Reactionaries: "That's because of them dang commies!"
Reminds me of an ad/news program in Cyberpunk 2077 where the newsreader was telling the viewer about the astonishing illiteracy rates1 of the NUSA2, or at the very least, Night City.3
Seems like the real USA is slowly heading to that direction as well.
1 - I don't remember the exact rates, I think she said 1 in 4 people in the NUSA is literate
2 - New United States of America
3 - which - by the way - is located in California in CP2077's world. Prophetic, huh?
We've lived in cyberpunk for a while. It's just unevenly spread
Yeah, without all the cool gadgets and neon lightings.
Regardless, I hope that cyberpunk will become post-cyberpunk at some point.
Damn, I thought Cali was supposed to have better public education than the rest of the country. No water, no air, and no education? Surprised people still live there at this point.
Funding for education in the state has been cut many times over the last few decades. when I was in grade school (in CA) there were like, maybe 20 kids in each class. Now it's closer to 40. My girlfriend's mom is a teacher and routinely has to spend her own money to buy supplies for her class. And charter school/voucher bullshit is being pushed pretty hard here. I got a pretty good public education but gen Z and younger are probably in for a rough ride.
Better Call Cuba
Lol the funniest part of Marxism Leninism to me is how literally every ML is like “wait shit, this population is struggling with literacy? Nah fuck that, we building schools and teaching kids and adults to read” like from Hoxha to Stalin to Castro to Mao to Minh everyone recognizes illiteracy as an evil of class struggle
That is terrible
Reactionaries: “California is literally communist!” AES: “we have 99.99% literacy” California: “we only have 76.9% literacy”
one of my friends has recently started calling the state "Commiefornia" and I want to be like "Bro, you have no idea how much I fucking wish that were the case"
