• happybadger [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    12 days ago

    https://www.salon.com/2010/12/06/america_collapse_2025/

    It’s so optimistic about 2020:

    Economic Decline: Scenario 2020

    After years of swelling deficits fed by incessant warfare in distant lands, in 2020, as long expected, the U.S. dollar finally loses its special status as the world’s reserve currency. Suddenly, the cost of imports soars. Unable to pay for swelling deficits by selling now-devalued Treasury notes abroad, Washington is finally forced to slash its bloated military budget. Under pressure at home and abroad, Washington slowly pulls U.S. forces back from hundreds of overseas bases to a continental perimeter. By now, however, it is far too late.

    Faced with a fading superpower incapable of paying the bills, China, India, Iran, Russia, and other powers, great and regional, provocatively challenge U.S. dominion over the oceans, space, and cyberspace. Meanwhile, amid soaring prices, ever-rising unemployment, and a continuing decline in real wages, domestic divisions widen into violent clashes and divisive debates, often over remarkably irrelevant issues. Riding a political tide of disillusionment and despair, a far-right patriot captures the presidency with thundering rhetoric, demanding respect for American authority and threatening military retaliation or economic reprisal. The world pays next to no attention as the American Century ends in silence.

    The rest of it more or less happened, but imagine the military budget being slashed and the occupation bases being dismantled.

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    Remember that history isn’t static. The predictions were accurate, and some of the symptoms did happen, but the empire knew that, so it tried to prolong its lifespan, thus making the exact prediction slightly incorrect

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      I don’t know what universe you’re from but the U.S. has never moved forward in its entire history and in fact has attempted to destroy every country that does try to move forward. It’s also always been run by pedophiles.

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      • US is still bad with Trump gone
      • Israel is still bad with Netanyahu gone
      • UK is still bad with Starmer gone
      • France is still bad with Macron gone
      • Capitalist Russia is still bad with Putin gone

      It is not the individuals at fault, it is the system and it’s ruling class and this is evident if you actually educate yourself, so please do.

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      Nah we need to do more than that if we want a better world (Overthrowing capitalism)