The heatwave in my area and the one on the opposite side of the country has me spooked. It feels like shit is speeding up and within a few years I'm going to look back on 2021 as the good times. :doomer:

  • aFairlyLargeCat [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Personally I doubt they’ll even do that. They’ve got enough wealth to push out a PR piece every six months to look like they’re doing something. Rest of the time will still be spent living in luxury, and once they die it won’t matter, world ends with them as far as they’re concerned.

    If you’ve got $100 billion to spend over the remaining 40 years of your life why would you care about the little people anymore?

      • aFairlyLargeCat [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Pretty much this.

        I don’t even think the future will be that “glamorous” for billionaires either. We don’t have the infrastructure or tech for these fucks to run off into space. Most will die with no regrets in their walled compounds, a few might die from random suicide bombings etc. The coolest we’ll get is stacking burning tires in front of bunker air intakes and butchering a few as they emerge.

        • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
          hexagon
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          3 years ago

          It just floors me how us, the rabble, are expected to lay down and die. Neoliberalism is a fuck and has poisoned our minds. Jesus, how is there not constant riots and political upheaval over this?

            • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
              hexagon
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              3 years ago

              Logging off just isn’t an option when you have no other community to fill the voids in your life.

              This reminds me of something that black red guard on youtube once said, about how you have to get everyday people in your life, not just online, talking about socialism. I guess I have a bit of hope in how much leftism has made a comeback in the states, at least online, a lot of people are talking about it, enough to get the right nervous.