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Dystopia, a futuristic society ruled by surveillance, fear, and zero personal freedom, is a popular sci-fi concept. But what if it’s not just a concept anymore? What if we’re already heading in that direction, or worse, already there?

The r/dystopia subreddit certainly makes it feel that way. We’ve rounded up some of the most unsettling posts from it below. Scroll down to see them, just maybe not on a day you were hoping to stay optimistic.

#1

#facts

Feminist post about citizenship proof and racial injustice

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JoMeBee
Community Member
4 months ago

Amen! Huzzah! Can confirm! Insert whichever affirmation means the most to you!

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    #2

    AI

    Announcement of Denmark's revolutionary law on AI deepfakes and personal rights

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    Iris C
    Community Member
    4 months ago

    I'm liking this way of thinking!!!

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    #3

    Billionaires Shouldn’t Exist

    Tweet discussing billionaire wealth cap and wealth transfer issues

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    Nikki Sevven
    Community Member
    4 months ago

    Billionaires are hoarders. Economies work when money moves around, and don't work when money is hoarded and not spent. We should treat billionaires the same way as people who hoard old newspapers, because they're just as mentally ill and they're damaging society.

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    #4

    No More Handouts!

    Bernie Sanders tweet on wealth inequality and unemployment during a pandemic

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    Nikki Sevven
    Community Member
    4 months ago

    One of my most prized possessions is a Bernie campaign poster done in cooperation with Public Enemy. It's a rendering of Bernie holding up a fist with the caption 'fight the power'.

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    #5

    Reality!

    Protest sign about bad guys with guns and congressmen with spines

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    Analyn Lahr
    Community Member
    Premium
    4 months ago

    There aren't enough of those, sadly.

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    #6

    The West Has Forgotten So Much

    Black and white photo with quote about lying by Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

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    A. Br.
    Community Member
    4 months ago

    Still relevant In today's tRump America.

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    #7

    The Real "Problem" The Billionaires Want AI To Solve

    Tweet about AI solving the wage problem, dystopia perspective

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    Analyn Lahr
    Community Member
    Premium
    4 months ago

    As I've said it should be used to ASSIST SPARINGLY. Not used to replace. But if this replacing nonsense keeps up, we'll need some hackers to take it all down.

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    #8

    Funny Because It Hurts!

    Sign on car window from a teacher with four jobs asking for Tesla job

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    Bill The Splut
    Community Member
    4 months ago

    I have a neighbor who has a Tesla. Or *had* a Tesla. He left it out where everyone could see it and be "impressed" (not me!). After 18 months it disappeared. Maybe he sold it--unlikely, as by then Teslas weren't a thing people were buying--or he hid it in his garage.

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    #9

    They're Still Debating!

    Sculpture titled politicians discussing global warming showing figures submerged in water

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    JoMeBee
    Community Member
    4 months ago

    Well it took a dust storm reaching DC to get folks to seriously discuss the dust bowl, farming practices and native vegetation, so no real surprise here.

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    #10

    We Live In A Dystopia

    Cartoon showing US aiding Mexico while d**g cartels benefit

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    Amy Stout
    Community Member
    4 months ago

    "God gave us the Earth. We have dominion over the plants, the animals, the trees. God said, Earth is yours. Take it. R@pe it. It's yours" Ann Coulter

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    #11

    Israel-First Billionaires Are Targeting Massie In His 2026 Primary Election Bid For Voting To Release Epstein Files

    Tweet on Epstein file release and political ads, dystopia topic

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    Charlotte
    Community Member
    4 months ago

    If enough people push back, we can keep the king's court on edge. Eventually, they will turn on each other.

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    #12

    The Great Depression Part 2

    Comparison of Great Depression tent camps in 1930 and 2020

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    G A
    Community Member
    4 months ago

    The whole fvcking world is depressed and has been since about 2009.

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    #13

    Current Us Healthcare

    Tweet about a dystopian pizza subscription service with strict access and controls

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    Robert Millar
    Community Member
    4 months ago

    But 60% of requests will be rejected.

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    #14

    "I Hope I Make It"

    7-year-old Alabama girl selling lemonade to fund brain surgeries charity

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    Otorgar
    Community Member
    4 months ago

    "Greatest country", right?

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    #15

    This Is From The Gilded Ages, Does It Look Familiar?

    Political cartoon showing low wages and high rent oppression

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    martin734
    Community Member
    Premium
    4 months ago

    To be honest no. That is because i am lucky to be living in a country that has strong and well enforced employment laws that protect employees and has a minimum wage and welfare system that means that most peop!e in most parts of the country can actually afford to have a decent standard of living.

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    #16

    So Bad, It Hurts Just Reading About It

    Text highlighting banks earned 34 billion from overdraft fees in 2017 hurting poor people

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    Charlotte
    Community Member
    4 months ago

    David, maybe be disgusted that banks were bailed out in 2008, while people who lost their homes to predatory lenders were not.

