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people be like "we don't hate republicans; we just hate their policies" and i'm like nah fuck that if every elected republican politician died i'd be celebrating.
I mean that still kinda counts, like i haye amazon and its leadership but i dont hate amazon employees/labor
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10 years? I'm pretty sure 10 months is 50/50 odds at this point...
I have insight to a company that does automotive loans, and the number of people getting offers for 30% APR 84 month 0-down loans (and accepting them) is way too fucking high.
People can't really afford cars. The US government considers domestic car production so important, that we are practically banned from buying "better" cheaper cars made in China. The auto manufacturers know this and are absolutely chowing down in the captive market. The working class is going to lose reliable transportation, at the same time companies (and the government) are pushing to end Work-from-home options, and there is basically 0 public transportation in the US.
So a lot of people aren't going to be able to afford the systemically artificially inflated cars to get to their arbitrarily in-office jobs and they can't reasonably take the systemically hobbled/non-existent bus or train.
Oh, did I mention that we've pissed off and mistreated and deported all of the migrant labor that made fresh food widely available and cheap in the US? Oh, and we also emptied critical agricultural water reserves in a smooth-brain attempt to fight a fire 200 miles away. Don't forget, global shipping and fuel prices are fucked because of a war we decided to start to distract from the fact that the president is practically in the Epstein files more than Epstein himself? So come summer, we're going to have no food because we have no water and no labor, and importing food is going to be even more expensive? And that's before the capricious 100%+ tarrifs the president is slapping on everything via a fucking tweet.
Come on... I don't think I could fuck up running a county this bad if I was actively trying.
You have to be joking, 84 month 30%??
They sell them on the amount someone would pay per payment, tell people for just $400 every other week they too can drive away in their ~~dream~~ functional car/truck.
Its the same idea of the 15 easy payments of $19.99 shit from long ago. Issue is people need a way to work so they justify the cost the same as rent and food (that are also squeezing people).
And just like the subprime crisis in 2007 all it takes is one life event and it all goes off the rails.
Not joking.
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Years? Try months. Second year of his first term was when the economy first stumbled.
It's weird that Republicans aren't more fearful given that farmers got crushed last year, and fertilizer prices are skyrocketing this year. Both due to the pedophile.
As a farmer who warned my friends and neighbors about this fact during and after the election, the déjà vu of all of this is absolutely not worth the wait. We've literally been here before. And it was bad bad.
I've never wanted to say "I fucking told you so"
I still don't.
But here we are. And they still somehow have no idea. Its fucking wild.
The worst part is knowing and being powerless despite it all. The most frustrating ones are the people that see the signs and are preparing. Hell they will probably survive it too. Lick their wounds and trudge on again. But they never once hit the point where they realize their actions are the reason this is happening.
I'm hitting the point where I don't dread the collapse anymore. In the most nhiallistic of senses, Im starting welcome it. And I'm so damn disappointed that it's gotten to this point.
MIT stats says it’s less than 10 years. Expects world wide full breakdowns by 2030 due to climate change. You thought the holocaust was bad.
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Still votes for trump…
I’m still 90% sure the fucker cheated - hell he even admitted as much right after he ran
Of course he did.
The evidence of Musk knowing the results way before the actual people in charge did clearly is foul play. They even found Musk manipulating votes and the South African immigrant is STILL not behind bars.
They're dismantling voting systems. Not just the machines, but the actual "systems". The people counting, how its counted, what's valid or not, where you can vote, when you can vote, who can vote.
They're sowing doubt at a rapid pace. Every election that they lose is fraud. Every election that they win is not.
They threatened everybody who was honest. They threatened the counters. They threatened judges. They did Jan 6 and killed two cops and harmed many others.
Let's not beat around the bush. Trump cheated. Period.
The entire Republican Party cheated with gerrymandered districts, suppressing voter turnout, voting barriers, etc.
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If he didn’t actually cheat he absolutely openly tried. Fake electors, calling State governors looking for “a few more votes,” the insurrection at the Capitol, etc.
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I mean, it keeps happening.
And we have to keep watching Boomers live their best lives while knowing we won't have what they have.
So yeah, the pessimism is warranted.
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Don't we always fear this and rightfully so because every 10 years we have an economic meltdown now?
I dont fear. I welcome. And really its my main financial benefit.
As do many who come from nothing or have nothing.
