SankaranSpy [none/use name] to askchapo • 9 months agoHow long do you think that the USA has left before it collapses?message-squaremessage-square139 fedilinkarrow-up160
arrow-up160message-squareHow long do you think that the USA has left before it collapses?SankaranSpy [none/use name] to askchapo • 9 months agomessage-square139 Commentsfedilink
minus-squareFourteenEyes [he/him]hexbear59·9 months agoCollapse takes decades. It's happening now and has been since 9/11. link
minus-squareCummunism [they/them, he/him]hexbear32·edit-29 months agoif not since 9/11 then since Reagan, which shows how long it has taken. link
minus-squareFourteenEyes [he/him]hexbear27·9 months agoReagan did shit that was easily reversible but never got reversed W committed us to multiple wars costing trillions of dollars and making us even more enemies than we already had link
minus-squareCummunism [they/them, he/him]hexbear19·9 months agothey both wrecked the economy and country in their own special way. link
minus-squareFourteenEyes [he/him]hexbear42·9 months agoClearly defined shift in foreign policy that also began hollowing out our economy in earnest, very easy to point to as a tipping point link
minus-squarecryptymythy [he/him, any]hexbear21·9 months agobut those $600 in bush bucks was nice, just had to let them loot everything else link
minus-squareBurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]hexbear4·9 months agoThat's not a bad date to pin it at. Reminds me of how there's multiple dates that historians place the end of the Roman Empire at link
Collapse takes decades. It's happening now and has been since 9/11.
if not since 9/11 then since Reagan, which shows how long it has taken.
Reagan did shit that was easily reversible but never got reversed
W committed us to multiple wars costing trillions of dollars and making us even more enemies than we already had
they both wrecked the economy and country in their own special way.
Why particularly 9/11?
Clearly defined shift in foreign policy that also began hollowing out our economy in earnest, very easy to point to as a tipping point
but those $600 in bush bucks was nice, just had to let them loot everything else
That's not a bad date to pin it at. Reminds me of how there's multiple dates that historians place the end of the Roman Empire at