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cjbgkaghtoday at 1:58 AM1 replyview on HN

The looting stage of collapse, people tend to think someone will come and save things but so long as there is more money in decline the leaders will do that instead.


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ericmaytoday at 2:07 AM

The collapse as you call it is occurring precisely because we started hating ourselves and pitted one another against one another, whether that’s by class, race, or gender. And both major political parties are guilty of that to varying degrees. We are an unserious society, obsessed with the new Buc-eez gas station, TikTok, and abstract art. We forgot that Communism and Fascism are social death spirals, and that good governance requires not just an education but a desire to learn and engage. If this is collapse (it’s not) it’s largely because of factors such as that. Sometimes I don’t blame the Islamic fundamentalists and their chants of Death to America. I’d fight to the death too to stop some dumb ass gas station beaver and a bunch of MAGA folks and furries from setting up shop in my country too, if only it hasn’t already happened here.

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