Yeah true but we haven't reached the imminent collapse part yet.

Yeah, I wouldn't move here permanently. Both ruling parties will 100% have a policy of austerity and privatisation in the future, (as they have done for decades, but this time it's to tackle "the deficit") and like you said we'll be dealing with 50° summers peppered with choking on bushfire smoke.

Add to that the blatant racism baked into Australian society which will only get worse in the next few decades and the growing police and surveillance state, you'll have a perfect recipe for USA II.

“I see the ground is the symbol for the poor people; the poor people is gonna open up this whole world and swallow up the rich people, ’cause the rich people gonna be so fat, they gonna be so appetizing, you know what I’m saying, wealthy, appetizing. The poor gonna be so poor and hungry, you know what I’m saying? It’s gonna be like — there might be some cannibalism out this mother. They might eat the rich.”

Cool dude.

Glassy, think they're called a barback in the US. Basically just all the grunt work for the bar.

I might have a job lined up in a nightclub! It'll probably destroy me but hey it's work.

My brain has actual been melting seeing the mainstream Australian media kick up a fuss about this image. The focus has been completely shifted from the fact that Australian soldiers murdered 39 civilians to the usual red scare bullshit.

Fucks me off I swear to Christ.

Still weirding me the fuck out how little coverage the India strike is getting. Like it's obvious why it's barely even being mentioned in the media but god it's so blatant.

The only way I can be confident in group conversations with people I don’t know well is with alcohol :agony:

What happens to the US in January with the eviction crisis? If nearly 10% of the population are facing homelessness (or barely even substandard housing) and nothing is done to aid I don’t see anything but a complete collapse.

Went job searching around the different bars and pubs in my city today. Barely got anything out of it. Why is it so fuckin hard to find a minimum wage job?

Aren’t you still selling your labour to survive as a programmer? I don’t really see how it’s petit bourgeois going by the Marxist definition.

I've tuned out of the US election for the last week since some more important things are happening locally. What's the deal atm? What's Trump gonna do in January?

Looking through that thread I've remembered why I avoid reading fascist forums and posts

I studied a course on Weimar Germany and the rise of the Nazis last year and seeing the shit from that march is making me feel a little sick. Am I overreacting? Because all I see are very worrying parallels.

So if this isn't for a military coup, what is it for?

Fuck we're a grim country.

Hm yes Trump saying dumb shit is worse than that time the US fucking nuked two cities.

No matter who wins, do we still see America plummeting headfirst into the Cool Zone next year?

So if there's a recount what's stopping the Republicans from throwing out ballots they don't like?

I'm so tired.