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.
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some form of socialism!!!! well after we break out the guillotines
What's that from?
Love death and robots
Can't fuckin wait for the next season next month. Apparently one of them will be a prequel to how humanity killed itself and
Tap for spoiler
how cats rule the earth.
First I'm hearing about a new season, thanks for sharing!
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Those who do not learn to love one another will die.
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.
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.
We've hsd a long time to fix things, but we chose to be "civil" instead.
The Neoliberals obsessed with civility are working for the same people the Republicans do.
Only cuz they rigged the game against us
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
An Weird Al parody called "America, Fuck No!"
There is nothing on-the-nose enough that it won't be lost on at least 40% of us.
I vote "End of the Empire I-III" by Arcade Fire.
It'll more likely be a Kid Rock or Ted Nugent concert. Or simply five hours of topless Putin riding on a horse.
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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.
you mean "the american dream" lol
What comes next is Trump will go nuts and start walking around naked and MAGAts will celebrate by doing the same.
A 21st century retelling of "The emperors new clothes", where the emperor is also an influencer and sends people who warns about his nakedness to a dungeon in another kingdom.
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.
They are kinda doing a version of shock therapy on themselves though. (On their own dick.)
Hey buddy we shock our own dicks here and we like it thay wa-- OW
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
jumping up and down on their own dicks
Bravo sir.
What happened to the super rich people from USSR when it collapsed?
There weren't really many super rich people in the USSR. There were people with a lot of influence and power, who had nicer houses, better food, clothes, etc. but very few had a tons of money stashed away. You have to remember that Stalin and many of his followers viewed capitalism as the root of all evil and would imprison or kill rich people.
And many of those influential people used that power after the fall to become super rich by snapping up former state assets. Which is seemingly part of their current goal in the US: Isolate the country and destroy government assets to privatize them. Literally trying to recreate the situation that created the 90s Russian oligarchs.
Ah fuck. It's gonna be religious cults that do all that. The LDS and Scientologists already have lots of properties and oceans of assets to leverage for it, as well as the only sense of community most Americans ever experience.
Highly influential people who where loyal to Gorbachev: Purged and often imprisoned after the coup attempt.
Highly influential people who were loyal to Yeltsin: Oligarchs.
They literally bought the country from everybody else for scraps.
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Ever read Walkaway by Cory Doctorow? I hope it's like that.
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
His books are all released under a creative commons license and you can find them for free at his website, https://craphound.com/
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