We're going to get the shock doctrine again and again until the end of history, while the global south is left to die

    • WalterBongjammin [they/them,comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      Lmao, completely. Nothing will be blamed upon the total failure of the political system to do anything but funnel money upwards. It'll be totally individualised and we'll get to sneer at the idiots that eat up the more deranged kinds of propaganda, while poor people and prisoners who have nothing to do with them are conscripted to die fighting wild fires that will burn through cities filled with people who couldn't afford to leave

    • happybadger [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      We knew that the empire was over when the mad president declared war on the rising sea by ordering the military to throw EV tax credits into it.

    • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      Become an indentured servant on the plantation of the Canadian agri-zone or die.

      • spectre [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        That's just going to be new vehicles, used gas cars are cheap in the US and won't be going away for quite a while after that. By that time there will be a decent amount of beater EVs which will probably be due for a $8k battery replacement. Also if there are fewer sources of exploitable labor in a decade or two, cars in general are going to get quite expensive as they are in Europe and Asia already.

        The answer is always to develop public transit systems and transit oriented residential areas. What this means for the rural poor, I'm not sure exactly.

        • jabrd [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          It’s gonna be dope to have cars be an expensive luxury on top of a national infrastructure both built for them but also actively hostile to other forms of transportation

          • spectre [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            There's definitely going to be a squeeze from many directions since federal and state governments aren't allowed to look 5-20 years into the future and do something to avoid imminent disaster