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2020-09-27 at 1:47 PM UTC in Scientists Predict There's 90% Chance Civilization Will Collapse Within 'Decades'
Originally posted by Obbe America has fallen. You need to look up, at the people you’re used to looking down on. We’re trying to tell you something. I have lived through collapse and you’re already there. Until you understand this, you only have further to fall.
I am an American who has lived abroad for 10 years, in the past few years the US has completely gone to shit and this is obvious to anyone outside the country
I grew up in a suburb of a midwestern city. My childhood was pretty standard middle class. Like many of you folks, I went to college and graduated right when the 2008 financial crisis hit. I had a tough time finding an entry level job in my field so I took the first thing I could find which was a $10/hour paralegal gig. (Didn’t get any support from my parents and desperately needed money) Because it was 2008 and I was then living in a right to work state, my job didn’t have any benefits so I didn’t have health insurance or a retirement fund or anything like that. I was basically scraping by: no healthcare, barely any savings and living paycheck to paycheck.
After a few years of that, I applied for a Masters program in the UK and got in. As a student over there I immediately had healthcare and a lot of other discounts and things that helped me live slightly more comfortably. After I finished school, I got a job teaching in the Middle East. The university there paid for my housing and healthcare. I didn’t make much money, but with the two biggest expenses paid for, I had a lot of freedom. After some time, I applied for PhD programs all over (US, UK, etc). I got accepted to a few of them and took the best offer which happened to be in the UK again. I got free healthcare again, a stipend, and free housing. I took on some teaching for extra cash and was comfortable. Again, with the two biggest expenses paid for I didn’t need all that much extra money. In that time I met a woman from a Scandinavian country and decided to move to her country towards the end of the PhD where I got a visa as a cohabitant with her. Again, free healthcare. Once I finished the PhD, I got a job here making decent money. My job puts money into a pension fund for me and so does the government; 5 weeks paid vacation; six months paid paternity leave; healthcare; it was free to have a baby here and all child healthcare is 100% free; work week is 37.5 hours; my union fights for my rights and my union dues cover super comprehensive homeowners insurance.
At this point, I’d have to be crazy to move back to the US. I could probably make more money back in the US, but all of those other benefits would vanish. It’s not worth it. People always say: oh well those Scandinavian countries are small that’s why they are able to do all these things. That’s bullshit. The reason they do this is because the people actually hold their government accountable. Normal citizens know about the state’s budget and debate it. The newspaper debates road construction. Most people are in unions. And you know what because of all that, people actually trust the government. Now imagine what the US with the biggest economy in the world could do if they were actually accountable to the people?? The US used to be the shining beacon to the world. We took on the impossible. Now it’s just a sad, defeatist attitude. Everything seems impossible now and 99% of people are suffering in some way or another.
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2020-09-27 at 7:04 AM UTC in What's the sickest you've ever beenWhenever I read your retarded postsThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2020-09-26 at 6:04 PM UTC in Scientists Predict There's 90% Chance Civilization Will Collapse Within 'Decades'I Lived Through Collapse. America Is Already There.
I lived through the end of a civil war. Do you know what it was like for me? Quite normal. I went to work, I went out, I dated. This is what Americans don’t understand. They’re waiting to get personally punched in the face while ash falls from the sky. That’s not how it happens.
This is how it happens. Precisely what you’re feeling now. The numbing litany of bad news. The ever rising outrages. People suffering, dying, and protesting all around you, while you think about dinner.
If you’re trying to carry on while people around you die, your society is not collapsing. It’s already fallen down.
I was looking through some old photos for this article and the mix is shocking to me now. Almost offensive. There’s a burnt body in front of my office. Then I’m playing Scrabble with friends. There’s bomb smoke rising in front of the mall. Then I’m at a concert. There’s a long line for gas. Then I’m at a nightclub. This is all within two weeks.
Today I’m like, ‘did we live like this?’ But we did. I mean, I did. Was I a rich Colombo fuckboi while poorer people died? Well, yes. I wrote about it, but who cares.
The real question is, who are you? I mean, you’re reading this. You have the leisure to ponder American collapse like it’s even a question. The people really experiencing it already know.
So I’m telling you, as someone who’s been there, in similar shoes to yours; this is it. America has already collapsed. What you’re feeling is exactly how it feels. It’s Saturday and you’re thinking about food while the world is on fire. This is normal. This is life during collapse. Just read what it says on the tin:
LIFE! Now with 20% MORE DEATH!
Collapse does not mean you’re personally dying right now. It means y’all are dying right now. Death is sometimes close, sometimes far away, but always there. Usually for someone else, but someday, randomly, for you. I used to judge those herds of gazelle when the lion just eats one of them alive and everyone keeps going but, no, humans are just like that. That’s the real meaning of herd immunity. We’re immune to fundamentally giving a shit.
It honestly becomes mundane (for the privileged). As Colombo kids we used to go out, worry about money, fall in love — it all went on. We’d pop the trunk for a bomb check. Turn off our lights for the air raids. I’m not saying that we were untouched. My friend’s dad was killed, just gone with a land mine. RIP Uncle Nihal. I know people who were beaten, arrested, went into exile. But that’s not what my photostream looks like. It was mostly food and parties and normal stuff for a dumb 20-something.
