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I often wondered how nazi germany happened given the democracy and find myself caught up in the process despite my best efforts and the efforts of many people I know.
The only efforts that matter going forward is for people now to give up their own comfort to secure the future for others. Either we trust each other with our lives or we forfeit our futures to authoritarian rule. I maybe only have another 30-40 years left. 20 years of "healthy" living. Its not me who's losing out big.
Id happily donate those years to a cause that was real and not just talk. If my only choice is to lead it myself, fine, but someone needs to start following.
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Things are going to get real fucky.
Those in power will be unable to trust each other and their employees even less. We may end up living where we work.
Diseases will be widespread, and no care will be offered to anyone but the privileged.
Famine, likely entirely manufactured, will cause massive amounts of starvation.
Modern conveniences will be slowly lost. Cars will be falling apart because no one can afford mechanics, and the lack of vehicle regulations leads to excessive accidents.
Planes will break up midaire. Widespread blackouts when shit goes sideways. Forget about medicine.
Waterways will be polluted beyond what can be boiled. Breathing in big cities will be hazardous. They will say "efficiency" but not one instance of efficiency will be observable.
Kids showing academic excellence will be abducted and sent to special indoctrination schools so that they can only benefit the regime.
Women will have rights removed. All men will have to do a two year duty in war. Church attendance will be reported to the government.
I have more ideas but I'll stop there
damn homie are you the heritage foundation
I mean I could be. 13 year old me thought of most of this stuff during his hormonal days
Strikes me that you've forgotten about the rest of the world.
The rest of the world isn't coming to help as long as we only hurt those within our borders. No one stood up to the Nazis until they started moving on other countries, even though they were already known to be committing atrocities. The rest of the world is just going to cut us off and let us burn, most of the world hates the U.S. and only plays nice for economic and military reasons.
That's true, but some of your dystopian ideas require the entire planet to fall into collapse and ruin. Eventually the odds are pretty good that the rest of the world (assuming we're in decent shape ourselves) will start to provide humanitarian aide to the US.
And stating that "most of the world hates the U.S." is definitely a sign that you don't quite understand how we feel about the US.
I guess I've just given up and assume everyone would just cut us off. I've really only seen negativity twords the US, so that colors my view. There's also my buddy from Japan who advised me to say I was Canadian when traveling internationally due to the negativity he's seen directed at the US when he's traveling Asia and Europe.
I guess I’ve just given up and assume everyone would just cut us off. I’ve really only seen negativity twords the US, so that colors my view. There’s also my buddy from Japan who advised me to say I was Canadian when traveling internationally due to the negativity he’s seen directed at the US when he’s traveling Asia and Europe.
Speaking as a Canadian, your friend from Japan can fuck right off.
Even the good people from the US (and there absolutely are some - some of my dearest friends are from SoCal) are not Canadian, and either (a) can't pull it off, or (b) skew the rest of the world's view of Canadians.
So please don't.
Honestly he's hard to read and he may have been joking, or not, I never bothered to find out since I really had no intention of doing it anyway. I work in international freight and deal with Canadian bound freight exclusively, some of the nicest customers I've dealt with were Canadian. CBSA.... they deal with bastards all day so they get a pass.
Honestly I own the fact that I'm American and then try to show we're not all backwards assholes. I figure I'm stuck here for the foreseeable future so I might as well try to do something to let the world know we're not all nazis.
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Death, mostly death.
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable.
A big ol pile of shit.
Yeah, Lemmy, what does the future look like?
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"We" are not good with it. But if you're American you might be, yeah.
The door is shutting. Might want to stick your foot in the gap before they lock it behind them.
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