• TheCaconym [any]
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      2 years ago

      Watch it collapse and hope in its dying throes it doesn't nuke the planet with its giant death machine. I don't think anything else would work by now. An actual description of the country in a book would be rejected by publishers as 'too on-the-nose dystopic' at this point.

      • FuckingFerengi [comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        Hopefully China realizes soon that an America in decline is a global liability, and accepts that exporting revolution is the only way to prevent global catastrophe.

        • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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          2 years ago

          Honestly I feel that with the newly aggressive belt and road initiative in lots of country's pissed off by US imperialism that they hopefully ramp this up alongside realizing they will need to immediately seize nuclear devices from the US as well as find a way to make sure it's armed forces don't go off the rails.

          • BinLaden [none/use name]
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            2 years ago

            It won't be seizing. The will just economically isolate the US and then defensively intercept any attempts the US makes to use nukes.

            I highly doubt the US has even maintained their nuclear weapons well enough they wouldn't fail to launch

        • DivineChaos100 [none/use name]
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          2 years ago

          I don't think it's that easy to export revolution to a country where the police is military 2 full of right wing dickheads.

          • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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            2 years ago

            Take note that the police are legit frightened by armed responses and militancy. I feel that if any actually sponsored leftist revolutionary front were to occur here they would likely easily hobble police responses (then the national guard would come in and you'd get northern Ireland with checkpoints and controlled movement but even that would likely fuck up things even worse). Overall I just feel the US is actually very internally fragile once that bridge has been crossed (imagine Russia and China just throwing money and arms to every single revolutionary and secessionist oriented group you could imagine.

            • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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              2 years ago

              A leftist insurgency under normal circumstances, with roads and electric and water grids intact and farms shipping out corn and soy, would be crushed.

              However, under unusual circumstances that favored integration, redundancy, inclusivity, and local resilience... if a bunch of stuff were to collapse by an act of God, we'd mostly just have to survive on our own and defend our permaculture communes.

        • TheCaconym [any]
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          2 years ago

          Close to the scenario of Jericho, except in it it's a giant defense megacorp nuking its own country with some help from the CIA.

    • RION [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      Carve out a living as well as you can, try your best to insulate yourself and your loved ones from the impending collapse. Strengthen community ties. Work towards greater self-sufficiency and stock up on whichever necessities you can't easily find locally (medication and medical equipment for instance).

      My plan is to scrimp and save as much I can in the next couple years to nab a relatively isolated property in a climate resilient region when the housing bubble pops. I won't lie, my timeline has accelerated quite a bit in the last month or so.

      • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        It's been amazing seeing lib friends (who previously freaked when I was a open pro gun leftist) now ask me how to go about buying a gun and where to safely shoot it

      • SadStruggle92 [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        Carve out a living as well as you can, try your best to insulate yourself and your loved ones from the impending collapse. Strengthen community ties. Work towards greater self-sufficiency and stock up on whichever necessities you can’t easily find locally (medication and medical equipment for instance).

        What do I, as a Lennie Small type of individual, do?

    • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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      2 years ago

      All empires die, this one is no different and the productive forces unleashed by capitalism has sped up the process

      I don't think we'll have to wait centuries for the collapse to play out like with Rome, and in the meantime our job should be to make sure the "Charlemagne of the United States" is communist, that's the best we can hope for given current conditions