We are now entering the "Cool Zone" at a speed never before thought possible
There's a lot of ruin in a country, but yes. Frankly I'm just waiting for the defeat of a US field army (or more likely, a carrier group) in open battle to make it clear to everyone, but that may not happen for a decade or more.
Don't expect it to look like a zombie plague or something. There will be no "the USA is disbanding, hoist down the flag" moment like the SU. It'll be more like Rome or the Bronze Age Collapse in Egypt (which technically survived but just sort of spun apart over the next 100 years.)
In the cities it'll look fine, but prices will rise and infrastructure stop working. Local government will take over what they can. In the country things will actually collapse, but frankly, many places they already have. Things like federal roads and bridges will go away unless needed for military. Poorer states will go under as the Federal Government can't redistribute funds. Richer ones sometimes band together, sometimes squabble over declining resources. People will die in disasters and climate change, but mostly old and poor people at first.
It’ll be more like Rome or the Bronze Age Collapse in Egypt (which technically survived but just sort of spun apart over the next 100 years.)
:xi-plz: destroy the united states by coming over in galleys and pillaging the coast with your superior iron weaponry
Hey don't forget the impending water crisis in the south west. Which will probably begin collapsing richer states too.
The water crisis is something that can be fixed with a single large angry mob, so it will go away after the first instance of mass water rationing. Either the state governments fix their dumb water use laws, or people forcibly reroute some irrigation ditches.
The Colorado River rationing went into affect on the first. Farmers will be losing fields. Even with LV and other cities slowing accepting lawns are not capable of growing in the desert there's not enough water. It would take years of rationing to restore the shed.
A mob rising up and municipalities caving to them or digging irrigation channels will empty reservoirs even faster. The shed is nearly broken and constantly going from droughts to floods is not restoring it. Nor is continued loss of snow caps.
Point is the climate crises is now.
One third of Earth's surface water will be gone by 2060, and the Ogallala aquifer might not last until then either. This is a law of nature thing, not a bad policy that direct action could fix immediately
Being in Washington, you just made my day a lot better. Free us from these other states for the love of god
Washington is techbro hellscape surrounded by psychos frothing at the mouth for the chance to shoot anyone who dares to ride a bike near their gated community. Not saying it's not one of the better states but it's still America. For many people, laws and prison are the only things stopping them from killing anyone that offends them.
Like Egypt? So what you're saying is that mysterious unidentified "Sea Peoples" will show up to raid the coasts?
...It's going to be mercenaries from South Florida, isn't it
I'm saying a climate crisis is going to cause an increase in resource insecurity, leading to flareup conflicts, leading to key resources being cut off, followed by a reduction in internal and then external state capability. Then the Sea Peoples
yes , yes you are ,
dont expect a big announcment , Your PR - Department you call a Goverment , wil do what a PR Department does ... And Announcing a Collapse looks kinda bad , does it not.. ?
I'm surprised RU and CN haven't made their moves on Ukraine and Taiwan. We're weak as hell. But on the other hand it would divert attention away from COVID failures and could possibly reinvigorate US hegemony.
:squidward-nervous:
Calling my shot now that Russia moves on Ukraine first and then China feels out the western response before they move on Taiwan. Calling the first in the last year and a half of Biden’s presidency and the second in the first year of President Vince Vaughn’s eight term reign
What move would China make on Taiwan which ends with anything materially different than what they have now, which is "Taiwan insists it is the capital of China, and China mostly ignores Taiwan"?
That's why I think they'd do it last. Taiwanese unification as far as I can tell would only be for ideological purposes. Russia invading Ukraine is a more pressing issue because it presents real material benefit
The cost benefit of that only swings positively if you think the US is incapable of real retaliation. Which is why I think the western response to Russia sacking Ukraine would be the determining factor. The US needs a Suez Canal crisis first
The USA has many bases in the region. Wouldnt reduce capabikity enough.
Not saying it wouldn't be good but why risk full scale war?
Taiwan is sabre rattling but China is gonna keep its western strategy. Pacifying India and the "stans" and gaining African hegemony is more important.
Assuming there would still be chip factories. Taking Taiwan would be bloody and destructive, more for Taiwan than the PRC. Best to wait out US collapse and slowly infiltrate the Right-KMT towards reunification using the increasing links with the RCCK.
i don’t think its Cool Zone territory. libs will continue to virtue signal, chuds will continue to hold rallies and make a big deal of singing patriotic songs without their masks off at Applebees, and we’ll all just continue to grow numb to the death. capital got what it wanted and the entire proletariat is either too blackpilled and divided to do anything, or rabidly pro-capital.
i’m pretty jaded on this all by now but i don’t think we’ve got any weeks where decades happen ahead of us
edit 2/27/22: lol. lmao.
Nothing materially significant will happen with the sleepwalking centrists until the luxury goods start to get cut off. Given the arbitrary lack of new cars this year, I'm thinking we're close. A respectful, sustainable world is possible, even if it'll hurt like hell to get there.
The only effort being exerted by anyone in power right now is to prevent Cool Zones.
I feel like we need the Sam Jackson "hold on to your butts" from Jurassic Park as an emoji
What the hell is going on in north carolina? Their cases shot up 1500% compared to 50-150% like most other states and deaths by 2.5x
they might have better testing/reporting then other states, also might be a new variant honestly who the fuck knows
The number of articles that say "omicron isn't that bad" is driving me fucking insane. I'm vaxxed and boostered so I'm not worried about getting sick enough to go to the hospital. I am worried that if I get in an accident or have any other health crisis I'll be absolutely fucked because the ICUs are 100% maxed out and that won't change any time soon.
