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Conservative Who Has Been Complaining About Grocery Prices Says Harris’ Price-Gouging Ban is Communism (thehardtimes.net)

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[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

there's something to be said about satire and it's seeming fundamental relation to real life, is it the satire that creates the prediction? Or is the satire just following the current trends very closely. Maybe it's the other way around.

[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm a big fan of an author who wrote a modern day sci-fi/cosmic horror series that's a thinly veiled allegory where monsters from beyond the universe are stand ins for anthropomorphic climate change. He ended up having to scrap his last book (currently being rewritten) because the way he was going to wrap up the series was going to be a worldwide plague that made people stupider.

Then covid happened.

[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago

i learned recently, i think it was sherlock holmes? I'm not a literary scholar dont quote me, was literally just a book about how mormons suck and are bad and stinky. But actually it's a novel now.

I wouldn't be surprised to learn if that kind of thing happened more often than we thought about.

He ended up having to scrap his last book (currently being rewritten) because the way he was going to wrap up the series was going to be a worldwide plague that made people stupider.

should've published it anyway, i think that would've been funny.