ketan said:
Jimster said:
Why isn't there any more chat about the Copper-coloured clown than this here?
Generally isn't much politics talk from US strutteurs these days. All these years of Trump must have been exhausting.
Yeah, just a little scary! The job losses, but also the ways these institutions are being scaled back/torn down - the impacts of those changes are going to be more random, but there certainly will be a lot of blowback over time. Not to mention the ways the "government" can manipulate the population by taking control of the leftovers/remnants.
I personally can only talk about that shit in so many areas of my life. Many personally painful links to the shit going down. But when it comes to discussing, it feels more productive to think of things in a wider lens perspective now, waves of history, rather than the day-to-day kleptocracy meltdown circus. What comes next seems like the more interesting question - can we pull a new, less fucked society out of disaster? How hard does disaster have to hit? But you can only take that kind of theorizing so far and the daily outrages don't particularly inform those questions, so it also serves as a limiter to the mental damage I can deal to myself.