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I live in the U.S., and with how fucked the country is with fascists and fascist bootlickers, I don't know where my future lies.
I can't really afford to move to another country, and I can't see myself settling down in this fucked up place.
So I'm just stuck in limbo, and it feels like my future is being held hostage.
And climate change is just the icing on the cake. Shit loads of people are going to die, quality of life is going to significantly drop. Climate immigration is going to explode and provide even more political power to fascists.
Yeah this weighs on my mind much of the time. We seem to be rapidly descending into neo-feudalism/dark enlightenment /whatever, and I think a lot of people don't realize it. People giving Elmo money for cybertrucks or model Y with the light bar, voting red, making christo-fascist policies, etc. And a lot people don't necessarily feel it yet. Some people have a higher salary than before the double salute incident, but those dollars don't go as far as they used to. Plus global warming acceleration with AI and rolled back policies... Looking back, I think my generation's future was already going to be troublesome, but with the choices of my own grandparents, some of my peers, and some powerful and evil people, these could be the best years of the rest of our lives.
I try not to be so doomerist on S. M., but the prompt seemed to call for it