Once Were Warriors

Once Were Warriors is Alan Duff’s harrowing vision of his country’s indigenous people two hundred years after the English conquest. In prose that is both raw and compelling, it tells the story of Beth Heke, a Maori woman struggling to keep her family from falling apart, despite the squalor and violence of the housing projects in which they live. Conveying both the rich textures of Maori tradition and the wounds left by its absence, Once Were Warriors is a masterpiece of unblinking realism, irresistible energy, and great sorrow.

Dysfunction, alcoholism, domestic violence.

But it’s not funny, sorry OP.

Pulp Fiction

Terminator 1 & 2

Alien and Aliens

Yep. Came here after they banned my BDSM community.

Reddit sucks.

Nice

LOL sounds like Delivery Unlimited certainly has its limits!

The furpocalypse !

Reddit is a really good site - have you tried it Grimreaper? I think they would like you

No embarrassing is something like shitting yourself in public or what RayGun did at the Olympics.

You are fine.

Yeah I am a big fan of Cormac McCarthy and I haven’t read The Passenger yet so I will be.

Probably find some more dystopian fiction since that is great as well. Maybe it will be The Hunger Games

Newspeak: “In the 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (also published as 1984), by George Orwell, Newspeak is the fictional language of Oceania, a totalitarian superstate. To meet the ideological requirements of Ingsoc (English Socialism) in Oceania, the Party created Newspeak, which is a controlled language of simplified grammar and limited vocabulary designed to reduce a person’s ability to think critically.”

See also: “the officer’s gun discharged” instead of “police shot the man”

“A lay person is very easily impressed by a large number of followers,” said immigration lawyer Elektra Yao, founding partner of the Yao Law Group. “You don’t need to be a rocket scientist,” she said.

This world seems to get more anti-intellectual by the day.

Also as Snot Flickerman points out there are some real “The Handmaid’s Tale” vibes here and I would not be surprised!

You already did this one: https://lemmy.world/post/38119616

If they are very devout they have probably been taught that homosexuality is a sin. They didn’t know what to say so went with “that’s nice”

That’s what I would expect anyway.

“The rich are too rich, and the poor remain poor… (and people) lack confidence in their future, so they may be unwilling to have children.”

Sounds like it’s the same problem everywhere.

So question: will people accept the growing divide between rich and poor or will there be revolutions at some point ?

What would it take to make people rebel anyway ? I guess when there is nothing left to lose e.g. already starving to death ?

It was one of the main inspirations for the Matrix so it sort of has been made.

But yeah I could see a Neuromancer movie being good too! I can’t remember exactly how similar Neuro was to the Matrix because it has been so long but it did have the concept of “plugging in” to the network at least

edit Neuromancer TV series is coming soon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromancer_(TV_series)

Time to stock up on Zooper Doopers !

“I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters,”

Or the support of the press !

Some do apparently or they wouldn’t keep making the videos. Same thing for people who send out phishing emails and other scams. It must work sometimes.

“Spiritual gurus”, “self help gurus”, “crypto gurus”, “business gurus” they tend to be full of shit because if they were as good as they claim they would be making money with their skills and insights instead of making YouTube videos.

Why people fall for it just because someone claims to be an “expert” I will never understand, but I guess you could say the same about many things: advertising, politics, religion etc.

Police and government should not get to decide what we can protest or not.

Because according to Chris Minns, pro-Palestine rallies were to blame for the Bondi attack (it’s definitely not religious extremism everybody!!!).

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/dec/19/anti-protest-laws-extraordinary-powers-nsw-premier-linking-gaza-rallies-bondi-terror-attack-ntwnfb

“The New South Wales premier wants parliament to grant his government “extraordinary powers” to effectively ban protests for three months, claiming the “implications” of pro-Palestine rallies could be seen in the Bondi terror attack that killed 15 people.”

…

“When you see people marching and showing violent bloody images, images of death and destruction, it’s unleashing something in our community that the organisers of the protest can’t contain,” Minns said.

“The truth of the matter is, we can’t risk another mass demonstration on that scale in NSW. The implications can be seen, in my view, on Sunday.”

The novel that never stops being relevant.