This is how Carl Sagan would try to explain today’s world
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And delete your Facebook account. It’s just generally better for your mental health, it aids in stopping the cycle of billionaires feeding everyone information by whoever pays them. And then it stops unwanted contact from family. They can still post about you, but they’re screaming into an empty void of data centers at that point
The Trump family has made a billion dollars every month he’s been in office
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-trump-family-presidency-wealth/
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/briefing/trump-family-business.html
They are reaping money from the poor.
Do not discount how much wealth they are gaining from being in power, regardless of the treasury. They are sweeping property acquisitions among all their other methods of making money.
It’s been around for almost 4 years. Don’t use rental modems.
Yeah and the article doesn’t mention it, yet MAGAts are funding it
It’s the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment
Movement. They don’t just want some private cities. They want the full collapse of nations to turn into kingdoms run by billionaires.
Funding maga is just a small part of Peter thiel’s plan
And there’s a reason he’s always been so buddy buddy with JD Vance who is now the vice president
I think having encountered the alien structure would have been enough after it docked with his ship, with the voiceover of meeting an alien. The actual alien encounter would have been so much better only revealed in the film IMO, but as you said, what I think is best may not sell tickets
The machine needs meat
Yeah we need someone like “Big Balls” back in the government for some oversight
The answer is the second panel, not the third