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[-] magnor@lemmy.magnor.ovh 8 points 1 year ago

vs The Expanse: we are headed for some bleak imperialist nonsense but humanity's salvation will come from... Nevermind, we're fucked.

[-] roofuskit@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Just most of us, except Amos. Amos will be fine.

[-] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

He is that guy

[-] AlexisFR@jlai.lu 0 points 1 year ago

The expense always looked like almost utopic to me.

[-] magnor@lemmy.magnor.ovh 2 points 1 year ago

Truly ? What aspects of it ?

I mean they do have universal basic income on earth but apart from that humanity is all kinds of fucked. And it doesn't exactly get better as the story progresses.

[-] AlexisFR@jlai.lu 1 points 1 year ago

The fact that the earth is even united and not completely screwed is already a great start. It was even recovering from climate change before Inaros.

[-] magnor@lemmy.magnor.ovh 1 points 1 year ago

The earthers are not doing that bad in the beginning that is true. But the rest of the system have it rough.

[-] teft@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

The earth is united like the United States is united. The tribes just got bigger is all. Instead of NATO vs BRICS, the Expanse universe has Earthers vs Martians vs Belters. And people are suffering hard on earth as evidenced during Bobby’s trip to the ocean.

[-] Nacktmull@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

You mean dystopic right ... right?

[-] AlexisFR@jlai.lu 0 points 1 year ago

Not at all. It always looked like something in between for me. Humanity is still struggling but moving forward, and most people live under various kind of regimes but no big bad Empire.

[-] magnor@lemmy.magnor.ovh 1 points 1 year ago

Well the belters have it pretty rough and Mars is basically totalitarian. And without spoiling anything I'd suggest you keep reading, it is worth it :).

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