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    #17

    Imagine If A Corporation Did This

    Tweet discussing consent for draft registration while renewing license in Iowa

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    Barong
    Community Member
    4 months ago

    Ok? You have to register for Selective Service (the draft). It’s been required continuously since 1980 and various times previously during times of war. Iowa Department of Transportation (DOT) like other state’s DOT or Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) offers a choice for convenience while licensing since they already will have your current information. Selective Service is required by law but you don’t need to register through the DMV / DOT. There are other ways, but you’ll have to fill out much the same info you gave the DOT / DMV when licensing.

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    #18

    Sadly, We Are Here

    Venn diagram showing dystopia crossover between The Matrix, Idiocracy, Terminator with you are here

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    Analyn Lahr
    Community Member
    Premium
    4 months ago

    Where is the reset button? Someone needs to press it.

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    #19

    Hold The Line

    Rep Nancy Mace tweet on moral clarity and justice for Epstein victims

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    Anne Parks
    Community Member
    4 months ago

    never gonna happen...

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    #20

    We’re Not Gonna Make It

    Headline about grandma streaming Minecraft to pay for grandson's cancer with meme about losing hope

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    G A
    Community Member
    4 months ago

    There are some evil fvcking petty barstewards full of nothing but spite out there.

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    #21

    They’re Not Even Hiding It Anymore… Seen In Sf

    Back of city bus with stop hiring humans advertisement on highway

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    Tiffeny Price
    Community Member
    4 months ago

    I hate this ad campaign.

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    #22

    My Corporation Is My Religion My CEO Is My God, I Don't Question I Consume!

    Conference slide on turning customers into fanatics and brands into religions

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    Angelina
    Community Member
    4 months ago

    🤮

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    #23

    What Would She Have Done Without Chat Gpt?

    Smoke rises over Dubai airport as private jet prices soar amid crisis

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    Barong
    Community Member
    4 months ago

    …and the 911 operator also did not tell her to leave the house?

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    #24

    A Boring Dystopia Dressed Up As A Heartwarming Story

    Principal helping students on TV news highlighting dystopia theme

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    #25

    Find Happiness In The Small Things

    Anime girl drinking hot coffee with dystopia caption about synthetic water and acid rain in 2041

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    Touhou Youyoumu
    Community Member
    4 months ago

    Love the art. David Paterson, just f**k off. Your a joke.

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    #26

    What If Ilhan Omar Said This?

    Tweet highlighting bigotry and political commentary in dystopian context

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    martin734
    Community Member
    Premium
    4 months ago

    To be fair, if you replaced Muslims with People, it still would not be a diifficult choice for me. I would put my dogs before any person.

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    #27

    Letter From 9 Y/O Child Imprisoned In American Camp (2026)

    Handwritten letter from a 9-year-old about missing home and friends in dystopian detention

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    Nova yt
    Community Member
    4 months ago

    While feeding him moldy food and he sleeps on the floor and gets abvsxd by predators in there.

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    #28

    So The White House Just Rolled Out Their App And Upon Closer Inspection It’s Literally Spyware

    Screenshot of White House app permissions including location and storage access

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    Analyn Lahr
    Community Member
    Premium
    4 months ago

    George Orwell is rolling in his grave.

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    #29

    You Are Now Here

    Venn diagram showing dystopian novels like Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave New World with You Are Here center

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    Fred L.
    Community Member
    4 months ago

    By comparison with most others Logan's Run would be nice.

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    #30

    You're Being Put On A List

    New York Times headline on Homeland Security and social media on dystopia

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    Analyn Lahr
    Community Member
    Premium
    4 months ago

    Isn't that against the constitution?

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    #31

    Afk Too Long. Get Back To Work

    Office with ceiling toy gun and message about work productivity in dystopia

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    G A
    Community Member
    4 months ago (edited)

    Love for the shareholders to see that in the brochure

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    #32

    Designer Babies

    Subway ad promoting selective baby choosing with best baby keyword

    Designer babies are now a thing. This is disgusting. They justify it with ways of stopping flaws such as cancer and diabetes but also about eye color hair adhd, etc. Flaws are what make us human. At what point of genetic and artificial selection do we stop becoming human. I'm never gonna have kids in the future if this is how the worlds' gonna end up as.

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    Bill The Splut
    Community Member
    4 months ago

    Forgotten movie: Gattaca. This is what it was about. And, of course, Huxley's Brave New World. Written in the 1930s. If Science can do it, sometimes Science will. Whether it's a good idea or not.

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    #33

    We Give More To The Cartels… Just Ask Don, Jr. And Kash P

    Reddit comment about gas leak and ChatGPT advising to call 911

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    BrunoVI
    Community Member
    4 months ago (edited)

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    The Biden administration have Al Qaeda and ISIS over $100 billion in US military equipment. The Obama administration tried to prove that the gun-show "loop hole" that permitted gun shows to sell guns without background checks was helping narco-terrorists obtain weapons. When gun show sellers refused to sell guns to narco-terrorists, the Obama administration gave combat weapons to those narco-terrorists, which were then used to m****r ATF and other federal LEOs. This is the Fast and Furious scandal (and yes, elements of it extended back to the Bush administration). The "defense" amounted to the claim that the administration had meant to keep track of the guns after the narco-terrorists bought them, but lost track of them.

