4d ago

So, is the USA screwed?

You know, DOGE, fascist president and corporations dictating what people can do, institutions being ruined, laws being ignored. Is there any way out of that or is it over? Is the USA done?

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The funny things is americans were like "We need guns to protect ourselves from tyranny." But of course, the ones with the guns are precisely the ones siding with tyrants.
- I mean, they wont do anything until the economy crashes and the leopards eat their face.
  The last time the economy crashed, the US got 40 years of progressvism.
  just waiting for the economy to crash 👀
  
  Power market's going to get real funky in over the next 6 months as utilities run out of runway on their renewable programs.
  
  They were still a democracy back then, now it's an oligarchy.
  
  They were still a democracy back then
  LMFAO, Black people couldn't even vote back then.
  
  I mean, you'll get to see the difference between a bad and discriminatory democracy and a pure dictatorship soon enough. If you think an economical crash will bring back progressivism, I wish you good luck but I think it's really naive. At this point with the gafam siding with pedo-president, they just wait for automation and AI to get a little further before getting rid of half of the country. And since it's the US, the other half of the country will take care of it for them. An economical crash would be the perfect setup for this. I'm not even american but for the first time of my life I'm considering getting a gun.
  
  you'll get to see the difference between a bad and discriminatory democracy and a pure dictatorship soon enough.
  The former elected to enfranchise the aforementioned blacks, the latter is deporting people on a hunch, for instance.
  
  That's an interesting point, because in terms of wealth inequality and unbridled exploitative capitalism stuff was pretty fucking dreadful back then too. But I don't think there was as much interest in the super rich taking control of the government, because the government didn't do that much and had never really been a problem for the wealthy (apart from that time they tried to abolish slavery...)
  I'm normally a "folks need to work together, big problems need big solutions" European lefty, but seeing the horror of what a powerful central government can do when it's in the hands of crazy dipshits... It certainly highlights the benefits of small governments and localised power. Maybe this will lead to growth of some forces of progress that aren't the federal government? The question is whether after the inevitable crash and burn, the next government will be willing to introduce the actual constraints, checks and balances to not let this happen again?
- 'Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary'
  -Karl Marx
- Those pricks had one fucking job and they absolutely blew it. Boot lickers all of them, it makes me sick.
- Lots of Americans have guns. Not just conservatives.
  
  Oh yeah then explain this gestures broadly at everything
  
  The chuds have more guns, thanks to many years of lefties demanding guns be removed from society and giving theirs up while the chuds just bought more (thanks for that one, Dad and friends)
  They're also usually a liiiitle more ready to use them, and the law is a looooot more ready to defend them than they are us
  
  Right wingers have organized militias for decades. These might be made up of stupid fat fucks, but they have trained how to organize, communicate, and do logistics.
  The number and quality of weapons is one factor. Wars are won by logistics, communication, and coordination. If you have an existing social political network, you can arm it pretty quickly. A group that knows how to set up a music festival in the middle of nowhere, can learn how to run a military camp.
- Being a shitty person is multidisciplinary, apparently.

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