Ah yes, it was “Cloud” before, wasn’t it?

Radio for the 30’s. Atomic for the 50’s. Mass production for the old 20’s, maybe?

I just like, don’t believe it. Capitalism is hundreds of years old, and it’s only gotten stronger.

Spontaneous revolution/organisation for revolution has been promised for a long time, and is no closer to happening.

Leave if at all possible. If not possible, set things up to increase the chance you will be able to one day - maybe move to near a border or something, and make sure your documents are handy and you have cash on hand or similar.

Yeah, but which one gets to rule next? That’s why monarchy has been so successful - the king’s firstborn my be a moron, but there’s (roughly) guaranteed only one, and palace intrigue under a difficult-to-directly-challenge figurehead is a Nash equilibrium.

Unless he dies in the first year or two it doesn’t change the possible outcomes too much, I don’t think he’ll be immediately ousted and things go back to normal, which is kind of what you’re getting at.

I guess it’s bait, in that I was hoping for a response, but isn’t that exactly what was said here? The downvotes make me think the rest of you agree, too.

You know that’s not literally true either - America has a reasonable literacy rate. I have no interest in shitting on people, or being shit on, goodbye.

We probably do. Far-left spaces are their own thing, and are almost always labeled as such since it’s a tiny, insular group.

Uhh, just in the sense of being a weak democracy that backslid? Lots. The OG fascists in Italy come to mind. In the really long run they tend to own themselves. If they survive, it’s by turning into the tried-and-true aristocratic autocracy.

Spain made the transition back to democracy peacefully, because Franco set it up to go that way once he died, and there was a lot of outside cultural influence to support it. That being said, I don’t know all the details there, and it’s a pretty unusual case. Italy got owned in war. Lots get owned by a series of coups, like Yakubu Gowon’s Nigeria, for one example.

The US is a new thing, though, in that usually the new dictator isn’t a crayon-eating moron, and never before has it happened somewhere with no living memory of authoritarian politics (which seems to make a huge difference). It’s not going to be exactly like anything else. I answered how I did because Orbon was elected but doesn’t really have a clear ideological agenda beyond power, while Hitler used his executive power non-subtly to shut everyone else down, which seem like the inevitable near-future features of new America.

I’m not even American, it says so in my username. Maybe you’re illiterate.

In the US? Probably Hungary, with a bit of Germany or Chile mixed in because Trump is too dumb to be Orban successfully.

The exact breakdown between the two is hard to say in advance.

Sus.

Okay, have you considered old-fashioned “photoshopping” (preferably with GIMP)?

Then how am I reading, huh? You just like insulting people, don’t you?

That’s still a form of being pro-Trump.

Yeah, in heavily left-wing spaces guns give people the wigglies. Even if it’s not rights, the general fact we live in a world with them is something people try to memory hole.

I was really tempted to stop reading after the first sentence - this sounded like it was going to be an incel thing. That’s probably part of it.

Yes, toxic femininity is a real thing too. Many women are willing to acknowledge that in my experience, though.

Eugenics isn’t a stupid idea on the face of it, but then you look at where our dog breeding has gone…

The good news is that humans are pretty adaptable already. The only things that really definitely could sink us are our inability to react to very abstract, gradual problems and our tribalism.

You first!

Or negative, depending on the crowd. It’s just a polarising topic.

Vegetarianism seems to be creeping towards acceptance, though.

The crazy neighbor, with a collection of 700 guns who likes to talk about how they’re better than everyone else and nobody understands them.

Yep, this is going to be rocky.

Lemmygrad is pro-Trump, got it.