i AM in a blue state and i am quite happy about that

i wonder what will happen to the internet. i hope people don't throw their routers out once the world wide web isn't

You should try to get your local municipality to try and take over the United States

i liked when helen looked mark in the time and said "it's severancing time"

and mark said "that's the spirit, helly jelly"

I dont live in the US thanks.

Drink Sprite. For Your Wounds.

primal rage is one of those games where i often wonder if it was actually as good as it seemed when i was a kid lol

lowkey, i dont find severance to be as good as every one is saying, but i am a little sucker for any amount of " Dark Bureaucracy " so im watching that goop

honestly i need to remember this for myself too lol

but you have to try

WATER GOES IN THE KETTLE

it was so sad when he tthrew it out :( no chrissy believe in your dreams

started rewatching handmaid's tale this week 👍

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but like like... when large government structures fail, local structures rise to take their place. you end up with petty tyrants but you also end up with small equitable social structures too.

so uh... move to a blue state if you can and you're not already. and if you can't i wouldn't be surprised if we see a rise of aid groups to get vulnerable people out of the worse locations, and incentives for skilled workers as well.

i'm a little tired today so this is going to be kind of rambly, but i can't imagine the united states lasting more than another 200 years lol. as far as i'm concerned we're living through a collapse. the question is whether it's going to be partial or complete. my guess is in the gap states, or alliances of states, will take over what the federal government fails us in.

like when you think about it, voter turnout for the presidency was less than half. only a quarter of americans actually voted for trump. the administration is growing less popular by the decade. it's pretty clear to a lot of people that it's completely ineffective. the loudest voices are always going to be flag fuckers but then we end up with folk heroes like luigi mangione so it's not like confidence in the system is very high in general.

we'll probably see at least one quasi-militarized social aid group crop up, similar to the black panthers. i don't know if the current government will have the finesse to squash them like it could during raegen's day, but that probably won't be pretty whatever happens. probably will result in police becoming more militarized at least in red states. at the end of the day though that'll just result in further public discontent.

whatever the case, it's a process that'll take decades or centuries. rome wasn't unbuilt in a day, after all.

i've been reading the handmaid's tale and the diary of anne frank, also for no real reason

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even if the us were to begin a process of balkanization, the irs is how the federal government extracts value from its citizens, so i imagine it'll be the last to go. in many empires, one of the last bodies to stick around has been the tax collecting arm, long after any actually useful offices are closed.

even the ottoman empire, whos dissolution was pretty fast, took about ten years from what is considered the start of its dissolution. the mongol empire, considered to have begun collapsing after kublai khan's death, stuck around for several decades, and that was also considered relatively quick