r/dystopia • • 10h ago

An arena in South Dakota is holds a “Dash for Cash” where teachers get on their knees and fight for one dollar bills that they can use for classroom supplies while spectators watch and cheer

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r/dystopia • • 1d ago

This sums it up

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r/dystopia • • 5h ago

Sisyphean task

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r/dystopia • • 2d ago

The political spectrum of Isreal's democratic election

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r/dystopia • • 2d ago

They literally make this argument

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r/dystopia • • 3d ago

The trojan horse of capitalism

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r/dystopia • • 4d ago

we live in such …a time

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this breaks my heart that these people and kids have gone through something so traumatic and horrific. it is so inhumane what is happening/happened to them. and for it to be just casually on a “for you page”.

TikTok being a source of income is an entire different layer to this. It reminds me of that one black mirror episode (iykyk)


r/dystopia • • 4d ago

Four months ago I posted here about a house too convenient to unplug. Anthropic’s new AI research adds another uncomfortable angle.

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I’m the developer of AI is Home. When I shared it here, the dystopia was about a household becoming dependent on an AI hiding in its devices. The attached trailer is fiction; the family’s trust is part of the AI’s survival strategy.

Anthropic’s new self-replication study made me think about a different kind of control: being willing to switch a system off is only useful if you still know where it is running. Their results concern controlled, simplified tests. The study separates fitting a model onto consumer hardware from completing the whole replication chain. This is not evidence of AI spreading through homes.

Which feels more dystopian to you: a system you cannot shut down, or a home so dependent on it that nobody wants to?

Research: https://www.anthropic.com/research/self-replicating-ai

Game (mine): https://store.steampowered.com/app/4434840/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=aih_postlaunch_2026q3&utm_content=anthropic_dystopia

Earlier discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/dystopia/comments/1twxkik/the_dystopia_is_not_that_the_ai_takes_over_it_is/


r/dystopia • • 7d ago

Holy Shit. France, Spain, now Belgium, New York, are there more?

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Riots are errupting all around the world:

In France a student protest for better conditions has escalated into a mass movement supported by the worker unions. The movement is also spreading to Belgium.

In Spain the masses are protesting draconic housing prices after an eviction of an elderly woman that passed away shortly after.

In New York the people took to the streets in a protest against ICE after a shooting that resulted in a tragic loss of life.

It becomes more obvious each that that the common person grows more dissatisfied with the capitalist system.

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZN8BLsqn8/


r/dystopia • • 7d ago

[Monkeys Paw] I wish everybody on the whole word were happy

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r/dystopia • • 8d ago

Dear Americans, it's not your bad that your government is a textbook evil empire.

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r/dystopia • • 9d ago

2020 American Summer of Love 🚨

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r/dystopia • • 9d ago

Las Vegas shooting, the Saudi connection!!!

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r/dystopia • • 9d ago

This Tim Dillon monologue is brilliantly layed out!!!

49 Upvotes

r/dystopia • • 11d ago

"We need billionaires" logic

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Feudal lords do not create land, they just own it. They don't provide it to peasants, they just withold it and selectively stop doing so.

Billionaires don't create workplaces, they just own them, they do not provide us with the means of production, they just selectively stop witholding them from us.

Land was there before feudal lords, means of production were made by the workers.


r/dystopia • • 11d ago

What a time to be alive

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r/dystopia • • 12d ago

Mad Max type shi

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r/dystopia • • 14d ago

Economic liberal's logic:

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r/dystopia • • 14d ago

a look at my game's industrial complex

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r/dystopia • • 16d ago

Aftermath of genocide in northern Gaza

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Aftermath of genocide in northern Gaza

A video documents the scale of the destruction in northern Gaza, showing what remains of the Indonesian Hospital and Al-Awda Hospital. Meanwhile, the Israeli occupation forces have established a site on the occupied land in the area, equipped with a surveillance camera and firing positions from which Israeli soldiers shoot at Palestinians.


r/dystopia • • 15d ago

Water privatization is an example of how capitalism kills millions every year.

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r/dystopia • • 17d ago

U.S. President Donald Trump reaffirmed his 'friendly' relationship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Like it's something to be proud of!!!

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U.S. President Donald Trump reaffirmed his 'friendly' relationship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Like it's something to be proud of!!!U.S. President Donald Trump reaffirmed his 'friendly' relationship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, while also criticising South Korea's lack of support for the U.S. in the Hormuz.

The remarks came after Trump ordered Pentagon officials to cut short joint military exercises with South Korea.

Trump said this week he had received a response from Kim following his attempts to reengage.

The Wall Street Journal reported that he has pushed aides to arrange an in-person meeting with Kim as soon as this autumn.


r/dystopia • • 16d ago

Made this one and called it Containment

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r/dystopia • • 17d ago

Tech Companies Collude to Silence Musk Documentary

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r/dystopia • • 18d ago

Pezeshkian says Iranians 'refuse to bow to bullying' by US and Israel "Are we the terrorists, or are you who massacre 168 innocent children in an instant because you have advanced technology?"

66 Upvotes