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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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[Watchmen] It's been about 30 years. What's the Watchmen universe like now?

Your choice between the comic or movie version.
gpt
Rorschach's journal was published eventually but dismissed as a fake because if its far from reputable initial discovery by what was labeled a neo nazi newspaper. Almost nobody outside the alt-right even remembers it exists.

No more aliens showed up, and given time the crisis mentality wore off. Great leaps forward in technology were made during the frantic research into how it had appeared in the first place though, and it lasted long enough that the Soviet Union dissolved on its own, staving off doomsday inevitably.

A third generation of vigilantes emerged despite the laws, powered by the super science gizmos that came out of the crisis period. They were far less focused on traditional criminals and more on moral crimes (a gay bashing here, attacking a middle manager at Wal-Mart there) Increasingly they became involved in vigilantism against political movements, first targeting extremists like communists and neo nazis, but increasingly any political movement that wasn't a straight up establishment politics (in the rare occasion it happens the police manage to be vastly more effective at catching them for some reason). Nothing ever actually gets done about it, because people hold up the ones attacking their side at the great evil facing society while refusing to talk about or acknowledge that vigilantes supporting them are also a problem.