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   @eemmaa @arcana I just don't think it's accurate to call any city in the US 'cyberpunk' honestly. it's true that the material conditions in US cities fit a lot of the themes of cyberpunk media but the US kind of has its own problems that don't have anything to do with technocapital acceleration creating semi-autonomous super metropolises, which is kind of an important part of what makes something definitively cyberpunk and not just dystopian where the state has started to become irrelevant and there's a massive divide between the rich and poor that is being driven by big tech. like, cyberpunk settings tend to resemble something like neocameralism/neoreaction and the US is just a failing state with a lot of systemic infrastructure rot because in the 20th century a bunch of assholes had the brilliant idea to let mediocre lobbyist failsons run rampant destroying the whole fabric of how our newest cities were built or developed. so instead of having like hyper-dense borderline lawless cities you just have overdosing on fent or sitting in traffic for five hours and working in a gig economy and sharing a suburban home with a dozen other precarious gig economy and retail workers.
   
   the US is really its own sort of unique dystopia that should be called burgerpunk
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     ??? 妛彁 :xf_nyxsigil: :xf_nyxdisapproving: (nyx@social.xenofem.me)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Aug-2024 03:22:50 JST ??? 妛彁 :xf_nyxsigil: :xf_nyxdisapproving:

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     @eemmaa @arcana you're describing like every major US city lol
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     eemmaa (eemmaa@soc0.outrnat.nl)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Aug-2024 03:22:50 JST eemmaa

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     @nyx@social.xenofem.me @arcana@fedi.layer02.net la it’s the biggest magnification of that in the us, Dallas is working on getting there too.

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     eemmaa (eemmaa@soc0.outrnat.nl)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Aug-2024 03:22:52 JST eemmaa

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     @nyx@social.xenofem.me @arcana@fedi.layer02.net it has homeless people living all over the street and rich people living in luxury, often in tech sector. The stark contrast, of high tech hub, full of violence and homelessness. The corpos are well paid in every cyberpunk dystopia. You are wrong.

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     @eemmaa @arcana LA is like the exact opposite of cyberpunk
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     eemmaa (eemmaa@soc0.outrnat.nl)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Aug-2024 03:22:54 JST eemmaa

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     @arcana@fedi.layer02.net probably LA