SankaranSpy@hexbear.net to askchapo@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 year agoHow long do you think that the USA has left before it collapses?message-squaremessage-square140fedilinkarrow-up160arrow-down10
arrow-up160arrow-down1message-squareHow long do you think that the USA has left before it collapses?SankaranSpy@hexbear.net to askchapo@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square140fedilink
minus-squareFourteenEyes [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up59·1 year agoCollapse takes decades. It’s happening now and has been since 9/11.
minus-squareCummunism [they/them, he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up32·edit-21 year agoif not since 9/11 then since Reagan, which shows how long it has taken.
minus-squareFourteenEyes [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27·1 year agoReagan did shit that was easily reversible but never got reversed W committed us to multiple wars costing trillions of dollars and making us even more enemies than we already had
minus-squareCummunism [they/them, he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·1 year agothey both wrecked the economy and country in their own special way.
minus-squareFourteenEyes [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up42·1 year agoClearly defined shift in foreign policy that also began hollowing out our economy in earnest, very easy to point to as a tipping point
minus-squarecryptymythy [he/him, any]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·1 year agobut those $600 in bush bucks was nice, just had to let them loot everything else
minus-squareBurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoThat’s not a bad date to pin it at. Reminds me of how there’s multiple dates that historians place the end of the Roman Empire at
Collapse takes decades. It’s happening now and has been since 9/11.
if not since 9/11 then since Reagan, which shows how long it has taken.
Reagan did shit that was easily reversible but never got reversed
W committed us to multiple wars costing trillions of dollars and making us even more enemies than we already had
they both wrecked the economy and country in their own special way.
Why particularly 9/11?
Clearly defined shift in foreign policy that also began hollowing out our economy in earnest, very easy to point to as a tipping point
but those $600 in bush bucks was nice, just had to let them loot everything else
That’s not a bad date to pin it at. Reminds me of how there’s multiple dates that historians place the end of the Roman Empire at