If an 80 year old is the best America can do against growing fascism in their country.
We’re all doomed.
I’m not American but I support the American people, I support the Democrats and the liberal minded people of the country … but the way this election is building up is leading to something terrible. It’s like watching an enormous cargo ship on its way to slowly destroying a popular recreational marina.
I think a lot of doom and gloom haunts this era and leaves us blind.
We entered the information/disinformation age very recently of course it was going to be global chaos. I think it was necessary and good things are ahead.
Every generation believes the end is nigh, they’ve all been wrong but sometimes felt and saw and swear they were right. I’m sure as Rome burned and the Aztec empire fell and the black plague devoured they thought the end was here.
Yet here we are and how irrelevant their issues are today.
It all depends on your perspective and what position of society you occupy.
If you are even a little bit wealthy and live in a first world country … the decline of the global world will be an inconvenience.
For the rest of the world, it will mean death, destruction, starvation and misery.
Every global societal failure in the historical past were all the same. The rich lost some of their power and got little uncomfortable. The poor died en masse.
This isn’t the comfort you think it is. If the bombs light up my horizon, I won’t be thinking “well, at least some remote tribe might continue a stone age humanity” while my entire family is consumed in a nuclear fire.
The Roman Empire one is a harder one, since it was a centuries-long process with plenty of plagues, wars and migrations. It’s not hard to find sources, however, that the city of Rome fell from 1 million to 30.000 ~ 60.000 people.
That’s kind of what triggered my question, there’s a common misunderstanding that the fall of Rome was something brutal and with few causes (that are selected by politicians when they want to scare people). I think Rome losing its population can be explained by emigration rather than people dying.
If you edit to make that a bridge instead of a marina it would be pretty topical. Perhaps a commentary on how the owner of the ship is trying to dodge any liability whatsoever despite fucking up safety protocols.
Yeah, Donald “Muslim ban” “Israel should finish the job” Trump will surely stop this conflict. Jared Kushner got how many billions from the Saudis? That was an award for creating peace in the Middle East, right? Great work, Jared. Let’s get him to head this task force. Mike Johnson wants to send in the National Guard to handle the students. Fuck those students, they should write letters to the editor if they don’t like war. Protesting is illegal, I think.
Yeah, let’s enable the government to go even further genociding Muslims at home as well as abroad. Let’s choose the guys who will prevent us from being able to vote ever again, just in case we change our minds later.
No, you would vote for Biden to stop Trump from finishing the job and killing all of the Palestinians. Not to mention Trump wants to round up immigrants and homeless people and put them in camps. Everyone will be worse off with Trump.
IShe said Russia was basically forced to invade Ukraine by NATO, so… She’s making excuses for genocides too. She just doesn’t care if her funders and the oligarchs she dines with are the ones committing genocide.
Oh and she still has to explain her vaccine skepticism, saying that wifi causes cancer, and her nuclear fear mongering.
If an 80 year old is the best America can do against growing fascism in their country.
We’re all doomed.
I’m not American but I support the American people, I support the Democrats and the liberal minded people of the country … but the way this election is building up is leading to something terrible. It’s like watching an enormous cargo ship on its way to slowly destroying a popular recreational marina.
I think a lot of doom and gloom haunts this era and leaves us blind.
We entered the information/disinformation age very recently of course it was going to be global chaos. I think it was necessary and good things are ahead.
Every generation believes the end is nigh, they’ve all been wrong but sometimes felt and saw and swear they were right. I’m sure as Rome burned and the Aztec empire fell and the black plague devoured they thought the end was here.
Yet here we are and how irrelevant their issues are today.
It all depends on your perspective and what position of society you occupy.
If you are even a little bit wealthy and live in a first world country … the decline of the global world will be an inconvenience.
For the rest of the world, it will mean death, destruction, starvation and misery.
Every global societal failure in the historical past were all the same. The rich lost some of their power and got little uncomfortable. The poor died en masse.
You know that between 50% and 90% of the population died in all three of the examples you listed, right?
You know there is a theory that a volcanic eruption reduced the human population down to 1-3,000 individuals?
Yet here we are.
Believe it or not, my criteria for prosperity is more than “literally somebody survives to propogate my species.”
This isn’t the comfort you think it is. If the bombs light up my horizon, I won’t be thinking “well, at least some remote tribe might continue a stone age humanity” while my entire family is consumed in a nuclear fire.
I’d probably be thinking “Well, fuck. That’s disappointing.”
just shrug at the mushroom cloud and go back to seeing how many upvotes my final meme got
Okay? I’m not offering comfort. It is simply true. We all die one day and worrying about the end of our society isn’t new.
My point is there will be cataclysm. That’s it.
Y’all are so argumentative and sensitive
Any source on that apart from the plague?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocoliztli_epidemics
The Roman Empire one is a harder one, since it was a centuries-long process with plenty of plagues, wars and migrations. It’s not hard to find sources, however, that the city of Rome fell from 1 million to 30.000 ~ 60.000 people.
That’s kind of what triggered my question, there’s a common misunderstanding that the fall of Rome was something brutal and with few causes (that are selected by politicians when they want to scare people). I think Rome losing its population can be explained by emigration rather than people dying.
If you edit to make that a bridge instead of a marina it would be pretty topical. Perhaps a commentary on how the owner of the ship is trying to dodge any liability whatsoever despite fucking up safety protocols.
please don’t support democrats or liberals, they’re genocide enablers
Yeah, Donald “Muslim ban” “Israel should finish the job” Trump will surely stop this conflict. Jared Kushner got how many billions from the Saudis? That was an award for creating peace in the Middle East, right? Great work, Jared. Let’s get him to head this task force. Mike Johnson wants to send in the National Guard to handle the students. Fuck those students, they should write letters to the editor if they don’t like war. Protesting is illegal, I think.
Yeah, let’s enable the government to go even further genociding Muslims at home as well as abroad. Let’s choose the guys who will prevent us from being able to vote ever again, just in case we change our minds later.
as opposed to republicans who are all about stopping genocides 🙄
If you had any morals you’d vote for Jill Stein
No, you would vote for Biden to stop Trump from finishing the job and killing all of the Palestinians. Not to mention Trump wants to round up immigrants and homeless people and put them in camps. Everyone will be worse off with Trump.
IShe said Russia was basically forced to invade Ukraine by NATO, so… She’s making excuses for genocides too. She just doesn’t care if her funders and the oligarchs she dines with are the ones committing genocide.
Oh and she still has to explain her vaccine skepticism, saying that wifi causes cancer, and her nuclear fear mongering.
Especially Trump, who famously pardoned multiple war criminals, he will absolutely be on your side /s
Please don’t support comments like the above, they’re heads in the sand enablers.