Anonymous asked:

Are Brexit and Trump the first signs that the Dire Problem is coming to a head? What political upheavals will we see when Google perfects the self-driving car and the TruckApocalypse comes?

slatestarscratchpad answered:

If the Dire Problem is supposed to be job automation, most of the best studies I’ve seen suggest that job automation isn’t having real effects right now (yes, everyone is confused about this, but the studies are pretty unanimous). I don’t know whether that will continue past the Truckpocalypse (<– correct form, your portmanteau is way too unwieldy).

My guess is Trump and Brexit have more to do with income inequality caused by other stuff, increased class differences coming from the income inequality, and various social stuff coming out of those class differences.

[slatestarscratchpad]

1109514775 writes:

Nah, I think anon has it. Try rapping it. You don’t want that “ck” right against the “p”, the “a” in between makes it flow. “truck-uh-pock-uh-lips” is delicious.

But if the Truckpocalypse is related to the Trumpocalypse, we want parallel -ocalypse structures to make them more easily comparable.

“The Trumpocalypse caused the Truckpocalypse” sounds good,

“The Trumpocalypse caused the TruckApocalypse” is just ridiculous.

[discoursedrome]

“Truckapocalypse” sounds better absent context but the meter and consonance mean that I can’t stop thinking of “Snuffleupagus” and “Papadopoulos” when I hear it.

[mitigatedchaos]

You fuckers have it completely wrong.

“Truckpocalypse” and “Truck Apocalypse” are two DIFFERENT supervillains.  You can’t go mixing them up like this. There was a court case about it and everything - it’s fucking trademarked.  You could get sued.