• @Thebeardedsinglemalt
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    1142 months ago
    • Half the population claims it’s all a hoax and lets zombies bite them because anything else is a violation of their freedoms

    • Large swaths of gun owners take to the streets, and half of them die quickly because they put more money into the number of guns they had or making them tacticool instead of putting rounds through them or sighting them in.

    • It gets overly politicized.

    • The literal collapse of civilization, yet some corners of the government and billionaires are still trying to milk out the last drop of money

    • @Breadhax0r
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      682 months ago

      Don’t look up was basically this but a meteor instead of zombies. It was honestly kind of a depressing movie lol

      • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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        482 months ago

        What’s crazy is that they made the movie before the pandemic, but it was almost a parody of the trump administration and the response to covid.

        • kronisk
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          202 months ago

          Well, It also works as a nice allegory for climate catastrophe.

    • @Etterra
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      202 months ago

      Shaun of the Dead kind of did it.

    • @captainlezbian
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      182 months ago

      Gun owners patrol the streets shooting at the cdc

    • @[email protected]
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      112 months ago

      I actually think it would be good uniting force for a divided country:

      • The “it’s a hoax” portion of the population will simply become zombies
      • The “we love guns” portion of the population can now take their life frustrations out on the zombies
      • The “we need to fix this world” portion of the population will learn to fight too and provide vital aid and supplies to the (likely growing) “we love guns” group
      • The “we need run away from this madness” portion of the population will just hunker down and play on their smartphones

      Either way, everyone kind of wins

      • @Apepollo11
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        72 months ago

        I think you’re a little off on the “we need to fix this world” guys.

        Although zombie films / TV series lean heavily into the action side of things, that’s just because it’s more entertaining than watching people building things, developing tech, doing scientific research.

        Remember with COVID 19? Huge numbers of people immediately set out to find a cure, inventing and deploying ways to prevent and monitor the spread, creating pop-in treatment centres, etc.

    • @[email protected]
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      2 months ago

      The game series Dead Rising does the last bullet point with Zombrex, the 24 hour zombie prevention drug, which they need zombie outbreaks to make the drug so the pharmaceutical company starts causing them.