this post was submitted on 04 Nov 2025
81 points (98.8% liked)

Slop.

831 readers
408 users here now

For posting all the anonymous reactionary bullshit that you can't post anywhere else.

Rule 1: All posts must include links to the subject matter, and no identifying information should be redacted.

Rule 2: If your source is a reactionary website, please use archive.is instead of linking directly.

Rule 3: No sectarianism.

Rule 4: TERF/SWERFs Not Welcome

Rule 5: No bigotry of any kind, including ironic bigotry.

Rule 6: Do not post fellow hexbears.

Rule 7: Do not individually target federated instances' admins or moderators.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
top 39 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] Kopfrkingl@hexbear.net 37 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

brave new world and 1984 with that big of an intersection

brazil not inside 1984

matrix not inside brave new world

The person that made this might be illiterate

[–] Formerlyfarman@hexbear.net 21 points 4 months ago

I mean Brazil is about bizanytine bureaucracy, while 1984 is a dumbasses idea of the Soviet union, while there is some overlap I would argue neither is a subset of the other, if anything Brazil should de the bigger set.

I do agree it has nothing to do with brave new world or the handmaid's tale.

[–] Moidialectica@hexbear.net 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I think they simply did not read brave new world but skimmed the article

[–] Moidialectica@hexbear.net 4 points 4 months ago

You fooled me matrix is in the brave new world category

[–] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 31 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

This doesn't even make any sense from the perspective of being a Venn diagram. Lord of the Flies is the intersection of 1984, A Handmaid's Tale, and Fahrenheit 451? Soylent Green is the intersection of 1984 and Brave New World? What?

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 27 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Fictional media consumption as propaganda is probably one of the most powerful things capitalism has produced to sustain itself.

[–] stink@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's a pressure release valve. Yeah this billionaire-owned hollywood-titan released a 9-season series saying rich people are bad. Now consume every hour long episode instead of doing anything about it

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 17 points 4 months ago

It's not just that. It is also where they get their education from after school.

[–] JonBonBlowMe@hexbear.net 8 points 4 months ago

Remembering that anti fascist reading list that was all fiction except for Hannah Arendt (i think? Whoever the authoritarianism person was)

[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 26 points 4 months ago (1 children)

These are just random dystopias from the latter half of the 20th century put into circles. It makes no sense.

The Matrix is equal parts Brave New World, A Handmaid's Tale and Fahrenheit 451

  • Statements dreamt up by the utterly deranged
[–] Are_Euclidding_Me@hexbear.net 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's the one I noticed too! I spent way too long wracking my brain trying to find a single similarity between The Matrix and any of those books, and literally all I can think of is that in Brave New World people are born in test tubes and also in The Matrix people are born in little pod things.

But like, that's the only similarity I could find, at all! I feel like I must be missing something, because surely there's at least one other passing similarity somewhere, these stories are all dystopian fiction, after all. Like, statistically there must be other similarities, but I sure can't think of any!

[–] Formerlyfarman@hexbear.net 2 points 4 months ago

Matrix is about people angry about living in an illusory paradise brought to you by the machines, so they go underground. brave new world is about people angry about an illusory paradise brought to you by drugs, so they go to mexico.

I would put brave new world as the subset, since it adds the idea of eugenics(so I guess in the intersection with gataca) and production of people as commodities, I don't know we're that fits.

[–] Cat_Daddy@hexbear.net 26 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

The 🇺🇦 and 🇫🇮 flags together is the pièce de résistance

[–] Cat_Daddy@hexbear.net 23 points 4 months ago

Ukronazis solidarity Finnazis

[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 22 points 4 months ago

maybe the diagram is showing what books they have in their kindle, but haven't read yet.

[–] sodium_nitride@hexbear.net 21 points 4 months ago (2 children)

A bunch of dystopian novels

Also, Brazil 🇧🇷 ♥️ for some reason

[–] Horse@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] sodium_nitride@hexbear.net 16 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I was joking, but I never actually heard of this movie before. Thanks.

[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 9 points 4 months ago

Fantastic movie about bureaucratic violence.

[–] Formerlyfarman@hexbear.net 2 points 4 months ago

Was directed by one of the Monty python guys, and another one stars there. Great movie, mc is an asshole. Living in Latin America I find it very relatable, just today i spent all morning run Ning around in order to get an id, that I already had, but somehow I need a new one.

[–] JonBonBlowMe@hexbear.net 5 points 4 months ago

Come to Brazil!

[–] Runcible@hexbear.net 19 points 4 months ago (1 children)

what is this even supposed to mean?

[–] ryepunk@hexbear.net 19 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Everyone knows the core texts of the dystopian fiction are 1984, Fahrenheit 451, brave new world, and a handmaid's tale.

Without these texts you cannot begin talking out of your ass about how you know things can get to bad places.

Certainly don't talk about more recent speculative fiction, and never mind that many of these authors' used actual historical examples to inform their fiction about how things could end up, talking about history is boring!

Now talking about a book you haven't read, that's where it's at. Especially when no one has read it and we can all collectively act like we have from seeing Simpsons and Futurama parodies of them.

When I first wrote brave new world, it corrected to brace new world, and oh what a world that would be brace-dark-cowboy

[–] Runcible@hexbear.net 6 points 4 months ago

it's just so bizarre, the groupings are (generously) barely coherent. At best this is like reading tea leaves.

[–] Rom@hexbear.net 18 points 4 months ago

Same energy

[–] ChaosMaterialist@hexbear.net 18 points 4 months ago

Look, I like dystopian fiction as much as the next guy, and yes I have used it to radicalize liberals...

But I'm struggling to figure out how all these venns add up? Did liberals actually read any of these?

[–] lib1@hexbear.net 17 points 4 months ago

I admittedly haven’t read a lot of these, but Soylent Green is about humans literally being turned into food, which I don’t think is an issue yet.

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 16 points 4 months ago

At least there's no idiocracy

when I make a novel and decide the events and consequences of those events based on what I like to write

[–] fannin@hexbear.net 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] stink@lemmygrad.ml 27 points 4 months ago (2 children)

COME TO BRAZIL 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷

[–] fannin@hexbear.net 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don’t want to, they have the most hospitalized man on the planet there

[–] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 9 points 4 months ago

Bozonaro? He has like 2-5 years at best, come here after that them!

[–] sangeteria@lemmy.ml 9 points 4 months ago

By Alaska Thunderfuck 5000

[–] brain_in_a_box@hexbear.net 11 points 4 months ago

This person does not know how venn diagrams work.

[–] 30_to_50_Feral_PAWGs@hexbear.net 10 points 4 months ago
[–] KobaCumTribute@hexbear.net 9 points 4 months ago

The only one it got right is

{wojak-nooo|"Imagine the USSR was as bad as Britain really is."} {solidarity|"Heckin pig novel about how the poor are ontologically illiterate and incapable of self rule."} {wojak-nooo|"TV is woke's fault!"}

[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

wow it's almost like movies commenting about society are somehow representative of aspects of the society in which they were created and which they were made to comment on

[–] Cat_Daddy@hexbear.net 2 points 4 months ago

Imagine, if you will, that you are a coconut perched upon a coconut tree, teetering on the brink of falling.