I'm thankful as a Canadian I came from meagre beginnings and my dad was a post-war baby in bombed our London. I have first hand experience in knowing what nothing is.
Let it burn.
That is way too optimistic
My 401k has lost 7% since the war. Trump has ruined all of our savings and investments. I also have to cancel all my trips cause gas is too expensive.
Have the day 70million wankees voted for.
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Republicans have no idea how the system works (worked). Of course they don't realize what we're doing will cause collapse.
Fear is a strong word for it though. I feared it for the last 6 or 7 years. Now I know it's the only way. The only way out is through it. If any amount of suffering enables us to quit bombing small children, then bring it.
Am I worried about me and my children surviving? Yes, but I'm worried the rich will eat us either way. I hope we do it smart, and organize, and move en masse while the oligarchs are weakened.
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10 years is optimistic
Financial anxiety ran much higher among Democrats, 53% of whom feared an economic breakdown, compared with just 28% of Republicans.
That's because a hard requirement to be a Republican in 2026 is to maintain a complete disregard for obvious facts and an utter disdain for realities that do not match a fantasy of their own greatness.
Next 10 years?
Motherfucker, it is currently ongoing.
Fucking goddamn, Americans are propogandized as fuck.
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There have been total economic collapses every 10 years or so for my entire life.
No, there haven't. If you think the dot-com bust or the great recession were bad, you ain't seen nothin' yet!
Well then they should stop calling them “once in a lifetime” and just consider them part of capitalism
10 years lol?? 10 more WEEKS of 'iran war' and we are all fucked!!!
Must be infuriating to do a survey on the American public. No matter what you are trying to find out around 50-60% are just going to drool on your survey and maybe draw a phallic symbol with a giant crayon.
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Today's empires are tomorrow's ashes. This too shall pass. A better world is possible.
Today’s empires are tomorrow’s ashes.
The US goes through recessions roughly every ten years, thanks to credit expansion and contraction. If anything, the next recession has been postponed far longer than expected.
The idea that we're going to be "ashes" in another ten years... the fucking doomer juice has blasted basic American history out of everyone's brains. Go back and live through the Great Recession, then talk to me about End Of Empire. Live through 9/11. Countries don't just stop existing because of a stock market sell-off, ffs.
Upvoted and agreed. But I think the US financial collapse has more to do with:
∙ Short-term incentives — businesses chasing next quarter while ignoring the long game. CEO tenure averages around 7 years, but comp structures reward short-term predictability over long-term health. Make the number go up, cash out, someone else’s problem.
∙ Crushing debt — not “insolvency” in the household sense, since the US prints its own currency, but debt-to-GDP at ~120% and interest payments consuming an increasing share of federal revenue creates real risks: inflation, dollar credibility erosion, and crowding out actual investment.
∙ No savings cushion — ~57% of Americans can’t cover a $1,000 emergency. That’s not a recession risk, that’s a detonator.
Empires don’t fall suddenly — they transform. The Roman Empire never really “ended”; the eastern half ran unbroken from Constantinople for nearly a thousand years after Rome’s western collapse. The threat isn’t a single dramatic crash. It’s a long, slow institutional rot that’s already underway.m
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Hopefully sooner.
I don't think you know what you're hoping for.
Does the prospect of societal breakdown, warlordism, loose nukes, and mass starvation really sound nice to you?
Well, if it's inevitable then yeah probably better to get it over with asap, like yeah ideally trump gets a heart attack and we prosecute all the child rapists in Washington and restore the global order and resume the march of progress in solidarity. But idk i think trump dies and they just keep going with this reactionary bs until we get WW3 and US has to surrender to the allies.
Better for that to happen via economic crisis now than full blown military ww3 crisis in a couple years.
Don’t care as long as the US falls apart like the USSR did in 1991. It doesn’t deserve to exist in its present form.
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In 2015, I used to say "A vote for trump is a vote for total system collapse."
Glad to see I was right.
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Definitely when the AI bubble pops there will be a financial collapse.
It's propping up basically our entire economy.
That would be just a normal recession. Between fucking with the Fed and basically doing everything possible foreign-policy-wise to destroy the dollar as the world's reserve currency, Trump's policies are capable of being way more disastrous than that. Think Weimar Republic-style, "wheelbarrow of cash to buy a loaf of bread" hyperinflation.
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At least trans people can't use a public john, and dangerous books are being kept out of libraries. That's the important thing. /s
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