Taking out 9 substations and crippling the entire country. Very interesting info ahem President Xi ahem
kinda highlights how easy a crippling attack could be if the u.s. ever went up against someone their own size
Since apparently America really is collapsing, we should have a dedicated community that generates explains, extremely explicitly, why every embarrassing crisis is a failure of neoliberalism and/or capitalism at the core. /c/collapse maybe? Full throated This Shit Doesn't Fucking Work And It's Time To Fucking Do Something Different God Damn It Why Is This So Hard. Neoliberalism is invisible to most people, and maybe that's the point, but I'M shocked at how badly America handles every little problem by now and I dunno, I guess it's just going to get worse and worse. And they're going throw up pathetic explanations like blame wind power or claim China engineered COVID to destroy America :amerikkka:. It seems like we're careening from catastrophe to catastrophe now.
So everyone is going to be seeing some fucked up shit and someone needs to illustrate what's happening to us. We need to explain why our society is not equipped to deal with anything and we need to simplify it enough so everyone affected can understand.
We absolutely need a c/collapse. It would help build the narratives that then work in r/collapse and drag that crowd, materialists even if they don't consciously know it, over to here.
Real "drop a grand on survival supplies this second" energy in this vidya.
don't have that much money to spend on survival supplies. i already spent all my money on survival supplies
Wait.
So if people just burnt down 9 power plants it would kill 300 million people?
what?
Also, don't ever share a video without a fucking rewind feature
yeah for a nation with so much military spending and hypothetical defense planning, having your entire nation collapse over 9 rotting old substations going offline at once seems like a MASSIVE fucking flaw that the US military should be inclined to... you know... fix that?
Yeah it's America so like, anything is possible, but I'm really doubting this scenario.
It must be possible to lay some extra electrical lines here and there, and only have power out for like, a couple weeks, a month or something, and only kill like, thousands of people, not the whole ass country.
President Xi: sabotage the 9 electrical substations and free us from this nightmare.
According to some nerd in a different video, the cost of hardening the national grid would be, at most, $4 billion. Half the cost of an aircraft carrier.
That means we can't afford it, actually. ( * approves new military budget * )
The yearly discretionary budget is 1.5T
wowowowowowow
The EMP Commission estimates that a nationwide blackout lasting one year could kill up to 9 of 10 Americans through starvation, disease, and societal collapse.
what the fuck (pdf)
longest a video can be is 60 seconds, so gotta talk fast if you have a lot to say
If we ask Eminem maybe we can get the bread book up in like 6-7 videos
If we ask the guy from clipping, we can go for 4
I don’t know specifically, but it’s like a Vine replacement in the end. Short videos so you get in a cycle of scrolling endlessly.
tiktok and discord style communications are going to obliterate our brains
It’s on reddit here https://old.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/ln2kem/how_the_usa_electrical_grid_is_more_precarious/
