I mean, the rate at which people are dying and becoming disabled due to covid can't be sustainable, can it? This country was running on fumes to begin with. Surely a country with an infamously terrible healthcare system, an economy that runs everything with as little margin for error as possible, and a government that has lost its ability to respond to any major disaster that can't be shot at cannot withstand this kind of catastrophe? What do you think things are going to look like five years from now?
As long as the treats can keep flowing from global south exploitation, and a "middle class" lifestyle exists for some semblance of the population, even just a few percent, the USA will continue in some form, even if vast majority of people live in terrible conditions.
Even if the US can't continue exploiting the global south to the same extent, they'll just turn imperial methods of control inwards. It's already starting from what I can see as an outsider.
The poor rabble will be kept in check by poverty and the police. Boaters and PMC will be placated by treats and Marvel slop. The real wildcard is the working class in both the imperial core and the global south. If only both could rise up in solidarity with one another we'd get something going.
Yeah, and the boaters and PMC will just further isolate themselves from the rest of society. You've heard of gated communities, get ready for gated suburbs with CCTV everywhere using racist AI to profile everyone.
Suburban psychosis will reach extreme levels, expect chuds to close off their suburbs if they aren't gated off already with their AR-15s and not allow anyone that looks wrong in, everytime a BLM protest breaks out anywhere in the country.
The national guard will be deployed to keep highways and airports open. Food riots will spread, and be influenced by outside groups at the same time, if they believe that it can benefit them. Political factions will use the cover of civil unrest to try target key state infrastructure, and shut down the unrest when it's no longer useful. Maybe in other to further balkanisation, get conseesions from other sectors of capital or other political factions, or a split from the wealthy costal states and the relatively poorer interior.
I'm just applying what I've seen where I live to a US context if possible. But I don't see a way out without a revolution in the core and the south.
you don't need to bother prefacing AI with racist it's very often accidentally racist already due to racial bias in the data sets used
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often it is a genuine accident as people use data that they don't look at
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I'll tell you what, the shit I've been seeing coming out of central and south america has been giving me hope. They're doing a great job of pushing back on imperialism and neoliberalism. The working class in the imperial core I have no clue about. I think we all know by now that capitalism is decaying, but it feels like the bourgeois is priming us for eco-fascism. I do have hope that no matter what happens in the global north, the global south will persist and eventually thrive.
Every day, Snow Crash looks more and more like prophecy.