yo it's barbarism right now lol

You mean to tell me the settlers state built on slavery and genocide has chosen the path of barbarism?!?

i am lucky to "own" (rent from the bank for x years) property and a little house and even if i wanted to take people in the laws are set up so i could do at most 2 legally

in theory 10 RVs could easily park on my property and connect to utilities and we could make a mini commune since it's my property

but lol nope there are municipal codes and we would be raided, fined, a lien put on and all kicked out to face criminal homelessness. i looked into this. people still do it, but you better be deep in the woods.

(lol property rights in the U.S. there are none)

every avenue is being cut off. i fear going to the doctor because i fear bankrupcy, not the doctor. i feel being disabled more then being dead because i know it's a fate worse then death now. i fear old age because i just see it as a period of helpless suffering, easy prey to whatever predators come for us, not old age itself

everything is just under the surface waiting to bubble up and we are so fucking atomized and alienated.

I've said repeatedly that I expect mass graves in the US before this is all over.

I assume that sounds like hyperbole, but I'm 100% serious.

"going to be"

I got my hands up, they're arrestin' me
And they say that it's because I'm gay
Yeeaaah, barbarism in the U.S.A
Yeaaaah, barbarism in the U.S.A

i cant afford a gun so im sharpening sticks

Yea. Very worried as a trans person.

fucked off from abusing the global south

i think he just threatened brazil again over the rare earths and bolsonaro's arrest.

he seems to be escalating military deployments in latin america too.

it's been barbarism

As soon as Joe Biden ran for a second term the die was cast.

Not that there was much hope before that

I think the redistricting fight happening between red and blue states could escalate to breakup. We saw some of the cracks appear during COVID with the regional pandemic response networks, this is another step towards disintegration of the so-called union.

I mean it already is and has been for a long time. America is already a dictatorial fascist hell state if you're homeless, or in prison, or a poor black single mother, or an undocumented migrant worker, or even sometimes a documented migrant worker who has their passport being held ransom by their employer

America is all about compartmentalizing the sectors of society and what kind of treatment they get

After Katrina, the news was full of stories of riots and looting, but the reality on the ground was that people were coming together to help each other out. Fascism needs state power and elite support to remain appealing; once that crumbles, the ones who survive are the ones who are capable of mutual support and cooperation. The crumbling's gonna suck, but as everyone else is pointing out, things already suck.

Trump builds an increasingly large MZ around DC for the next few months. He then gets with red state governors and have them do the same in their states, targeting the most liberal cities. Then he ramps up the policy changes and rolls back a lot of established protections. There are massive protests in CA but few elsewhere. He personally gets involved in the NYC mayoral race to ensure Cuomo. Next year is NY's gubernatorial election so that's another election to fix. Then it's all on Gavin Newscum who, for some reason, simply keeps tweeting like Trump. Supreme Court forces CA to redraw their districts "fairly", neutering Newsome.

After that it's just sailing until the next election, working on pet projects. Most federal functions are given to his buddies. Privatized federal police. Reducing the ability for states to change the constitution. Eliminating more regulatory bodies. Protests are impotent and quelled almost immediately. Local cops gain federal immunity from crimes while on the job. We may even get some suspicious political murders like Newsome having an unexpected death with little investigation.

When the next federal election comes up, Trump runs again and uses constitutional justification for serving more terms. Supreme Court allows it. Kamala runs for Democrats and calls Trump a fascist at every opportunity. Palantir is tapped to do voting machines. Trump wins in a landslide. One of the Dem senators says Trump rigged the election. The senator is arrested for treason.

The line continues to go up. Economists are baffled but investors are happy. Deregulation and reduced competition has let Mag 7 reach unbelievable heights, boosting the S&P and forming the first megacorps. We make a lot of cyberpunk memes while dooming.

During this whole time not one person except for internet randos mentions Epstein.

Yeah. Buy guns.

This place is not just cooked it is burned and smoking

Obviously trump is steering us into a wall. We will have a 4 year intermission if we are lucky and then they'll draw the conclusion of we need to be more fascist. And not to be all Mueller she wrote about it but there is a long term angle on locking down/militarizing DC

Going to be?

To be fair, Barbarism is what China had before the communists won their civil war, it isn't always a choice between one or the other.

The current situation is only coming as a shock to those who haven't been paying attention. The disUS has been heading down the fascist-oligarchy road for decades. Any platform for those issuing warnings was removed with the passage of the Telecom Act of 1994 that opened the floodgates for billionaire/corporate takeover of entire media markets and control of the newly bourgeoning internet.

it just becomes more and more overwhelmingly difficult to maintain any kind of meaningful hope for the future right now. things are pretty dire.

barbarism abroad, barbarism at home

Imperialists have been engaging in Rosa's barbarism since before she repeated the phrase. It has just been largely exported to other counteies and normalized by liberalism. Hundreds of millions die every decade from this, from capitalist deprivation, from "failed states" created by imperialists, from "targeted sanctions" of entire nations of mostly children. There is a chauvinism in the phrase, as it is really about the homeward visitation of these exported depravities, that "civilization" (Europe) will fall apart due to the destructive nature of advancing capitalism.

The struggle today is virtually the same as it was back then, albeit with material changes to how different nations' economies have developed. The "service" and "consumer" economies, the rise of China. Europe saw two massive wars inside itself due to capitalism, it did the barbarism already, and capitalism moved on to punch at everything opposed to it for the next century, destroying European socialism and relegating various countries to isolation and poverty. Wr are in the barbarism, we are fighting against it and have, globally, been doing so for about four centuries.

Something Something imperial boomerang.

I can't afford a sidearm and I'm never gonna make it out of this shithole to South America in time. On a good note, I've carefully assembled a backpack-portable 1-man campsite with everything needed, but chances are I'll lose that in the first week or it won't matter much since I currently live in a city and have no realistic chance of moving to a more rural area with ample woods to hide in any time soon. And even in that scenario, I starve. I've been slowly working on my skill at growing vegetables for years but I'm nowhere near where I need to be to support my own caloric intake. At best I'm currently at the "can grow food to prevent shit like scurvy and beriberi" level.