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People's Union of America: New York 2098 (Part of the China 2098 series by Fan Wennan) (cdna.artstation.com)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by Des@hexbear.net to c/art@hexbear.net
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Commiepunk sicko-wistful I love the little details like the 3 arrows poster in the newstand. one for $, one for the republican party and one for the democrats. apparently the PUA is a democratic socialist state led by a coalition of the CPA and a socialist party. more art by Fan Wennan

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[-] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

CPUSAcore lol and I don't mean that in a flattering sense - America has gotta go

[-] Des@hexbear.net 2 points 11 months ago

seems like america dissolved completely and was replaced but i don't know the deep lore behind this art

[-] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 2 points 11 months ago

It's clearly just the United Socialist States of America disgost

[-] Des@hexbear.net 2 points 11 months ago

socialism or barbarism

[-] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 5 points 11 months ago

Socialism of course but the very idea of America is barbarous

[-] CliffordBigRedDog@hexbear.net 11 points 11 months ago

Leek museum

[-] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 11 points 11 months ago

NEWS.STAND

Looks like the Trots won.

[-] YearOfTheCommieDesktop@hexbear.net 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Love the huawei 5g cells

or probably 8G ig

[-] Melina@hexbear.net 10 points 11 months ago

Smile you’re on camera

Aye fuck off wank

[-] nasezero@hexbear.net 7 points 11 months ago

Keeping any form of the stars and bars in a hypothetical future communist American state is akin to rearranging Nazi Germany's flag a bit and replacing the swastika with a hammer and sickle. It is symbology that is directly tied to a deeply evil history and none of it should be preserved amerikkka

I like the walkable infrastructure, though quagsire-pog

[-] Des@hexbear.net 3 points 11 months ago

i agree but i'm assuming the artist, not being american, just pulled a hypothetical socialist flag from a historical one readily available to use

so i won't fault them. not a fan of the cpusa flag myself it kind of sucks even without the fascist baggage

[-] Annoyed_Crabby 6 points 11 months ago

Need a new bioshock in this setting.

[-] axont@hexbear.net 2 points 11 months ago

The entire game is living a normal, chill life waiting for the gunfights and magic mutant powers and nothing happens.

[-] duderium@hexbear.net 5 points 11 months ago

Patsoc bullshit.

[-] Des@hexbear.net 6 points 11 months ago

a chinese communist doing patsoc art? for all we know the U.S. was liberated by the PLA in this future

[-] Kaplya@hexbear.net 6 points 11 months ago

Honestly, your average Chinese communist is more likely to subscribe to patsoc shit i.e. strongly into Chinese nationalism and think that “woke culture is destroying the American empire” than most people’s positions here.

There’s a reason why I much prefer to hang out on Hexbear than to read some of those brainworm stuff (just to be clear, not all of them are like this, and there is a lot of diverse opinion, but this is not an uncommon take at all)

[-] oregoncom@hexbear.net 7 points 11 months ago

People in China do not care about "woke" or whatever culture wars are going on in the America unless they're gigaliberals who love America. Patsocs mostly just complain about "Anglo-Saxon Capital" and make up slurs for Ukraine and Israel supporters.

[-] Kaplya@hexbear.net 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Most apolitical people don’t give a shit for sure, but have you talked to die-hard communists? I’m not talking about party members (I have friends in the CPC and most of them are just there for the clout, or get recruited for academic excellence, but it’s difficult even to discuss basic theory with them), I’m talking about the hardcore ideologically committed communists who want China to defeat the capitalist West. lol some of the nationalist stuff they say is too much for me.

[-] space_comrade@hexbear.net 3 points 11 months ago

(I have friends in the CPC and most of them are just there for the clout, or get recruited for academic excellence, but it’s difficult even to discuss basic theory with them)

That sucks. Kinda expected to me considering that's pretty much how the Party worked in Yugoslavia too. How many party members do you think are actual communists tho?

[-] duderium@hexbear.net 4 points 11 months ago

Not if it still has that fucking flag.

[-] oregoncom@hexbear.net 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I think it is the lore behind this this guy's art. Dude probably just looked up "communist party america" and just rolled with it.

[-] duderium@hexbear.net 3 points 11 months ago

Haz had this image pinned to the top of his twitter profile for months if not years. 13 stripes = 13 colonies = nothing has actually changed.

[-] oregoncom@hexbear.net 3 points 11 months ago

Chinese patsocs didn't like his art because all the megastructures looked "too soviet" which tbf was a fair critique.

[-] GinAndJuche@hexbear.net 5 points 11 months ago

The tragedy of marine culture is a funny bit ngl, as if a socialist America would suddenly stop seafaring.

[-] oregoncom@hexbear.net 3 points 11 months ago

I think they filled in all the oceans in this guy's universe.

[-] GinAndJuche@hexbear.net 5 points 11 months ago

That’s a hilariously bad idea lol.

[-] Gay_Wrath@hexbear.net 4 points 11 months ago

excavating literally all land on earth so we can dump it into the 70% of the earth that's ocean

[-] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 3 points 11 months ago

The original artist is Groudon.

[-] iByteABit@hexbear.net 5 points 11 months ago

I don't like how industrial he makes things look but they're still pretty cool

[-] Des@hexbear.net 3 points 11 months ago

honestly i'd love to find more hopeful futurist art in other styles too

[-] Gay_Wrath@hexbear.net 4 points 11 months ago

leek museum sound sick tbh

[-] Abraxiel@hexbear.net 3 points 11 months ago

Analysis deep-rooted bad habits of ocean culture

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