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what do you guys think the next decade or so will look like? with the american empire crumbling, i could imagine decades happening. if the government can’t keep a lid on anti-imperialist movements abroad, i could see the us taking its first baby steps toward revolution, not to mention the oppressed nations. at the same time, nothing ever happens. the empire is losing strength, but that’s not the same as saying it isn’t strong. internally, its citizens care more about being able to watch some shitty talk show than palestinian lives, maybe even their own lives. the security apparatus has a lot of money and a lot of toys. the western left is a joke. if the treat faucet doesn’t stop pouring, nothing cool will happen in the us. and if nothing cool happens in the colonized nations, the treat faucet will never stop pouring.
I don’t think any of us can predict it. Nothing ever happens until it does and then the world is telling you to switch to any channel.
My guess: usa is going to have more “random” terror events as the national guard and ice keep occupying entire cities to deal with “crime.” Then the military will start getting brought in. Eventually some soldiers will get pushed over the line of what they are willing to do to american citizens. Then there will be purges within the military. Defections and desertion will spike. Maybe a bit of civil war but mostly just unorganized resistance events within the military where a groups of soldiers make a move before they get purged. Usa will rot from the inside.
the usa slides into fascism like an old man into a bathtub. it’s been on the order of 40 years since Friendly Fascism was written about ronald reagan. i can’t imagine it’ll be like the sa and long knives