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[–] 152 points 1 year ago (5 children)

People's minds are growing numb to the madness. This is very similar to what happened in Soviet Russia in the five years leading up to the collapse of the government.

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  • [–] 67 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    It does seem rather similar to the collapse of Soviet Russia. Increasingly little confidence in the government by citizens all across the country. States that increasingly aren't seeing any benefit in existing as part of the union. Its quite uncanny actually.

    There are differences of course bcz there isn't as big of different ethnic groups concentrated throughout the country ready to start their own countries bcz they never wanted to be part of the country in the first place.

    I really dont want to find out whats on the other side of that scenario for us, but it doesn't seem completely unlikely.

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  • [–] 42 points 1 year ago

    Some voted to destroy the United States. Others were failed by the educational system and the media. Irrespective of cause, there's no going back. We're now in a place where "fuck you I've got mine" and "make me" is the basis of our formal society that only recognizes power in all its forms. I do not know what the future holds. I can only say that if this year were a taro card, it's Death, as what was changes into something new an unrecognizable.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I figure we'll see smaller inter-state alliances forming into regional powers. Most likely all of the states that have larger populations will gain a lot of power relative to those with smaller populations. In all likelihood the stratification of wealth will accelerate even further into an absolutely obscene spectacle. The oligarchs will win, in the short term at least, if the federal government falls.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    California, Oregon, and Washington kinda do already. All three states often tie legislation to the other two states also passing it. Like locking daylight savings in place if Washington hadn't dropped the ball.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    dropped the ball

    Saved the ball you mean. Daylight-saving time is a curse which should be abolished not set in stone.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    The documentary, HyperNormalisation, was made nearly a decade ago, in 2016.

    Just a fun tid bit I thought I'd share.

    Edit: spelling. Thanks, u/A_norny_mousse

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Yep. It's been a while. Already contained Trump.

    If you (anybody) haven't watched it yet, please do.

    BTW - and I don't say this to nitpick, just to make it easier to find - the documentary is named Hypernormalisation.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    I know this narrative is wide spread, and I have no chance to fight it, but it's not fucking not.

    USSR has collapsed because of a lot of factors, but the most important of them was that the political elite was willing to change (not to be mistaken with to go away). USSR had an infinite space for doubling down deeper and deeper

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    [–] 52 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    I have a prediction:

    Iran will send agents to America, who will act as ICE members. Through this guise, they will antagonize the Trump Regime - blackbagging supporters, assassinating politicians, and generally performing domestic terrorism on the 'behalf' of the Regime in a very showy and flashy way. They don't need ID, license plates, nor uniforms, can mask, and bear weapons. Any time they need plausible deniability or to cause some form of riot, they can also attack the general populous, and earn a $1,500 paycheck for each colored head they bring to the Regime.

    The Trump Regime has destroyed America's intelligence apparatus, too. Iran has a blank check for destabilizing America, and Trump signed the fucker.

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    [–] 44 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I have seen articles and discussions about all of those items multiple times. We've known trump was an associate of Epstein for how many years? 20? 30? The problem is that there's literally no system in place to hold anyone accountable for anything unless the person being held accountable is just a regular person living paycheck to paycheck.

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    [–] 31 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Texas quietly defunded the border wall. 8% has been built and it's not even connected sections.

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    [–] 28 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Why do you think fascists create wars?

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    [–] 28 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    The US hasn’t been a country anyone should treat seriously since 2024-11-05, and won’t be again until they can prove their ability to hold another legitimate election.

    It’s a coin flip as to whether I’ll see that within my lifetime right now.

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    [–] 25 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    🤔 is this accurate? I don't even follow political stuff and I've heard about everything in that list. Seems like people have been talking about these things

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    suicides, school shootings, spree shootings, and political assassinations

    the three pillars of american education

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Honestly, I feel like Trump and the GOP's strategy for a while now has been to do so much illegal, evil and heinous shit that the media and public just move onto the next thing.

    Any other administration would have been brought to its knees by Signalgate. A few months later and the fucking Secretary of Defense is getting congratulated for not leaking military plans ahead of time.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Classic authorian playbook. Either stage a domestic terror attack or start a war.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago

    "Flood the zone with shit" is working as intended. It‘s chilling to see how quickly push comes to shove and we‘re in a world war once again.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    War, what is it good for?

    Apparently it's good for taking the public mind of a politicians wrongdoings.

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    [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    We have limited ram in our biological CPUs.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    For full explanation please read: Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    There are so many things that should make the headlines that nothing makes the headlines anymore.

    It's called desensitization.

    And honestly, if you think some cazy dude killing two people is what should be on page one these days, you got your priorities wrong.

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    [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    The news has been captured by monied interests for decades now. Stop expecting it to televise the revolution.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I already see way to much news from the USA while the war in Ukrain is a day driving away. We see almost nothing from that.

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    [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    And that's only the last couple of weeks. That list could be a hundred times longer.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Strap in because the next one will distract us from war with Iran.

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    [–] 11 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    We're drinking from a firehose of bullshit and you want me to talk about the turd I swallowed three days ago? Buddy, I won't forget that turd, but there's literally newer and more horrifying shit coming down the tube. It's amalgamating into a giant shit mountain and crushing us underneath it. C'mon, my dude. Redirect your angst somewhere else.

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    [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Idk I saw news and discussion for all these things and when I brought them up with people I know they also heard of them. We all have a somewhat wide diversity on how we learn about current events too.

    I dont think the disinformation/distraction machine is working as well as it thinks

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    [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    Elon's minions are still running amok in our government agencies doing god knows what with our personal data.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I stole this. Quite shamelessly, too.

    Can we impeach and convict and remove/imprison him yet?

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  • [+] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
    [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Mario's Brother also. Although he might resurface in the news in a month or so.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Flood the zone. This is by design

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    [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Just like when tRump became the oldest candidate and suddenly no one was talking about age anymore.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    A pastor? Never heared of "Thou shalt not kill"?

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