lol
so anyway what's it like?
fascinating. people's view of the future is contracting in real time. I think right now nobody can even think past the election. it's like metaphysically, there is no after. it's an event horizon.
what people don't realize is that the real struggle will really get underway in the month before and the election isn't capable of resolving it. in reality, the future as a thing that can be planned for stopped making sense with covid. today we can coherently talk about next month, but that's about it. after October, anything past next week will be iffy.
and in the worst days of the fall of empire, "tomorrow" will be unfathomable.
To elaborate on that, everyone knows it's happening and we're all just going about our routines as though it's not. It's like we're just sleepwalking toward collapse. That event horizon has been passed and there's really only two outcomes at this point: Revolution or total fascist takeover.
I think that's implied in either scenario my point is that something will arise out of that chaos and what emerges is entirely dependent on whether we can fight off the fascists.
no, they mean a collapse of Rome situation where nothing significant emerges for hundreds of years. given climate change, it's not a small possibility, and it's probably the most likely if we fail to secure some form of socialism in the years after the initial collapse of the state and reaction takes hold.
The decline of the Roman empire was so slow, I think it would have been almost unnoticable to anyone living through it in real time. People living through revolutions, though, they probably felt and feel similarly about a completely uncertain future.
Better comparison would be the Bronze Age collapse. Basically every empire in the east Mediterranean was wiped out in the span of 10-30 years (save for Egypt, which never recovered). Much more rapid and similar to a modern empire falling apart.
Being like every good dying empire and screaming about how everything is about to destroy you while simultaneously being totally incapable of actually conceptualizing being destroyed.
"embrace tradition! embrace tradition!!", i continue to insist as i slowly shrink and transform into a corn cob
v cool to see it happening; sux to be trapped in the belly of this horrible machine
trapped in the belly of this horrible machine
And the machine is bleeding to death.
It's terrifying. There's so much just looming on the horizon and nobody seems to give a shit. I live in the northeast so we're not being overrun by COVID, but in my state, 40% of the renting population is at risk for eviction. My mother seems to think that judges will protect people but that's a pipe dream.
I've lost my unemployment at this point and because it ran out at the same time the COVID beneits did, I've lost a giant chunk of what was helping me just stay afloat. I got fired late last year and haven't been able to get a job because for months now, hospitals have been running with as few nurses as they can. They're not hiring because a large number of their own nurses are furloughed. If I really want a job I'd have to travel to Arizona or something at this point, work 48+ hours a week, and live out of a hotel. I just can't do that, I already have a very shaky support structure and moving hours away from it would just kill me literally.
Early on I was excited to be able to work as a nurse to care for COVID patients and every time I got ghosted by an employer it just made it hurt more that I couldn't work to help people during a pandemic. But as time has gone on, I kinda don't want to even go near it anymore. I know not everyone that has COVID is at fault for having it, but with the American population just being fucking stupid and refusing masks, I don't even want to do that much anymore. It feels like the population is trying to kill healthcare workers. To just undermine every last attempt at making things better.
I feel like I'm the only one in my (extremely small) immediate circle taking things seriously. Watching the empire crumble just fills me with dread. I don't feel like I can flee the country. I'm scared of the progressing transphobia and measures trump has done to hurt trans people as much as possible. I'm damn near positive that that the reason I was fired will prevent me from getting almost any job going forward because I have to out myself to even defend myself because my previous employer felt that it was just too unacceptable for me to tell a patient to fuck off after they called me a transphobic slur amongst other things.
There's no hope left. Like someone else said in the thread the view of the future is contracting. I honestly can't imagine where I'll be in a few months. I know there's massive civil unrest coming, but I can't see it. I've hit full despair and honestly it's a miracle I'm not dead yet.
Comrade, I’m so so sorry to hear this. Please try to stay strong as best you can!
It’s like book six of the Harry Potter series. Read it and you’ll understand.
lol it certainly makes history and political economy a lot more interesting.
Feels pretty normal except I have less money and health insurance than I did a few months ago.
That's a fair question, but being banned from there isn't really a punishment, is it?
Probably better for my mental health yes. but I will miss dunking on them. they were SO EASY to make mad. One time I posted "Why do Americans like to eat with their hands so much?" and they got soooo pissed lolol
Unlike I had ever imagined. It's hard to know what is even real.
anything that's got "American" in its name is probably not ready to hear the truth lmao
