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[–] HerbGrower@slrpnk.net 13 points 12 hours ago

Only in the US. EU has teeth and occasionally uses them.

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[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

This is why the court MUST be packed. FDR threatened to do it 90 years ago, and the Dems better do it this time or else face another Trump again.

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[–] HasturInYellow@lemmy.world -1 points 12 hours ago (5 children)

It very much is not. It is in effect until the end of the United States. This will be long before most of us die.

The future will be getting very bad very fast and most nation states will collapse in a few decades.

So there's that I guess.

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[–] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago (4 children)

I think you are DRASTICALLY underestimating how durable fascist regimes are. Without external intervention they can continue for DECADES. Societies don't just collapse when people get fed up.

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[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

For real, Russia is calling with a word for OP.

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[–] Zink@programming.dev 1 point 8 hours ago

Maybe they meant the end of "the United States as we know it," which could be right. Or, arguably, already is.

But as a lifelong resident of the US, your point about how long regimes can last is extra scary. Two of the biggest facets of this country's identity have been that we have a lot of money/resources and that we have a lot of weapons. Plus we have our special brand of "fuck y'all; got mine" culture.

It seems like a nasty recipe for a fascist regime to isolate and turtle up and just grind along for half a century.

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[–] HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 0 points 7 hours ago (1 child)

I don't mean when people are fed up. I mean when millions are starving to death and the firestorms are ravaging our croplands. When the hurricanes give us a Katrina level disaster 6 times a year. When it becomes literally impossible for organized society to maintain itself.

This is happening sooner than you think.

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[–] isleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 point 5 hours ago

Modern nation states are a hell of a lot more resilient than what you give them credit for. Look at some of the hardships nations survived during WW2. States can survive even mass famines. How? Simple rule. The police and the army eat first.

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[–] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works -1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

If it's any comfort, there's a good chance the sunlight won't be reaching the suface of the earth for much of 2027, so we won't be alive for too much longer.