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  • happybadger [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    The first return to Timothy McVeigh-style terrorism via some Atomwaffen-like group. The psychic energy that culminated in Trump grew out of neoliberal failures and Democrats have just elected the greatest hits of neoliberal failures. Unless we get some policy not even being considered right now like a Canada-level UBI, social conditions will continue to follow material conditions. The fascists aren’t going to back down and embrace people who make their lives worse. I don’t know if they’ll back down from the Biden-Harris police state because blue lives matter to them, but they say that while stanning Ruby Ridge so it could go either way. If the inauguration goes as badly as the election result did, a clear divided line that isn’t moved by looking at two numbers and judging which is larger, that to me is going to be the cue that some big event is going to have a Jihad Against Joe attack. Some pudgy teenager out there saw Kyle Rittenhouse become a martyr in the eyes of every social group they belong to. Some Qanon cultist snapped when the (((demoncRATs(benghazi))) stole the election that would have made America and therefore their life great again. Both of them watched the brunch munchers celebrating and pretending that issue and the material issues of their lives no longer exist.

    If that happens and the response isn’t some overwhelming federal crackdown on the far-right, I see that becoming a pattern that devolves further. - Happybadger, Public Intellectual

    No big terrorist attack or move toward more organised anti-Brandon Aktion. However, conditions didn't get better which increases the incentives for the right to go that route. I feel about the same in regards to this being a 2022 prediction, balancing the increased tension of an election year with the deflated expectation from this year.

    • bigboopballs [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Canada-level UBI

      There was no UBI in Canada. I never got anything from CERB and all our welfare programs are shit. Also the Prime Minister is absolutely not going to do UBI, even though I hear a ton of Liberal and Conservative party members think it would be a good idea.

      • happybadger [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        I forget what I was on about but one of the benefit payments seemed more consistent/universal than the $1200 lump sum and extended unemployment benefits that the US had. It might have just been better unemployment.

        • barrbaric [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          It was CERB. Some people I know in Canada got it, but it's apparently been over since September 2020.