I’m going to die a very scary, traumatic death and so are a lot of the people who are closest to my heart—we’re all homeless, and we’re all drug addicts, and I have the special bonus of being (sort of) trans as well. I’m already seeing the ratcheting up of hatred for homeless drug users—I’ll be shot in the head and kicked into a pit, and my only hope is that I’ll be one of the very first so I won’t have to live with the pain of worrying about anyone I care about.
So yeah, while I agree that America’s collapse would be a W for humankind overall, it’s hard to fucking see that silver lining when things are that bleak.
I just want the rest of what’s likely to be a very short life to be chill. I just want things to be normal.
Good news, it’s not going to collapse. It’s going to continue the slow decline it’s been experiencing for the past 20 years. Any violence as decisive as lining people up and shooting them will have enough gradual escalation leading up to it, over years, that you will be able to get the fuck out of dodge before it comes to that.
The rate of decline will not stay constant. If it remains on this current trajectory and the rate of change doesn't change then yeah, it will just continue a slow slide for decades. But these things always reach a certain tipping point when the institutions and norms that kept the machine churning fail and then the dominoes fall rapidly.
Sib doesn’t know about the transformation of quantitative changes into qualitative leaps.
There are weeks where weeks happen