If you’re waiting for a moment where you’re like ‘this is it’, I’m telling you, it never comes. Nobody comes on TV and says ‘things are officially bad’. There’s no launch party for decay. It’s just a pileup of outrages and atrocities in between friendships and weddings and perhaps an unusual amount of alcohol.
Perhaps you’re waiting for some moment when the adrenaline kicks in and you’re fighting the virus or fascism all the time, but it’s not like that. Life is not a movie, and if it was, you’re certainly not the star. You’re just an extra. If something good or bad happens to you it’ll be random and no one will care. If you’re unlucky you’re a statistic. If you’re lucky, no one notices you at all.
Collapse is just a series of ordinary days in between extraordinary bullshit, most of it happening to someone else. That’s all it is.
One day, I was at work when someone left a bomb at the bag check at NOLIMIT. It exploded, killing 17 people who were out shopping. I experienced this as the phone lines getting clogged for an hour. My wife experienced it as, well, a bomb, it was 500m from her house. 17 families experienced it as the end. And their grief goes on.
As you can see, this is not a uniform experience of chaos. For some people it destroys their bodies, others their hearts, but for most people it’s just a low level hum at the back of their minds.
What’s that buzzing sound you hear now?
Today I assume you went to work. Bad news was everywhere, clogging up your social media, your conversations. Maybe it struck close to you. I’m sorry. Somewhere in your country, a thousand people died. I’m sorry for each of them. A thousand families are grieving tonight. A thousand more join them every day. The pain doesn’t go away, it just becomes a furniture of bones, in a thousand thousand homes.
As a nation you don’t seem to mourn your dead, but their families do. Their communities do. Jesus, also, weeps. But for most people it’s just another day. You’ve run out of coffee. There’s a funny meme. This can’t be collapse, because nothing’s collapsing for me.
But that’s exactly how collapse feels. This is how I felt. This is how millions of people have felt, including many immigrants in your midst. We’re trying to tell you as loud as we can. You can get out of it, but you have to understand where you are to even turn around. This, I fear, is one (of many) things Americans do not understand. You tell yourself American collapse is impossible. Meanwhile, look around.
In the last three months America has lost more people than Sri Lanka lost in 30 years of civil war. If this isn’t collapse, then the word has no meaning. You probably still think of Sri Lanka as a shithole, though the war ended over a decade ago. Then what does that make you?
America has fallen. You need to look up, at the people you’re used to looking down on. We’re trying to tell you something. I have lived through collapse and you’re already there. Until you understand this, you only have further to fall.
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2020-09-25 at 10:53 PM UTC in How are you feeling at the moment..Pretty damn good. A nephew of mine found out today that a tumor on his leg is benign. 100lbs of stress gone just like that.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2020-09-25 at 10:41 PM UTC in I just snorted 2 lines of ketTHIS THREAD IS NOW A PLH GANG THREAD!!!!!!
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2020-09-25 at 10:40 PM UTC in I just snorted 2 lines of ketAny1 wanna suk my dick?The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2020-09-25 at 6:47 PM UTC in I have no respect for people who dont wear maskedited for privacyThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2020-09-25 at 6:38 PM UTC in Trump admits he knew coronavirus was ‘deadly’ and worse than the flu while intentionally misleading AmericansThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2020-09-25 at 5:33 PM UTC in 🍬🍬Candy~Land🍬🍬
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2020-09-25 at 5:21 PM UTC in Scientists Predict There's 90% Chance Civilization Will Collapse Within 'Decades'The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2020-09-25 at 5:10 PM UTC in 🍬🍬Candy~Land🍬🍬The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2020-09-25 at 3:18 PM UTC in Scientists Predict There's 90% Chance Civilization Will Collapse Within 'Decades'edited for privacyThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2020-09-25 at 2:45 PM UTC in It's Time To Throw This Loser Coward Out Of Our White HouseThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2020-09-25 at 11:30 AM UTC in How will VR manage to draw in normiesYou can't afford PS5, therefore you are a poor cock nose with sunken cheeks.
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2020-09-25 at 5:57 AM UTC in How are you feeling at the moment..The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2020-09-25 at 5 AM UTC in Which act is more gay?
Originally posted by Sudo Although I'm straight I probably would rape whatever that thing is, male or female. Idk the first thing I saw when I saw that picture was holding it down, wrapping my hand around their hair and fucking them in the ass. I can't say for sure whether it's male or female and my brain took their genetalia out of the equation so I feel that makes it less gay.
This is the type of post I hope my family or anyone I know never sees
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2020-09-25 at 3:52 AM UTC in Marxists destroy the very place propagating their ideologyThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2020-09-25 at 3:14 AM UTC in Around whites, don't think twice.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2020-09-25 at 2:28 AM UTC in Should we ban all pedophiles from this website?Children cannot consent to sex. Raping children is detrimental to society. Like people who have urges to start fires in buildings, or people who are prone to violent outbursts, people who want to have sex with children have a condition that needs to be controlled.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2020-09-25 at 2:21 AM UTC in How are you feeling at the moment..
Originally posted by Speedy Parker My cousin and her husband went to get voluntary tests at a clinic. They went in and filled out the forms and waited for two hours. After two hours they said fuck this and left. That was three weeks ago. Yesterday they both got letters from their county board of health that they had tested positive for COVID. I know it's antecdotal but c'mon man.
You've told this story multiple times and with each iteration the subjects become closer to you. You're see through. Please hit yourself with a cane and take the weekend off from posting.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