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    #34

    Dystopian Headline #1,000 (Give Or Take A Million)

    Road closed sign with fire danger warning in smoky area

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    Otorgar
    Community Member
    4 months ago

    'Merica - where being against fascism is bad!

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    #35

    Forgot To Switch Accounts Again?

    Tweet expressing political opinion about Obama and Trump

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    Nikki Sevven
    Community Member
    4 months ago

    Pretty sure you're white and in the closet, my dude.

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    #36

    Sweet Pea. From Ghislane To Melania

    Screenshot of an email conversation about travel plans to New York City

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    Nova yt
    Community Member
    4 months ago

    Best friends w the most prolific pdf for over a decade and dozens of accusers, on tape bragging about what the accusers accuse him of and also on tape bragging about going back stage to see teenagers vndrxssxd and they still voted for him.

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    #37

    And Justice For All

    Photos of a man boarding a flight and a stepdad cooking for family in Texas

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    Nova yt
    Community Member
    4 months ago

    And they'll vote for him again and again and again. His own family doesn't like him, even rumored to be the least liked guy at the capital and they'll still vote for him.

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    #38

    White House Website Using AI Generated "Criminal Illegal Aliens" To "Prove" Undocumented Migrants Are Getting Medicaid

    Man labeled illegal alien with arrests caption, dystopia theme

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    Anne Parks
    Community Member
    4 months ago

    surprised? hardly

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    #39

    Bafta Being Bafta…

    Meme criticizing BAFTA broadcast rules mentioning dystopia

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    Shelley Dawson
    Community Member
    4 months ago

    Small, narrow minded people who use the unconscious, uncontrolled utterance of a sufferer of Tourettes as validation for terrorist organisations. Nice.

    #40

    Your Vote Dont Matter

    Meme of men laughing with text about building an AI data center

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    LancePoekinhos
    Community Member
    4 months ago

    uhhh

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    #41

    Youtube Ad Placement

    Explosion and smoke engulf high-rise buildings in Gaza dystopia scene

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    NJ P
    Community Member
    4 months ago

    I stood with Israel for the first couple of months post Hamas attack. But once it became obvious they were using their outrage to eliminate the Palestinian people and continue to do so, no longer. Free Palestine!

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    #42

    Private Jet Prices Soar As Wealthy Scramble To Leave Dubai

    Hand holds US-Israel flag pins symbolizing support for Israel

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    Charlotte
    Community Member
    4 months ago

    Oh well.

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    #43

    The Age Of Robotic Enforcement Is Upon Us

    Park patrol robot SPOT trial sign explaining autonomous safety monitoring in public parks

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    Gail Lott
    Community Member
    Premium
    4 months ago

    THAT THING WAS ON BLACK MIRROR!!!

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    #44

    Friendship Circle Over The Years

    Illustration of friendship circle shrinking over years with digital devices in 2025

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    Mel
    Community Member
    4 months ago

    Hard to skip around in the meadows and dance with unicorns if you end up d**d because of an i​diot who decides that their delusions matter more than other people's safety, Bruno. Just because you weren't personally affected or got "sniffles at worst", it doesn't mean other people were so lucky. I beg you to go find joy, comfort and love somewhere else.

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    #45

    Dystopia Starts Now

    Digital billboard showing curfew announcement at 8 PM with tweet comment

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    Roxy222uk
    Community Member
    4 months ago

    OMG, I had to remind myself that the temperature is in Farenheit!

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    #46

    Here's A First

    Texas National Guard authorized for federal official safety in dystopian society

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    Serigala
    Community Member
    4 months ago

    That's what they did in the Soviet union, dont deploy troups in their own state. Makes it easier for the government to get them to round up or shoot dissenters.

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    #47

    Epstein Purchased 6 55-Gallon Drums Of Sulfuric Acid Sent To His Island

    Image of Jeffrey Epstein with text about ordering multiple 55-gallon sulfuric acid drums in 2018

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    Norm Gilmore
    Community Member
    4 months ago

    Even though the man is a monster he's not accused of that. From yahoo!news- The acid is used in Reverse Osmosis desalination plants which they had on the island. The amount is consistent with that necessary for the plant to operate.

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    #48

    Technically The Truth~

    Micro-dosing dystopia tweet illustrating dystopia keyword

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    Khavrinen
    Community Member
    4 months ago

    Doesn't seem very "micro" to me...

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    #49

    It's Actually Horrifying

    Tweets discussing Epstein story and Israel, dystopia context

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    Jay Rankin
    Community Member
    4 months ago

    I've never seen so many downvotes as went to the responder of this post. I added myself, DP.

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