Oh, for fuck's sake, look around you, it's going down one way or the other, and the question is who's going to still be in charge of the ashes when the smoke clears
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I'm actually pretty serious here, maybe I'll regret saying this later but the one-two punch of the coronavirus merrily running freely through our population while our governing institutions go full fash has completely depleted my capacity for the requisite liberal pieties here
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I don't believe in America I don't mean that in a rhetorical or ironic or hyperbolic sense I'm not saying it to follow it up by quoting Langston Hughes, "America never was America to me, but America will be", or whatever America is fucked, it's over, it's dead
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Best get your mourning over with early and start making plans to dispose of the body and divvy up the good silverware Stop concern-trolling against the death throes "Mercy to thee would prove itself a bawd; 'Tis best thou diest quickly"
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I kinda feel you and as a not American I should stay pretty silent but I reeeeeeally like to add that imho Trump is the beginning of the end of the American empire and you guys have about a hundred Ears of relative prosperity and slow decline ahead.
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Not for everybody at least. The promise of the american Dream is empty propaganda today. If you haven't "made" it by now, the US is not a place to make a decent life through hard work. A huge (but shrinking) middle class and an absurdly rich elite will be okay for now.
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I think you underestimate the damage COVID-19 will do before all is said and done, just to start with
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