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.
It won't be leftists celebrating empire collapse that will be going after people. When these institutions fail, the power sources most likely to be able to carry on, are also incidentally, exactly where a lot of conservative social and economic power is concentrated - these will use fascistic methods, because they are the methods of that class, they will justify leaving the weak to die, or actively killing them so as to justify the proscription and hoarding of resources and what will assureidly include a robust violation of of other social norms - everything that's been politely hidden behind privacy laws and norms will be actively destroyed, the scapegoats will be the people on the periphery that are least able to comport to whatever game of musical chairs that powered elite will want to play, which is gonna include the unhoused and the gender strange (it scares me quite a lot as a transfemme ngl)
and leftists being glad that maybe the beast will be too busy re-growing limbs and heads to do another genocide abroad - are not going to be the enemy, but their status as useful friends will come down to how they are also reacting to that moment, because anybody going ~WoOp wOoP D2A~ and otherwise sitting on their ass and trying to figure out how to comport to the new normal, are useless.