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We’re ten minutes from going under water.
The 1st class passengers are paying crewmembers to strip the copper wiring out of the walls on their way to their lifeboats.
They are also taking completely empty lifeboats with them, because letting a poor into the extra lifeboats would depreciate their resale value.
The 2nd class passengers are knee-deep in water, but refuse to the believe the ship is sinking because the band is still playing, and White Star Line would never leave a paying customer behind.
And the 3rd class passengers are neck-deep in water if they’re not already dead.
But hey, at least the new Captain likes ice cream and isn’t a dang cheeto, am I right?
- @rubpoll https://hexbear.net/post/128566/comment/1483159
Just thought this comment was relevant here.
it’s not “giving up” to recognize how awful the future is shaping up to be.
how many times do i have to say this? shit doesn’t happen until it fucking happens
imagine if you are a russian in 1941. you know how bad things are going to be if the germans win.
you should take that as a fucking motivator to change things, to make it so that that worst-case scenario isn’t going to happen, to continue fighting, not fucking take that as a cue to just lay down your arms and partake in doomerism, savoring the flavor of horror and bathing in breath of utter helplessness. no. to do that is to ensure that the worst-case scenario is going to happen.
defeatism is a self-fulfilling prophecy. OP’s title is encouraging defeatism.
yeah no shit? what can you do against a walking aimbot?
team fortress 2’s official matchmaking is plagued by fully autonomous bots appearing in almost every single game
they instantly flick and shoot you once you appear in their vision
no advanced tactics are required to make a fps bot that always win, a simple predetermined track and an aimbot is more than enough
ngl browsing PCM is like self harm at this point so it’s probably not the best thing to do
holy shit, this is scary
Black Fungus (Mucormycosis) specifically targets people with weakened immune systems
and a treatment for COVID-19 involves suppressing the immune system, thus weakening it
also, Black Fungus has high mortality rates and has a rapid onset
basically a plague that preys upon the weakened, finishing them off
The death of an empire will not be pretty. When the Nazis fell, they took tens of millions with them. I fear to know how many the Americans will take with them when they in turn fall.
It is most probable that fascist paramilitaries and death squads will roam the countryside murdering anyone who they consider undesirables. Famine will grip the country as supply lines collapse due to the bombed out infrastructure. There will be a second Holocaust, committed not by a foreign power, but by Americans murdering other Americans. Tens of millions (in America alone) will die in the ensuing chaos, many from starvation, others from the paramilitaries.
America is simply too big for China to control. Too vast, too populous for any hope of a successful and bloodless occupation. There are 332,000,000 Americans. America is 9,100,000km2 in area. To occupy something that large would be madness, it would require China to commit tens of millions of troops for the sole purpose of a pointless occupation over a vast land of roaming insurgents. China will not commit tens of millions of Chinese to sacrifice their lives in a pointless excursion to hell-on-earth. It would be political suicide to even suggest so. China can really only watch in horror as everything unfolds.
It is incredibly unfortunate and I so wish it were otherwise, but the bigger they are, the harder they fall. And the American empire is the largest empire in all of history.
accidentally based grandma
Humanity has persevered through worse. We will survive. We will persist. We will win. The future isn’t written until it happens. We will never get to utopia if we give up on the way there. And even if the path is paved with sharp stones, we shall walk on it. We shall fight for our children who will in turn fight for their children who will live in paradise. And we shall ensure that our children will have a chance to fight for their children, to fight for preservation of humanity, to fight for the future, to tread on the sharp stones on the path to paradise. And once we reach paradise, we will be remembered as heroes, as martyrs, as parents. As those who sacrificed everything so that their children may live a better life.
It’s kind of crazy how any criticism of Israel, no matter how light, is now labelled as antisemitism. It’s almost like accusing someone of communism during the McCarthy era, but even more insidious.
