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people be like "we don't hate republicans; we just hate their policies" and i'm like nah fuck that if every elected republican politician died i'd be celebrating.
I mean that still kinda counts, like i haye amazon and its leadership but i dont hate amazon employees/labor
Years? Try months. Second year of his first term was when the economy first stumbled.
It's weird that Republicans aren't more fearful given that farmers got crushed last year, and fertilizer prices are skyrocketing this year. Both due to the pedophile.
As a farmer who warned my friends and neighbors about this fact during and after the election, the déjà vu of all of this is absolutely not worth the wait. We've literally been here before. And it was bad bad.
I've never wanted to say "I fucking told you so"
I still don't.
But here we are. And they still somehow have no idea. Its fucking wild.
The worst part is knowing and being powerless despite it all. The most frustrating ones are the people that see the signs and are preparing. Hell they will probably survive it too. Lick their wounds and trudge on again. But they never once hit the point where they realize their actions are the reason this is happening.
I'm hitting the point where I don't dread the collapse anymore. In the most nhiallistic of senses, Im starting welcome it. And I'm so damn disappointed that it's gotten to this point.
MIT stats says it’s less than 10 years. Expects world wide full breakdowns by 2030 due to climate change. You thought the holocaust was bad.
Don't we always fear this and rightfully so because every 10 years we have an economic meltdown now?
10 years? I'm pretty sure 10 months is 50/50 odds at this point...
I have insight to a company that does automotive loans, and the number of people getting offers for 30% APR 84 month 0-down loans (and accepting them) is way too fucking high.
People can't really afford cars. The US government considers domestic car production so important, that we are practically banned from buying "better" cheaper cars made in China. The auto manufacturers know this and are absolutely chowing down in the captive market. The working class is going to lose reliable transportation, at the same time companies (and the government) are pushing to end Work-from-home options, and there is basically 0 public transportation in the US.
So a lot of people aren't going to be able to afford the systemically artificially inflated cars to get to their arbitrarily in-office jobs and they can't reasonably take the systemically hobbled/non-existent bus or train.
Oh, did I mention that we've pissed off and mistreated and deported all of the migrant labor that made fresh food widely available and cheap in the US? Oh, and we also emptied critical agricultural water reserves in a smooth-brain attempt to fight a fire 200 miles away. Don't forget, global shipping and fuel prices are fucked because of a war we decided to start to distract from the fact that the president is practically in the Epstein files more than Epstein himself? So come summer, we're going to have no food because we have no water and no labor, and importing food is going to be even more expensive? And that's before the capricious 100%+ tarrifs the president is slapping on everything via a fucking tweet.
Come on... I don't think I could fuck up running a county this bad if I was actively trying.
You have to be joking, 84 month 30%??
They sell them on the amount someone would pay per payment, tell people for just $400 every other week they too can drive away in their ~~dream~~ functional car/truck.
Its the same idea of the 15 easy payments of $19.99 shit from long ago. Issue is people need a way to work so they justify the cost the same as rent and food (that are also squeezing people).
And just like the subprime crisis in 2007 all it takes is one life event and it all goes off the rails.
Not joking.
Still votes for trump…
I’m still 90% sure the fucker cheated - hell he even admitted as much right after he ran
Of course he did.
The evidence of Musk knowing the results way before the actual people in charge did clearly is foul play. They even found Musk manipulating votes and the South African immigrant is STILL not behind bars.
They're dismantling voting systems. Not just the machines, but the actual "systems". The people counting, how its counted, what's valid or not, where you can vote, when you can vote, who can vote.
They're sowing doubt at a rapid pace. Every election that they lose is fraud. Every election that they win is not.
They threatened everybody who was honest. They threatened the counters. They threatened judges. They did Jan 6 and killed two cops and harmed many others.
Let's not beat around the bush. Trump cheated. Period.
The entire Republican Party cheated with gerrymandered districts, suppressing voter turnout, voting barriers, etc.
No, that's not how they did it. They only had to change one race in only seven swing states, and he won all of them, a statistical impossibility. In those states, there were MILLIONS of straight Democratic ballots, with Trump at the top. Who does that? Have you EVER met anyone who votes that way? Have you ever seen anyone claim to vote that way on TV? If those people really existed, wouldn't EVERY news org want to put together a panel of those voters and question them? Where are those people?
I'll tell you where they aren't - in non-swing states. Those states had none of those ballots, they were all concentrated in the Swing States.
At the very least, it should have been investigated, but the minute Election Day was over, the Manchurian MAGA comedy act of Schmuck & Jeffries declared Trump's win "fair & square." That would make it the first time in his life that he didn't cheat, and it stretches all plausibility that the ONE time he didn't cheat, and played it "fair & square," is the one race he needed to win to keep from going to prison for the rest of his life. THAT'S the one he decided NOT to cheat on?
C'mon, wake up your Critical Thinking Skills, and ask yourself if ANY of this makes sense.
