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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

We've hsd a long time to fix things, but we chose to be "civil" instead.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

The Neoliberals obsessed with civility are working for the same people the Republicans do.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 hours ago (5 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

There is nothing on-the-nose enough that it won't be lost on at least 40% of us.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago

I vote "End of the Empire I-III" by Arcade Fire.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Trump is a huge fan of Cats, so maybe they'll play that?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

I could see him doing that, but I think it would go more like this... https://youtu.be/saY10AWXLIY?start=34

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago

It'll more likely be a Kid Rock or Ted Nugent concert. Or simply five hours of topless Putin riding on a horse.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago

According to Ted Turner, it's "Nearer, My God, to Thee".

[–] [email protected] 86 points 19 hours ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

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 spoilerhow cats rule the earth.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 hours ago

First I'm hearing about a new season, thanks for sharing!

[–] [email protected] 23 points 18 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 31 points 17 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

Recession, have you all not been paying attention?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

What happened to the super rich people from USSR when it collapsed?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 14 hours ago

They literally bought the country from everybody else for scraps.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Probably took extended vacations to Montenegro or similar.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

Permanent vacations 6ft under.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

What comes next is Trump will go nuts and start walking around naked and MAGAts will celebrate by doing the same.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 15 hours ago

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.