https://www.reddit.com/r/Shortages/

/r/collapse is very fertile ground for agitation, more so every year. This new subreddit, specific to the global supply chain collapses, is also a place where we can speak directly to the emotions people are feeling and the material conditions creating them. If it isn't full of socialists it will soon become full of libertarian preppers.

edit: I've also got no part in leadership there. It started popping up in crossposts yesterday.

    • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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      3 years ago

      Last year I finally figured out what r/collapse's deal is, they're downwardly mobile (upper middle to lower middle) suburban millennial kids who discovered capitalism exists, half of them know it as capitalism and the other think it's "cOrruPt hUmAn NatUre"

      Facets of reality that would appear "normal" or obvious to people who exist under or just above the poverty line gets confused as signals of impending collapse (which to be fair on a long enough timeline probably are)

      Those kids are harmless, but they get worked up real easy, most of them probably never set foot in an apartment until they left for collage

      • SolidaritySplodarity [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        This makes a lot of sense. Huge amounts of individualism over there. I think of it as a liberal prepper sub / sooner depression venting sub.

        • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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          3 years ago

          They get downgraded from Single-family detached homes to Multifamily residentials and those funny duddies think it's the end of the world lol, but there's gonna be a lot more people like them in the future, which could make them assets for American socialists

    • happybadger [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Doomerism is still viable energy to work with. Sure we probably won't win a revolution that staves off climate change in time, but the alternatives are worse and the one viable option for trying will at least hurt the people responsible for climate change while giving that person's family less suffering even when conditions worsen. The shades of doom between that person's children having opportunities despite climate change and being denied opportunities to further insulate the rich from climate change are very broad. Without an attempt it's the kind of doom a stray dog faces when it's put on a kill list. Nobody will come to help, there's nothing they can do, and the benefits of it dying will never be felt by it. You're still speaking to things that fit into that Kubler-Ross model for the grief they're experiencing.

      • SolidaritySplodarity [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        I agree with everything you said and said things like it myself over there. Responses were 100% negative.

        I've had better luck with liberal vegan subs.

    • panopticon [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      Authoritarian nihilists over there

      There are definitely socialists and anti-capitalist sentiments too though