40 Pictures Showing America Sliding Into Full On Dystopian Nightmare In 2025
A lot of people talk about the fall of society every generation, but this time we might actually be seeing it.
2025 has brought us a full on authoritarian government trying to get its hooks in, people being snatched off the streets with zero due process, and AI running rampant at the cost of jobs and the environment.
Well, life must go on. This post of the biggest dystopian fails of 2025 is a hard pill to swallow, but the good news is there are still many of us willing to fight for a world worth living in.
Here’s to 2026 being a better year for everyone, and if not, be the radioactive zombie roaming the wasteland you want to see in the world…or something.
1. “Software update failure? Better walk son”
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3. Whoever made this billboard can shove it.
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5. This photograph was taken two days ago at the FBI Academy in Quantico and submitted to the NYT under the condition of anonymity.
6. The credit score is audacity.
7. Glad critical medical care is being taken care of by private companies.
8. Sums it up pithily.
9. Wow.
10. Shame that nobody could erase this with the stroke of a pen, eh?
11. America is a glorified company town.
12. This year, give your special someone the gift of accessing the American healthcare system
13. Aww you’ve been sexually harassed? Well Walmart is the REAL victim here.
14. How long until we match this level of casual cruelty and turn against these guys?
15. Capitalism reinventing itself — or so they say…
16. Taco Bell instructing its employees what they can and cannot say on the workers’ own social media.
17. A/C for robots but not for humans.
18. Elderly Palestinian couple looking at the house they once lived in, now occupied by a couple from Brooklyn.
19. This McDonalds “play place”.
20. Big banks using heavily edited John Stuart Mill Quotes in their advertising.
21. How is this legal?
22. This billboard like 100 ft off my college campus.
23. How is underpaid child labor legal?
24. No subtlety anymore.
25. This was what Kaiser Permanente gave to their nurses to recognize them during nurses week.
26. When even the good guys see immigrants as an exploitable slave class.
27. Local news spots tourists snapping selfies at “Alligator Alcatraz”
28. How are people even existing?
29. Reality is often disappointing.
30. Next!
31. Problem solved!
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33. Maybe
34. Walmart is selling “Support Local” shirts.
35. Seen in Brooklyn. This isn’t clever, Doordash. Just sad.
36. We don’t really care about leukemia, but if you give us a good review…
37. Ah yeah heaven.
38. I hate it here…
39. Do not enjoy meals during your 13 h shift.
40. The military gets hundreds of billions of dollars a year, yet soldiers have to beg civilians for the right to call their families.
