#JustDyingEmpireThings

  • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Me, praying for death to America: :party-sicko: :xi-plz: :covid-cool:

    Me, living in America when death comes: :scared: :sweat: :stalin-stressed:

  • coeliacmccarthy [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Native American life expectancy is between that of Afghanistan and Sudan right now

    This country is one giant slaughterhouse

  • supdog [e/em/eir,ey/em]
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    2 years ago

    I read that life expectancy is so predictive they used it to predict the india China split and the fall of the ussr.

    • cawsby [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      The United States should still peak around 500 million people in the mid-to-late 2100s. Immigration is still driving population growth across the US. Without it, many farming communities would have vanished long ago.

      The US can keep going due to immigration indefinitely. Old white people die and young brown families move in - circle of life.

      • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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        2 years ago

        The US can keep going due to immigration indefinitely.

        In theory, sure. But in practice, you're still staring down infrastructure decay who's maintenance has been deferred for far too long.

        At some level, all the immigrants in the world don't help you if you're power plants burn out and your cities flood after every big rain.

      • RamrodBaguette [comrade/them, he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Imagine, though, if the :frothingfash: get what they want and tighten the vise on immigration.

        We got a taste of it from Trump which adversely affected the economy ("work shortages" included) but they just doubled down.

        • Shoegazer [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          I’m really curious what pure fascism will look like in the US when all the production is in china and all the migrant workers aren’t allowed in the US lol. Like, are they just gonna somehow convince the bourgeoisie to bring back production?

      • Shoegazer [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        The United States should still peak around 500 million people in the mid-to-late 2100s.

        :NOOOOO:

    • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      women tend to have longer life expectancy across the board it hs to do with men having weaker immune systems

        • GorbinOutOverHere [comrade/them]
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          2 years ago

          you laugh at the stupid shit men do but where would we be without it?? would we know it's a bad idea to mess around with plutonium cores and screwdrivers if Dudes did not Rock???? yea I thought so

            • GorbinOutOverHere [comrade/them]
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              2 years ago

              Haha yeah

              The tl;dr is two halves of a beryllium sphere were supposed to be held apart by metal shims, but this guy didn't wanna use the shims and used a screwdriver instead. He also liked to fuck around with it as a show and, woops, one day fucked it up, the screwdriver slipped, the sphere slammed closed and because beryllium reflects neutrons the core went critical and dosed everyone present with lethal radiation

              This was the second time this specific core was involved in killing people

              https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core

              • kristina [she/her]
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                2 years ago

                mm yeah you couldnt get me in the same room as a core without a bunch of fuckin equipment and even then id be super far away

    • CrimsonSage [any]
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      2 years ago

      My friends and I were joking at the beginning of the pandemic that they would give cis dudes free estrogen before they gave it to trans women.

  • amyra [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    cool, now lose 26 years of life expectancy

  • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    :sicko-yes: "Yes, fucking collapse already!"

    :sicko-no: "A lot of the loss of life expectancy is within marginalized communities and poor healthcare access involving minorities..."

  • Hohsia [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    with indigenous peoples experiencing the biggest decline

    Genocidal empire. Not only did they take their land 200 years ago, they’re still killing them off

    :amerikkka: