This is all joke and fun until you realize we are heading towards the 30s
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and we totally passed up girls wearing flapper dresses...
You're just not hanging out with the right women.
probably 😭
being middle aged and married, i need that shit to be in the open!
I'm 52, married and up until a few years ago I did dance nights regularly. Charleston, swing, salsa, tango, etc with women half my age was a regular thing. It doesn't have to be weird if you don't make it weird. They were lovely and we had a blast.
PS: Dancing (Ballroom, hip hop, etc) is a great way to make sure you don't lose mobility with age. Once you hit ~45 keeping, your mobility starts to be an constant effort.
sadly I have two left feet... I hear you though. I love to people watch and attractive young ladies are attractive but I'm not asking for anything other than enjoying that moment
Now with climate change!
But didn't we have climate change back then? The Dust Bowl..?
Oh yes, it's going to be just like that, except much worse!
The decade metaphor might fail here but let me tell you it's five past twelve
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Yeah, but shit was so bad we elected FDR who put in motion the things we coasted off of up till about the 80s when we forgot what it was like without that stuff.
Like, trump might be making things happen faster than scheduled. But I'd rather have AOC in 2029 than 2033....
It doesn't matter if we think accelerationism was the dumbest gamble in history, it's already happened.
Yeah but this time we're doing a faster and ahead of schedule.
Let's just hope there's a new FDR to come with it. Sure would love to see that one.
Considering FDR threw 100,000 American citizens into concentration camps because of their race, I think we've already got one
Well, AOC is often only referred to by her initials
I wish AOC could be the new FDR
Yeah but this time we're doing a faster and ahead of schedule.
Efficiency!
We might get there early
Its like before but this time with robots
And adds. "Your neighbourhood's destruction, sponsored by General Concrete inc!"
It's like before but this time you have to subscribe.
At least we skipped a world war 1 part deux.
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Nah, it won’t be the same.
100 years ago we didn’t have ecological collapse.
America was about to have the Dust Bowl and China a drought that caused a massive famine, so we definitely had some localised ecological collapse
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What you mean? People on the 20s were clearly traumatized by a recent pandemic, pushing for worldwide economic protectionism and isolationism, revolting against and dehumanizing people that practiced "sexual dissidence"...
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
– George Santayana,
The Life of Reason, 1905. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.
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It’s going to take the young to fight the fascists in America. Hope they are ready.
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We didn't even make it the full decade. We did the whole pandemic thing but just passed on a new Jazz age with interesting new music and style, said no thanks to the libertine philosophy, and decided to fast forward 5 years and let this dusty old turd and his lame wrecking crew of Christian nationalists and the least intelligent pack of nerds that has ever existed, nose dive us right into the fucking ground.
There's no way this motherfucker couldn't just hire somebody to do the tariffs math right. He literally had all the money to hire the most talented people bc he's just been stealing it from us constantly. Instead he and his crew are such cheap little shit stains that they decided to just have AI handle it and fuck it all up as always. And now their big master plan is to dump whatever fucking money is left into more AI!?! Because they still don't fucking comprehend that's not the God damn solution to everything!?!
Fuck I hate these dumb fucks so God damn much
God, I bet all of history's previous dictators are just shaking their heads while they burn in hell because this guy is such a fucking joke.
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Ugh, we learned nothing.
Capitalism leads to imperialism and fascist. Fascists are the useful idiots of empire. A collective suicide in a exponential function. It will end the human race and most life on earth..
Don't forget the eldritch horror.
Any day now, Elon will announce that the real reason they need ~~Greenland~~ Ultima Thule is so he can perform a ritual to awaken Azathoth and end the simulation.
At least we believe in science and modern medicine
" The statement of the Soviet scientist’s is very interesting. Does he know what this alternative energy source will be? No, he simply has faith. Science will find a way. I hear revolutionary Marxists saying that the destruction of the environment, pollution, and radiation will be controlled. And I see them act on their words. Do they know how these things will be controlled? No, they simply have faith. Science will find a way. Industrialization is fine and necessary. How do they know this? Faith. Science will find a way. Faith of this sort has always been known in Europe as religion. Science has become the new European religion for both capitalists and Marxists; they are truly inseparable; they are part and parcel of the same culture. So, in both theory and practice, Marxism demands that non-European peoples give up their values, their traditions, their cultural experience altogether. We will all be industrialized science addicts in a Marxist society.
I do not believe that capitalism itself is really responsible for the situation in which American Indians have been declared a national sacrifice. No, it is the European tradition; European culture itself is responsible. Marxism is just the latest continuation of this tradition, not a solution to it. To ally with Marxism is to ally with the very same forces that declare us an acceptable cost.
There is another way. There is the traditional Lakota way and the ways of the other American Indian peoples. It is the way that knows that humans do not have the right to degrade Mother Earth, that there are forces beyond anything the European mind has conceived, that humans must be in harmony with all relations or the relations will eventually eliminate the disharmony. A lopsided emphasis on humans by humans — the European’s arrogance of acting as though they were beyond the nature of all related things — can only result in a total disharmony and a readjustment which cuts arrogant humans down to size, gives them a taste of that reality beyond their grasp or control and restores the harmony. There is no need for a revolutionary theory to bring this about; it’s beyond human control. The nature peoples of this planet know this and so they do not theorize about it. Theory is an abstract; our knowledge is real.
Distilled to it’s basic terms, European faith — including the new faith in science — equals a belief that man is God. Europe has always sought a Messiah, whether that be the man Jesus Christ or the man Karl Marx or the man Albert Einstein. American Indians know this to be truly absurd. Humans are the weakest of all creatures, so weak that other creatures are willing to give up their flesh that we may live. Humans are able to survive only though the exercise of rationality since they lack the abilities of other creatures to gain food through the use of fang and claw."
- Russel Means of the Lakota People (Full speech here)
“Of all the teachings we receive, this one is most important: Nothing belongs to you of what there is, of what you take, you must share.”
Chief Dan George
This is the kind of knowledge and wisdom I grew up with as a traditional Ojibway-Cree in northern Ontario. A common saying or idea that many of our Elders always reminded us is that 'life is short, so terribly short' and the thought that 'what you gain and the wealth you own in this life means nothing because you can't take it with you when you die'
Lots of circumstances are thankfully different. China's not in a Civil War. America is limited by geography, where as Germany had lots of choices on who to invade. There's no external cause for America's economic woes, where as Germany was having their economy drained by outside forces (eg. France, Britain).
No, this won't be as bad as WW2. Or rather the decisions are more distributed, so it's less likely to be.
Oh fuck off, Germany ended where it was because of the great depression. What you mentioned are just aggravating factors. Take that Nazi propaganda elsewhere
But, to your other point, USA projects so much power, they could invade virtually anywhere and get away with it. Look at Iraq.
My bet is a test run on Cuba, because "Guantanamo is getting too small". Then maybe a chunk of Mexico.
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I woke up the other day and thought, "What if Putin launched a nuclear war on the US? And the current administration knew beforehand but did nothing other than leave the country in advance of the bombs making impact?"
Now that Trump is sinking us on education and science, China will have or maybe already has the superior military, tech wise. They will be able to pop over and take resources. They’ve surveilled, remember the balloons? Not high tech per se, but if you consider the means as a camouflage on immediate threat and a +10 to hide in plain sight it makes more sense.
Remember. China stopped selling chips to our defense contractors right after Trump, this time around. Why?
Many of the things Trump is doing that are making headlines right now are helping tank the military. I know, we want shrinkage on what we dole out to defense contractors. That’s not this. What Trump is doing is lowering the quality by reducing tech and the education to pull from to run, develop, and innovate that tech. China never stopped working on those things.
Consider the world game here. Climate change is here and that makes the new long game a resource consolidation to try to be last country standing as things crumble. Resource consolidation IS why Trump is going on about Greenland and Canada.
And they stopped selling us rare earth minerals. We won't even be able to build anything more complex than a toaster
https://www.reuters.com/world/china-hits-back-us-tariffs-with-rare-earth-export-controls-2025-04-04/
Edit: source
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