• ORbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    19 hours ago

    I wish people understood how vast and separated the United States is. Even within cities. Getting an uprising here would be a monumental task. It’s hopeless. We’re done.

    I am working on moving to my girlfriend’s hometown in Mexico. I’m over caring.

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      17 hours ago

      I’m working on my exit strategy as well. While I agree that things in the U.S. are going to get much worse, everything is cyclical and there will be a time in the distant future when the U.S. gets its shit together again. The sad irony is that all of this is self-inflicted. None of this had to happen. All of the suffering so far, and the mass suffering that is going to occur as a consequence of a world superpower going rogue and then collapsing could have been avoided.

      I’m a GenXer, and I feel fortunate to have been born and lived during what is now looking like “peak America”. I’ve known nothing but peace and prosperity. Sure, there have been “wars” and “recessions” in my lifetime, but they have been relatively minor and not had a major impact on my life. The changes being wrought now by corrupt leadership supported by ignorant and malevolent people are destroying the very foundations of what made the U.S. great, and will inevitably result in the collapse of the greatest superpower the planet has seen so far. It’s heartbreaking.

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        15 hours ago

        I’m a X-Millennial cusp, landing on the X side of the fence. It is so wild to think about how insanely great the late 80s to late 90s were. Incidentally, I think 9/11 is when the switch flipped. I remember yelling about how the Patriot Act would end us.

        It seems that it did.

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          12 hours ago

          Incidentally, I think 9/11 is when the switch flipped.

          Also X-Millenial cusper. 9/11 probably eould not have happened if the Brook Brothers’ riot had not been allowed to stop ballot counting and the subsequent SCOTUS ruling handed the presidency to Bush.

          We never got Gore as a president but we’ve had gore to spare since George HW Bush took office.

          I’m even more inclined to say this goes back to the Business Plot and Prescott Bush. Prescott’s son, George Bush, would become head of the CIA before he was Ronald Reagan’s vice president.

          It likely goes even further back than that; the Bush and Walker families have had Nazi ties for generations. Timeline of Treason: The Bush Family Connections To The Nazis

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          11 hours ago

          Even w/o 9/11 I think the cons would have eventually taken us here. Having a total piece of shit like Donvict in office and doing awful things is the culmination of decades of their extremist activism.