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The US is Collapsing Like the USSR – So What Comes Next
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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!
iirc it was kinda hinted that maybe all the poor people got deported or something leaving the rich to die? I vaguely recall them mentioning something about ships in the last one where they found the rich people condos.
I.... think it's opposite
Global warming caused the world to end and the rich fled in ships thinking they could go elsewhere. The poor and everyone else was left behind to fend for themselves ....unclear if the rich actually escaped
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.
We've hsd a long time to fix things, but we chose to be "civil" instead.
Only cuz they rigged the game against us
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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
There is nothing on-the-nose enough that it won't be lost on at least 40% of us.
It'll more likely be a Kid Rock or Ted Nugent concert. Or simply five hours of topless Putin riding on a horse.
I vote "End of the Empire I-III" by Arcade Fire.
An Weird Al parody called "America, Fuck No!"
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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.
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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.
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.
jumping up and down on their own dicks
Bravo sir.
They are kinda doing a version of shock therapy on themselves though. (On their own dick.)
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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.
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.
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They literally bought the country from everybody else for scraps.
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.
Who gives a fuck. Let them sink
because like it or not our boat is your boat too
We'll build a wall and make you guys pay for it!
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.
Touché
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.
You'd have the mother of all refugee crises on the border. I feel the sentiment though.
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.
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It's regular people like you that will get most of the hit. Rich fucks will be fine.
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some form of socialism!!!! well after we break out the guillotines
Recession, have you all not been paying attention?
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