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You know, DOGE, fascist president and corporations dictating what people can do, institutions being ruined, laws being ignored. Is there any way out of that or is it over? Is the USA done?

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 days ago

Duh.

Next question.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I heard there was a mentor coming to fix this soon....sorry, I apologize. I mean to say Meteor. Chances of landing up my own ass have increased once more. I probably won't feel it so I'm not too worried about it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

as new data allows more accurate predictions the chance of impact will rise as the earth takes up more and more of the predicted orbit until it suddenly falls to zero.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Are there chances of hitting after it hits us and we're all gone? I'm going to as my wife for an open marriage. You know, maybe have a little fun while we wait for total nuklier or meteorite annihilation. Or gas chambers. I'll be totally naked in the gas chamber!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

No even if it hits the most populated area in the world it's still barely doing fuck all

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

It'll take decades to repair it

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It won't and shouldn't be repaired. We're not going to kintsugi the republic back together.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Unless you get good with a sniper rifle its going to stay screwed for ever. Or if you actually have the gall to try to annex one of your neighbours. Then we'll take care of your problem for you.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Have you read about US History? I recommend looking at presidents Andrew Jackson, Woodrow Wilson, and Richard Nixon.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 4 days ago

Nixon was a CIA takeout, same as jfk.

CIA/OSS blue bloods have been running USA since the JP Morgan bailout of the fed.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (20 children)

Well, it depends on how you define the USA. You mean the Republic of the United States of America? Yeah, no, that's dead. It is currently dead. It died when the SCOTUS made the president functionally beyond criminal prosecution, and everyone has just kind of been playing weekend at Bernie's since then (though the Trump administration is dropping the pretense pretty quickly). Don't get me wrong, it's been dying for a long time, but that was the exact moment it was declared dead. No matter what happens, the republic as we knew it is dead and is not coming back. Nobody believes in the constitution anymore; among our leadership there are only either those who are in a hurry to destroy it, or those who are unwilling to defend it. I think a lot of the American populace haven't sincerely believed in the constitution as an effective charter for governance for a while, too. Imo, we're less than a year from the legislature being dissolved in some fashion of another, unless they just hang on like some ceremonial vestigial organ.

What we get to decide now is what comes next. That's what nobody's sure about. Are we going to have a middle-east style theocratic government? Italian fascism? Maybe the military defends the constitution from all enemies foreign and domestic and we re-form the republic? German fascism? Neofeudalism? Peaceful balkanization? Hot balkanization? COULD IT BE?! BY GOD, it's the ghost of Lenin with a steel chair! Or maybe we'll get something entirely new? It's frankly impossible to guess while we're living in it. I think cold balkanization is both the most likely and most optimistic scenario. IN THE MEANWHILE, yeah, you're still going to see all the window trimmings of the USA; the maps will still say USA, we'll at least nominally still have the things that make America America (like the constitution still sitting in its fancy protective case, as though the GOP didn't just wipe Trump's ass with it), it'll all look weirdly normal while they make the republic's corpse do a funny little jig.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago

"screwed" seems a little mild to describe it

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Yes, and we knew this would be the outcome the second he won the election. I'm staying in the U.S. because my life is worthless anyway and I'd prefer death in glorious revolution than survival, but anyone who values their life should have started their plans to leave in August 2024 when it became obvious he was going to sieze control.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Until November 2024, there was actually a good chance for Trump's plans to be foiled. But yeah, after that the case's been quite clear. Those were the last presidential elections of USA. Or, at least the last ones were the votes matter.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

Wolverines!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago

More and more every day...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Historically, it has to get worse before it gets better. It's gonna suck for a while, but I have faith that humanity will come to it's senses when things start getting bad enough. I hope this whole mess will be the catalyst that leads to great change in humanity in the future.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

How is humanity not in its senses?

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