• DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            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.

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              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.

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                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

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      Those who do not learn to love one another will die.

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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.

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      We’ve hsd a long time to fix things, but we chose to be “civil” instead.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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

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

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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.

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        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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        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.

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

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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.

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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.

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        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.

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

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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.

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        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.

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        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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          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.

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            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.

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          If you think that makes you immune to Trump, well, all I can say is godspeed.