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[-] Des@hexbear.net 36 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah really torn between "some of this will benefit the world when the U.S. Empire dies" and "it might actually result in a more violently fascist, pissed off Network State that can blacken the sky with killdrones to genocide the Western Hemisphere"

I do think if they fuck something up severely enough to cut SS/medicare/foodstamps we will actually see real riots. All the procedural illegal norms shit is one thing but if everyone gets hit in the material conditions it might go bad very quickly.

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 25 points 3 weeks ago

if everyone gets hit in the material conditions it might go bad very quickly.

And every important person in or connected to the democratic party will lecture Americans on the importance of "peaceful protests". I wonder what they'll say if they, themselves, are the targets for violence or even execution. I guess at that point they'll drop the "peaceful" stuff.

[-] TheLastHero@hexbear.net 24 points 3 weeks ago

If things reach this point, much like the Kadets and Trudoviks in Russia, that brand of libs will become irrelevant in the face of mass popular unrest, and then they die or go into exile to become insufferable opinion columnists

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 19 points 3 weeks ago

go into exile to become insufferable opinion columnists

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[-] sooper_dooper_roofer@hexbear.net 10 points 3 weeks ago

that brand of libs will become irrelevant in the face of mass popular unrest, and then they die or go into exile to become insufferable opinion columnists

they'll just pretend they were republicans all along, just like how republicans pretend they were against the iraq war all along, or against outsourcing all along, or how libs also say they liked toxic masculinity all along

[-] buttwater@hexbear.net 14 points 3 weeks ago

I think he wants riots. He wants to redo 2020 but "win this time". He wants to massacre protesters and then massacre the rioters. He has a massive police and military force on hand. In combination with rewinning the presidency and surviving assassination attempts, he's riding very high.

[-] picklemeister@hexbear.net 4 points 3 weeks ago

yeah, the current collapse is not the version that crumbles with a minimum of collateral damage to the rest of the world. this is the flailing, wounded animal thrashing around in a china shop smashing everything within reach on its way down.

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