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Rant
This country sucks. Everything here sucks. Leaving is too expensive, living is 5x more expensive.
- We can't rent because our credit is too shitty, and we can't get jobs because they want us to live somewhere to get mail. The place we WERE getting mail said they wouldn't keep delivering the mail even though the owner is okay with it.
- We can't afford food, but some food banks are now SO busy they're a 3 hour wait. It's gotten 30x worse this winter; we have started seeing some NICE-ass cars here. Some even say we're too well off for free food because we have a car to sleep in (wow thanks)
- We're "too well off" for state assistance, and somehow not disabled enough for fed assistance (rare spine fusing disorder, I look like a pretzel)
USA is giving hundreds of billions of dollars to Ukraine. USA is giving hundreds of billions of dollars to Israel.
- Republicans want us to take some imaginary fairy jobs with our super-bootstraps and buy the nearest $12,000 house.
- Democrats want to suck off the establishment regardless of what they do to us (please don't protest unless they're "legal protests!" You have to vote for the man who made homelessness illegal or the scary orange fuher will win!)
If a 3rd party couldn't win THIS election of all fucking elections, it's never happening without intense violence.
- The good thing is that the surveillance state would never let that happen, whew! Really glad we don't have the gulag here unlike that shitty "communist" country that houses everybody /s.
If we didn't get healthcare reform after Trump's covid party, it's NEVER happening.
- Two of our best friends have severe Huntington's disease and their insurance doesn't cover their meds. But at least their insurance company made $90,100,000,000 in profits this year! WooHoo!!
At least stocks are up biggly!
- I'm sure that has nothing to do with inflation and the collapsing USD!
Meanwhile; in burger-fuck-town, our dumbass citizens weren't educated enough to do anything other than guzzle sugar and argue about their side of the culture-war.
- Maybe it's the 3,000 people who own half of the worlds wealth's problem? Nah, it's gotta be trans people!
- Maybe the 1% is the problem? Nah, it's gotta be those dumbass racist white folk in Alabama's fault!
- Maybe corporations are to blame? No, I'm pretty sure it's the student protestors! They should have known better than to break the law!
Our homelessness is ILLEGAL where we live, and fucking SLAVERY is legal for anybody who had the misfortune of being stuck in housing limbo.
- It's very clear the establishment is pushing people into labor camps and torturing anybody who refuses the labor (I mean who gives a fuck if prisoners kill themselves in solitary confinement, AMIRIGHT?)
Easier to tell people it's all fine with print media being the only way to know what the rest of the country is doing.
These days you see >90% home ownership countries regularly on the internet.
They can't just "oh it'll be fine" the next great depression (which is realistically right around the corner)
I think the basic minimum requirement is that the US loses its position as the home of the labor aristocracy. Every country and context is different so just looking to past countries' revolutions and trying to impose the formula won't work, but it also can't happen if the US is still top dollar (pun intended) and USians still have actual hope that "it'll be fine". Things would probably have to get to Great Depression levels at least and also be in a situation where the US Empire as such has already collapsed.
Revolution within the Empire, I think, is just an idealistic dream. Another reason why the US is doing everything it can, and will sacrifice anything, not to lose that position to anyone. It's still good to be well-organized already for when the moment happens, but I think anyone who thinks is coming sooner than that is puffing some strong hopium.
Like, something might be on the table when we hit like 10% homelessness and another 20% on the verge, as well as widespread food insecurity.
If Trump actually does the tariffs he’s talked about and we get hit by a couple bad climate-change-related-events though, that could happen sooner than we think.
I honestly think we are either already at or close to those numbers.
I do tend to think the bar for uprising/revolutuon/collapse is lower than it was 100-150 years ago, but we still have a long way to go. And if things do pop off it’ll get much worse for a long time before it gets better.
My bet for where the US will be in 30 years is basically Syria with more guns