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?

  • Philosoraptor [he/him, comrade/them]
    ·
    3 years ago

    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

    Every day, Snow Crash looks more and more like prophecy.