We’re still living in it.

I would in fact state that the worst years were around 1997 with the release of GoldenEye 007 until 2006 with the release of the Nintendo Wii. All I remember of that era were shooters, shooters, shooters, space shooters, racing games, racing games with shooters and shooters. It was the era that went from decent 2D graphics to bland and ugly 3D graphics and all the creative effort went into realizing the 3D graphics.

The video game industry is not like the movie industry, comic book industry or the music industry that are slowly dying because people stopped buying physical copies of them.
And the lack of interaction of movies and comics is slowly making them outdated.
The music industry has become the concert industry, which has turned the small crowds of celebrity worshipers mixed in people wanting to do drugs, sex and/or rock’n’roll into pure crowds of the biggest celebrity worshiping fans.
And even that is probably dying due to AI.

You convinced me:
I changed Pizza box to Mop and put Syringe in second place.

This is the way I see it:

Primary sector: Agriculture - Sickle - Manufactures edible goods
Secondary sector: Industry - Hammer - Manufactures non-edible goods
Tertiary sector: Service - Mop - Helps people through transporting goods, repairing goods, cleaning, healing organisms, cashiering and catering.
Quarternary sector: Authority - Pen - Provides Law and Order through Government, Justice, Police, Education, Political, Media and Mental support (Psychiatry & Religion)
Quinary sector: Finance - Banknote - Gambles
Sextary sector: Automation - Cogwheel - Destroys jobs

As the service sector is large and sextary sector petite bourgeoisie than the service sector I suggest the following:

Mop and Pizza Box

I do think we’re not there yet though.
Both objects are accurate but I feel like we need something more aggressive to show that we’re revolutionary.
Hammers and sickles are both tools that can be used as weapons.

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Changed Judiciary to Authority.
Changed entertainment media from service sector to authority sector so now all media is in the authority sector, as plenty of entertainment shows have tried to and sometimes successfully driven people to adept to their political world views or even driven into political action.

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On second thought, perhaps I’ll replace syringe with pizza box. It evens out the sexes, both mop and syringe are practiced most often by women (cleaning lady and nurse), while transportation of goods is more often preferred by men as carrying goods can sometimes be physically demanding.

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I changed the Syringe to mop in the Tertiary sector as suggested by mech,
although I have to say that nurse is very common job,
which is why I chose the syringe.
Same goes for delivery person, but I’m betting on it being automated away faster than nursehood.

I crossed out cogwheel as a symbol for the proletariat as I realize that I consider a subsector of this (engineers) to be one part of the ruling class (the other being scholars) within socialism and thus not the proletariat.

“USA bad” well extends beyond Lemmy and I don’t think Lemmy is “USA bad” enough.

No, what is meant is that “as long is the AI bubble it will get worse, then it gets better”.
And to that I say “It won’t get any better after the bubble pops”.

There’s simply no incentive in the US from the left side to change anything that I think needs to change and instead has it’s priorities on things that I don’t think will help the underlying issues at all.

It gets worse until the bubble pops is the idea, which I personally don’t think it will for the US.

Two

Pay attention US citizens.

This is how you protest.

Clickbait.

And the most annoying type of clickbait is, I’m not sure what their official names are, but I’ll call them smudge dots.

It’s those little red dots Android/iOS puts on apps whose function is to get you to click on their apps so that you must use the apps the way they want you to, just so that you can remove the smudge off your phone which they’ll add back anyway.

It’s what prevented me from returning to these OSes at all cost.

I don’t know, but what I **can **tell you is that
I have noticed that there had been an awful lot of Iranian in European media in Europe flying pro-monarchy flags and by awful lot, I mean all protests in at least four Western countries outside of Iran, and that it’s presented by EU media as normal or semi-normal when it should not be.
We live in the 21st century, not the middle ages or renaissance times.
Then, there’s ‘the Iranian flag replacement on X’ by Elon Musk.
I guess he likes seeing the return of monarchies too.

True, but saying “Why on earth would I support monarchism?”
is a lot quicker than six paragraphs about the workings of the US empire.

I have a better reason:

The theojudicial government of Iran is fighting a pro-monarchy insurrection.

key U.S. ally

Gee, who could that be?

If everybody at ICE protests showed up with masks and a gun would there be more or less violence?

Yes

I like pictures with bright colors in them.
To me that’s a sign towards a bright present and future.

All those war, hunger and oppression photos just depress me.

China still dominates.

Fleur, Jasmijn, Sanne

Disagree.
Tributary states make the US empire extensions look more free than they are.
Serf states are a better description of what they are like.
Or perhaps sycophant states considering how eager they are serving the US.

What’s up with the high standard requirement?
Does the Chinese government need to be absolute perfection in order to be miles better than the US government?

Several countries have overlapping claims, but for some reason Westerners are only interested in China’s claims, because Western media has one specific narrative it wants to tell. Maybe Westerners should mind their own business and let countries on the other side of the world sort out their own disputes.

You’re forgetting to tell the commenter previously, these islands were previously occupied by France and Japan,
one colonizer kicked out of Asia and the other being the loser of world war II.