in the current advertising series of the Nashville (Tenn.) Gas and Heating Company, cleverly tying gas cooking to local food products and restaurants. “Now you’re cooking with gas” literally took the gas industry by the ears around December 1939 — Remember? — when it flashed forth in brilliant repartee from the radio programs of the Maxwell Coffee Hour, Jack Benny, Chase and Sanborn, Johnson Wax, Bob Hope and sundry others. [American Gas Association Monthly, vol. xxiii, 1941

Welcome to the internet

“Before we start, your honor, would you… would you care for a protein bar?”

This is genuinely way more accurate than it has any right being.