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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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[–] EndRedStateSubsidies@leminal.space 27 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Yes.

In the short term not much will change and no one will react. By the time they want to react, they'll play into a fascist crackdown.

Look into the Business Plot. This is basically the result of a century of planning between business interests and religious fanatics with too much money.

As long as capitalism is propagandized as a good thing, civilization will continue to face this issue of the few exploiting the many.

Do you believe every human deserves the same rights and dignities? It's not possible to make a cell phone without relying on slave labor in the supply chains.

Profit is unpaid labor. As long as we normalize giving at the profits to those that already have everything, civilisations will continue to implode until one makes a mistake of such hubris everyone dies. Look at PFAS. One day we will unleash something we can't contain and we'll be dead before we can detect it or treat it.

Our species simply will not survive because we're too eager to shit where we sleep just so we don't have to walk all the way to the bathroom.

[–] sunflowercowboy@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago

It's to the point i believe myself the second coming. Rapture always perplexed me.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago

"screwed" seems a little mild to describe it

[–] Aoife@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Nah it's gonna get looted and pillaged and generally go to shit but will be saved by the aheer economic power of being one of the few places left on earth with enough farmland to feed billions when the other breadbaskets start getting decimated by ecological collapse

Enough farmland? I suggest reading up on the Ogallala Aquifer. Also, where the best climate zones for agriculture will be 50 years from now.

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[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 days ago

More and more every day...

[–] BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Screwed, and unfortunately screwing around too

[–] HighFructoseLowStand@lemm.ee 8 points 3 days ago

Unless there's a coup when the Supreme Court finds against Trump and he ignores them and Republicans keep Congress from holding him accountable the only way the Court will let them.

[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 24 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Centuries to build

Weeks to destroy.

Good luck.

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[–] SabinStargem@lemmings.world 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I would say so. The only question is whether the good guys win a civil war. My money is on 'yes', since Yarvin's Cabal is hellbent on exiling all of the competent people from their society, along with being jackasses who have alienated many peoples. It will be a bloody struggle, but I think that Dogey America will ultimately receive the Old Yeller treatment. I only hope that every member of Yarvin's Cabal are executed - Elon, Thiel, ect.

Let's not make the mistakes of the 1st Civil War, 1st Business Plot, and 2nd World War, where many high ranking members were permitted to escape justice.

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[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 18 points 4 days ago
[–] takeiteasypolicy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (8 children)

I wont give a knee jerk response to it. a country the size, economy, and history of USA doesn't get done for by one President. While Muskrump will cause plenty of institutional damage and suffering on American and global populace, USA will come out stronger and better nation at the end of this (whenever this ends). Case in point, Germany before WWII and Germany after WWII

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