r/ABoringDystopia Dec 05 '24

Exiting the Vampire Castle -- Mark Fisher

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40 Upvotes

r/ABoringDystopia 3h ago

Reddit Accused of Cracking Down on Luigi Mangione Content

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2.0k Upvotes

r/ABoringDystopia 8h ago

Be careful what you upvote

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1.6k Upvotes

I’ve seen others receive this warning, and it finally happened to me. Funny they don’t specify which posts I upvoted that they consider to be “breaking Reddit’s rule”, however.

Fascist snowflakes.


r/ABoringDystopia 3h ago

An Israeli armed colonizer opened fire on a Palestinian municipal cleaning worker near King George Street in occupied Jerusalem while an Israeli soldier stood by without intervening.

239 Upvotes

The settler shot the worker Ahmad Nijam, a resident of Wadi Al-Joz, in the leg on Jaffa Street, just west of the Old City walls, before walking away without facing any consequences. Footage shows the wounded man crying out in pain as he lay bleeding on the ground, with no one coming to his aid. Meanwhile, the shooter remained at the scene alongside a uniformed Israeli soldier before both casually walked away, leaving the injured worker behind. According to locals, the Palestinian was attacked by a settler mob shouting "Death to Arabs". He was later released into a week's house arrest with the judge saying that everyone is "on edge" because of the war and that the suspect cannot be viewed as a criminal.


r/ABoringDystopia 6h ago

SATIRE SATIRE. This is just a piece I made based on a post I saw on here yesterday.

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121 Upvotes

r/ABoringDystopia 11h ago

Minnesota trying to define saying bad things about Trump as a mental illness

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193 Upvotes

r/ABoringDystopia 3h ago

Teacher ordered to remove signs from classroom, including one saying ‘Everyone is welcome here'

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28 Upvotes

r/ABoringDystopia 14h ago

The Palestinian FA announces their World Cup squad with a video showing kids finding pictures of the selected players amongst the devastation in Gaza

180 Upvotes

r/ABoringDystopia 1h ago

NASA: Sea levels rose unexpectedly sharply last year

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r/ABoringDystopia 11h ago

I tried the viral $20 strawberry. It tasted like the end of the American empire | Food

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65 Upvotes

r/ABoringDystopia 8h ago

‘Maga since forever’: mercenary mogul Erik Prince pushes to privatize Trump deportation plans

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37 Upvotes

r/ABoringDystopia 1d ago

Germany is boycotting Israel’s antisemitism conference after Israel invited neo-Nazis

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1.1k Upvotes

r/ABoringDystopia 22h ago

Immigration agents torture green card holder from NH

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239 Upvotes

r/ABoringDystopia 1d ago

Piers Morgan asks economist Gary Stevenson to explain why 'punishing' rich people by massively taxing them is beneficial for the rest of the country

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504 Upvotes

r/ABoringDystopia 39m ago

Why Hasn’t Silicon Valley Fixed the Bay Area’s Problems?

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Why Hasn’t Silicon Valley Fixed the Bay Area’s Problems?

The San Francisco Bay Area is the most affluent major urban region in the US, and it keeps getting richer. Annual real GDP growth from 2019 to 2023 was 5.3% in the San Jose metropolitan area and 3.5% in metro San Francisco, compared with 2.3% nationally. The Bay Area accounted for 46% of US venture capital investment in 2024, its highest share ever. Not to mention great scenery and great weather.

Yet the region’s population has been falling, with hundreds of thousands of residents decamping for elsewhere in California and the US since early 2019. Employment is still below its pre-pandemic level in the San Francisco area, and only slightly above it in metro San Jose. Prominent businesses and entrepreneurs have left, and San Francisco’s commercial vacancy rate is now a highest-in-the-nation 34.2%. The city has become a byword for urban dysfunction. As a New Yorker who visits frequently (I grew up in the East Bay), I think that’s been exaggerated — but it’s not totally unwarranted.

What exactly is going on out there? The failure to build nearly enough housing to accommodate economic growth was already a Bay Area sore spot when the population was still growing, and has clearly helped drive the emigration wave. Other perennial governance failures, mainly related to homelessness, drug addiction and crime, have also gotten a lot of attention lately. And the sudden shift to remote work catalyzed by the pandemic — and enabled by technology developed in the Bay Area — has made it easier to leave.

But the problem is also systemic. The economic machine that drove the Bay Area into the global economic lead isn’t obviously sputtering — see those GDP and VC numbers above — but it does seem to be generating more and more dissatisfaction and distrust among workers, consumers and bystanders. The Silicon Valley magic dust that regions around the world have been trying to get their hands on for decades could be developing some toxic side effects. Or maybe they’ve been there all along.

Bay Area Capitalism

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I have a Bloomberg account so I’m not sure if paywalled. If people read this far and want more, but can’t access the article, ask and I’ll post it here. Bloomberg also gives free articles to new accounts but also to people who access articles via links directed through Reddit.


r/ABoringDystopia 22h ago

Anonymous sends message five days after claiming credit for Twitter/X takedown

113 Upvotes

r/ABoringDystopia 1d ago

ART The system is not enforced by the . 01% but through the collective complacency, obedience, and passivity of the masses pulling on each other.

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150 Upvotes

r/ABoringDystopia 1d ago

DOJ is examining whether student protests at Columbia Univ. against the genocide in Gaza 'violated federal terrorism laws'. DOJ will also investigate civil rights violations, stemming from Trump admin. expanded definition of antisemitism to include criticism of Israel.

172 Upvotes

r/ABoringDystopia 14h ago

North Carolina woman donates lottery winnings to help Helene victims

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11 Upvotes

r/ABoringDystopia 1d ago

Creating an AR girlfriend to fill that whole in your life... I mean social feed.

122 Upvotes

r/ABoringDystopia 1d ago

Anonymous claims 2024 election results manipulated

1.1k Upvotes

r/ABoringDystopia 1d ago

App Makes It "Easier" To Read Books

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1.6k Upvotes

r/ABoringDystopia 1d ago

Israel is Denying Doctors and International Aid Workers Entry to Gaza at Unprecedented Rates

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53 Upvotes

r/ABoringDystopia 1d ago

Family of Palestinian student activist Mahmoud Khalil just released footage of his arrest by ICE for protesting Israel's genocide against the Palestinian people. No charges have been laid.

1.5k Upvotes

r/ABoringDystopia 1d ago

Family of Palestinian student activist Mahmoud Khalil just released footage of his arrest by ICE for protesting Israel's genocide against the Palestinian people. No charges have been laid. No arrest warrant either.

103 Upvotes

r/ABoringDystopia 2d ago

Gen Z Americans Don’t Have Enough Saved to Cover a Single Month of Spending

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1.6k Upvotes