• @MissJinx@lemmy.world
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    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.

    • @PanArab@lemm.ee
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      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.

  • @chuck@lemmy.ca
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    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

  • Maeve
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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.

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

    • @einlander@lemmy.world
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      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.

  • @yesman@lemmy.world
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    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
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      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

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

    • Raltoid
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      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.

      • @anachronist@midwest.social
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        142 months ago

        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.

      • @PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        12 months ago

        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.

  • Laser
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    122 months ago

    Who gives a fuck. Let them sink

      • Laser
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        262 months ago

        We’ll build a wall and make you guys pay for it!

        • @kreskin@lemmy.world
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          I see you, canadian instance lemmy user. Well we’ll sneak into your maple syrups factories and pour high fructose corn syrup into the syrup vats, so only Americans can tolerate the taste.

      • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝
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        112 months ago

        Not technically. If Trump succeeds in turning the US into Russia, most countries would be fine, especially if they or their close allies were nuclear armed.

        US citizens would become effectively slaves though.

          • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝
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            22 months ago

            Well the difference is that all the people who are not wage slaves right now would be, and the current wage slaves would basically be relegated to serfdom.

    • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝
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      232 months ago

      You’d have the mother of all refugee crises on the border. I feel the sentiment though.

      • @ijedi1234@sh.itjust.works
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        52 months ago

        You assume that Americans are capable of reaching the border in the first place. No doubt they’ll starve to death while cursing their enemy political party first.

        • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝
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          22 months ago

          Come to think of it, what happens if supply lines break down and fuel stops being delivered? I could imagine the mother of all famines, as food won’t make it into the (food) desert and people can’t come out.

          • @Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub
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            32 months ago

            You know what happens. Absolute fucking chaos followed by militias and what’s left of the US government tearing up the US like puzzle pieces. Millions will die if they don’t commit suicide first. Keep as much food as you like. Store as many guns as you can get. It won’t matter. It will become the supplies of the person who steals it from you.

    • Rozaŭtuno
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      It’s regular people like you that will get most of the hit. Rich fucks will be fine.

  • @PanArab@lemm.ee
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    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.

    • @Quadhammer@lemmy.world
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      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

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      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

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        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
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          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.