If he didn’t actually cheat he absolutely openly tried. Fake electors, calling State governors looking for “a few more votes,” the insurrection at the Capitol, etc.
I mean, it keeps happening.
And we have to keep watching Boomers live their best lives while knowing we won't have what they have.
So yeah, the pessimism is warranted.
I dont fear. I welcome. And really its my main financial benefit.
As do many who come from nothing or have nothing.
I'm thankful as a Canadian I came from meagre beginnings and my dad was a post-war baby in bombed our London. I have first hand experience in knowing what nothing is.
Let it burn.
My 401k has lost 7% since the war. Trump has ruined all of our savings and investments. I also have to cancel all my trips cause gas is too expensive.
Have the day 70million wankees voted for.
Republicans have no idea how the system works (worked). Of course they don't realize what we're doing will cause collapse.
Fear is a strong word for it though. I feared it for the last 6 or 7 years. Now I know it's the only way. The only way out is through it. If any amount of suffering enables us to quit bombing small children, then bring it.
Am I worried about me and my children surviving? Yes, but I'm worried the rich will eat us either way. I hope we do it smart, and organize, and move en masse while the oligarchs are weakened.
Is that how Weeks is spelled now?
That is way too optimistic
10 years is optimistic
This is why billionaires are building bunkers. They know what's coming, because they're the ones doing it.
If you buy the Dollar Endgame hypothesis, the dollar, which hasn't been backed by gold for over 50 years, will become virtually worthless. But, that will only be the beginning.
If you think the worst thing that can happen in America is a fascist dictatorship, you're wrong. This isn't an America problem, it's a world-wide problem. The entire world economy, currently held together by nothing more than incestuous lies and wishes, will very likely collapse, and not in the distant future.
I'm glad my parents died before they could see this, I'm not looking forward to seeing it myself, and had I any clue about this 30 years ago, I would not have had a child.
Bunker building idiots. Bet they’re selfish as fuck and have nothing but items for their own survival saved up instead of maybe a hoard of books, seeds, tools and the like.
One of two outcomes:
If you actually truly need the bunker, the world has gone to absolute shit and there will be nothing worth living for except hand-to-mouth subsistence farming. I don’t think anyone has a clue as to what actual collapse would look like. Congrats, you’ll just starve last.
If you’ve got hundreds of thousands of hungry and starving people and any small percentage know you have a bunker with food and medicine, they will get in or burn you out with fire trying. They literally have nothing else to do and nothing else to lose.
Next 10 years?
Motherfucker, it is currently ongoing.
Fucking goddamn, Americans are propogandized as fuck.
Most likely outcome of Iran war, whether or not victory declared, is that GCC will move towards Iran/China orbit and oil trade in BRICS currencies, with defense from Israel as common defensive alliance. https://lemmy.ca/post/62097698
Either the $200B giveaway to military and "allies" bankrupts the US, or losing middle east hegemony does, along with the massive GCC financialization support of US economy. All US allies except Canada rely on gulf more than the US, and US's Israel only protection focus, means "US friendship" is a liability if not worthless.
Like b43's GFC, Trump's covid response disaster (including intentional policy to make covid worse in blue cities), Republicans destroy economy every time. There is a limited capacity, or number of times, to bail out the system and maintain credibility.
I would pick under 10 years, even though the US is very good at extending collapse. The end will be visible soon, even though the GFC created a "premature batch" of doomers. There's simply no more budget capacity, or pretense of empire strength, that can be credible. Thank Epstein.
$200B is nothing, because with the petrodollar they can just print more. But losing the petrodollar would collapse the US so fucking fast. Petrodollar means sustainable trade deficit, it means they can export all of their crises and let the manufacturer countries (Europe, Japan, China) eat the inflation as they print money. No petrodollar means rapid collapse.
10 years lol?? 10 more WEEKS of 'iran war' and we are all fucked!!!
Must be infuriating to do a survey on the American public. No matter what you are trying to find out around 50-60% are just going to drool on your survey and maybe draw a phallic symbol with a giant crayon.
In 2015, I used to say "A vote for trump is a vote for total system collapse."
Glad to see I was right.
Today's empires are tomorrow's ashes. This too shall pass. A better world is possible.
There have been total economic collapses every 10 years or so for my entire life.
No, there haven't. If you think the dot-com bust or the great recession were bad, you ain't seen nothin' yet!
At least trans people can't use a public john, and dangerous books are being kept out of libraries. That's the important thing. /s
Definitely when the AI bubble pops there will be a financial collapse.
It's propping up basically our entire economy.
That would be just a normal recession. Between fucking with the Fed and basically doing everything possible foreign-policy-wise to destroy the dollar as the world's reserve currency, Trump's policies are capable of being way more disastrous than that. Think Weimar Republic-style, "wheelbarrow of cash to buy a loaf of bread" hyperinflation.