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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] MissJinx@lemmy.world 53 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

When you look down at others instead of helping lift other up nobodt cares when you implode. I'm VERY sad for the regular non crazy american, you guys are the real victims.

[–] Montagge@lemmy.zip 18 points 6 days ago (2 children)

We've hsd a long time to fix things, but we chose to be "civil" instead.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago

The Neoliberals obsessed with civility are working for the same people the Republicans do.

[–] Star@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 6 days ago

Only cuz they rigged the game against us

[–] PanArab@lemm.ee -1 points 5 days ago

No, the real victims are the children who were killed in a hospital or school bombing by the US. If the US is terminally weakened it may be less capable of bombing schools and hospitals halfway across the world.

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 27 points 6 days ago (3 children)

I couldn't get very far through this briar-patch of buzz-words. But the collapse of the Soviet Union was brought about by material economic conditions, not by jumping up and down on their own dicks the way America is handling it.

I suspect the apt model for America's future is the British Empire.

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago

material economic conditions, not by jumping up and down on their own dicks the way America is handling it.

Except the US is about to suffer those material economic conditions because they're jumping on their own dicks.

"Revenge" I believe is the correct word

[–] TheCriticalMember@aussie.zone 13 points 6 days ago

jumping up and down on their own dicks

Bravo sir.

[–] gabbath@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

They are kinda doing a version of shock therapy on themselves though. (On their own dick.)

[–] Quadhammer@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Hey buddy we shock our own dicks here and we like it thay wa-- OW

[–] PanArab@lemm.ee 8 points 5 days ago

I sure hope so and hope its takes Israel, and a number of Arab governments, down with it. As someone who used to believe in the myth I am bitter and disgusted by what the US really is and always has been.

[–] puffytacos@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 days ago

some form of socialism!!!! well after we break out the guillotines

[–] IvanOverdrive@lemm.ee 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Ever read Walkaway by Cory Doctorow? I hope it's like that.

[–] Quadhammer@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Set in our near-future, it is a story of walking away from "non-work", and surveillance and control by a brutal, immensely rich oligarchical elite; love and romance; a post-scarcity gift economy; revolution and eventual war; and a means of finally ending death

What an intersting premise. Hope that isnt spoiling too much I think ill have to find a copy through a nonzon source

[–] aphlamingphoenix@lemm.ee 0 points 5 days ago

His books are all released under a creative commons license and you can find them for free at his website, https://craphound.com/

[–] bonnashejve@europe.pub 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

What comes the next? In Europe will be 2 unions: Eastern European and EU (Western European).

[–] reksas@sopuli.xyz 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

wouldnt it make more sense if russia split into 2 instead? I think there might be something brewing there, especially if the war ends at some point and all those abused soldiers come back home

[–] frezik@midwest.social 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Split into a hundred pieces. It's long been a country with tons of internal divisions who hate whomever happens to be ruling in Moscow.

[–] reksas@sopuli.xyz 3 points 6 days ago

i just hope, if russia ends up splitting, that china doesnt gobble up the pieces. I still would rather have russia as neighbour than china, considering how china has been towards its neighbours.

[–] bonnashejve@europe.pub 1 points 6 days ago

I may be wrong, but this is what the prophecy of Revelation says. About the 10 horns and the beast, as well as Ezekiel's prophecy about the unification of the kingdoms of Judah and Israel under one king. It should be understood that the EU is a colonial country and a descendant of the Holy Roman Empire, and later the Habsburg Empire. Before the Byzantine conquest, Eastern Europe was one country (from the Danube to the Don and the Caspian Sea, and from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea). And now this unification is happening before our eyes. This is an incredible event.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

Recession, have you all not been paying attention?

[–] return2ozma@lemmy.world 123 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] chuck@lemmy.ca 45 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Oooh what ballet/music will be played nationally when the us collapses?

It was swan lake for the USSR right?

I'm kinda hoping it's green day's American Idiot but that may be a bit on the nose

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago

There is nothing on-the-nose enough that it won't be lost on at least 40% of us.

[–] blackstampede@sh.itjust.works 9 points 6 days ago

I vote "End of the Empire I-III" by Arcade Fire.

[–] PurpleTentacle@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

It'll more likely be a Kid Rock or Ted Nugent concert. Or simply five hours of topless Putin riding on a horse.

[–] Odo@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

According to Ted Turner, it's "Nearer, My God, to Thee".

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Trump is a huge fan of Cats, so maybe they'll play that?

[–] Test_Tickles@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

I could see him doing that, but I think it would go more like this... https://youtu.be/saY10AWXLIY?start=34

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 2 points 6 days ago

An Weird Al parody called "America, Fuck No!"

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 2 points 6 days ago

It will be something tone deaf yet in retrospect poetic. Maybe something like this?

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 43 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The over-reliance on "entrepreneurism" is what got us here, and the harping on it in this article irks me; other than that, it's a good read.

[–] MissJinx@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

you mean "the american dream" lol

[–] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 32 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

What comes next is Trump will go nuts and start walking around naked and MAGAts will celebrate by doing the same.

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