Yall the history majors have been freaking the fuck out for over a decade
Source: am history major and have been freaking the fuck out for over a decade as have several classmates and other historians
I am not a history major, but I got a 5 on AP US History… and have degrees in Econ and Poli Sci.
Basically, the last 10 years for me has been everyone I know thinking I am literally insane.
And then roughly 90% of what I was saying would happen, has now happened, within +/- 2 years of when I said it probably would.
None of them have bothered to apologize for being wrong, emphatically, derisivesly wrong, about basicsally everything, so, fuck em, and fuck this country honestly.
I feel for you, none of us are getting apologies of any kind, nor are we likely to get any accolades for being right. Shit sucks
Fuck em, they are bad people.
A friend would not mock someone for being mostly correct about things most of the time.
This is the behavior of either an insecure person, an idiot, a narcissist, or some combo of all three.
They also have low EQ and low self awareness and low empathy if they cannot figure out 1) how wrong they were and 2) how much they emotionally hurt you by being pigheadedly wrong.
So maybe throw a bit of sociopathy in there too.
Again, fuck em, they are bad people if it never occurs to them to apologize to you.
Way after the fact but sober question, are there people in your life that you know have realized you were right and you can tell but they don’t actually say it? I have one or three of them
Nope. Not myself no.
Most of the people who used to be in my life probably think I am dead, as I ghosted everyone.
Without going in to a lot of detail, I got very tired of being a doormat in many other ways, absued in many other ways, some actually criminal, some resulting in serious physical injuries to myself, and I disappeared myself.
Frankly, with few exceptions, if one of these people managed to contact me somehow, I would literally just demand they pay me to speak to me, and then after they pay me, I would change my phone number and/or move again, wipe out and redo my (ephemeral) online presence/accounts, etc.
I have had friends start to freak out this term. I told them that most of this same stuff happened last term, you just didn’t hear about it (or listen to what I was saying) for some reason. Granted, he’s become much, much worse since our conversations in February because of SCOTUS backing him, but he had concentration camps last time as well.
I mean, Trump did Jan 6th, said he wanted to be a dictator, Project 2025 outlined everything that was going to be, and is currently being done.
It was not any kind of difficult to figure this out lately, unless one just prides themself on being ignorant or has some kind of unexamined onion layers of normalcy bias at the same they are angry and worried about how not normal things are.
Oh well, cognitive dissonance is a bitch I guess, time for the Great Filter to attempt to cull that out of the gene pool.
They weren’t voting for him, but they have kids and both work full time jobs. They just didn’t know how bad it was. The media hides most of this stuff from the front page as well. You have to figure it out for yourself.
Two books you might want to check out are The Death of Expertise by Tom Nichols and “The Tyranny of Merit” by Michael Sandel. Here is a link to his TED profile and talks. Both talk about why this is happening and how we got here. While somewhat depressing, I found both books very validating(? can’t put a word to it) of all the frustration with family/friends these last years. Education has been gutted and imho real history is no longer taught. Add the internet and social media to the culture and suddenly everyone is an expert. In less than a year, he has destroyed the integrity, reputation and effectiveness of every federal agency made to keep us safe and let us sleep at night. The UN has been effectively neutralized by our vote on the security council. It’s maddening beyond words and I’m scared shitless of what’s to come.
I will try and check those out, thanks for the reading list =D
But uh… yeah.
I had a terrifying ‘validation’ moment when I realized that +/- 1 year of when I graduated Uni…
That was the peak of average US literacy and math abilities.
I have always gotten a lot of shit for describing myself as usually the most intelligent person I know personally, in the real, in most social situations I am in…
And well now the chances of me personally running into someone on my level who is younger than me are approaching zero.
Most people I meet, even doctors, other kinds of professionals… they do not believe me when I tell them I have two degrees and used to work for MSFT, a Fortune 500 logistics company, that I independently taught myself how to code in multiple programming languages and SQL, unrelated to my degrees, that I have enough knowledge to build a video game from “scratch” (yay Godot!), because I have also been making video game mods for two decades…
They just think I am literally crazy and making it up, because I don’t look or talk like a corpo type.
Yep, I just love it here.
refreshes frontpage/new for the 60th time today to see if the other shoe has dropped
It definitely is falling though. I hope someone catches it before it hits the ground.
So anyway, now may be a good time to:
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Reach out to our foreign friends and ask to help lobby their governments to provide refugee programs before we are cut off from the outside world.
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Look into decentralized mesh internet infrastructure.
Given the general trend of far-right everything, fat chance of 1 happening before it’s too late. Better hope Mexico is taking people.
You’re right that its a general trend, but there are exceptions.
Australia presently has a progressive government, with the largest majority in living memory. Our conservative parties have been gutted.
Granted, we have our share of dickheads, and id be happy to swap them for US lefties.
Better hope Mexico is taking people.
After everything that happened?
Besides, maybe they didn’t build the wall to keep Mexicans out but to keep US Americans in.
Good news: they didn’t build the wall at all.
Does it matter if they believe that it is there?
I2P
This is obviously not an expectation on you personally, alone. But have you guys heard of fucking organising a coherent resistance?
Please. You have nukes, and imperium over much of the world.
Could you like, actually reform and not just roll over? We don’t want you. (Well, other countries in general. Not that I’d want to prevent people fleeing, personally).
A mass flight from the US is not a viable solution for the world. It’ll be Gilead, and we’ll all be fucked.
Sincerely, from the provinces.
(P.S. it’s not super rosy here either, but at least it’s just sparkling capitalism over here, and not full on fascism)
It might be a good time to: fight like hell. Get involved in your local political groups organising to stop the rise of fascism. If you don’t, then it’s on you (collectively).
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The US has been clearly moving downhill since 2001. But the acceleration they got this year has been incredible.
And for everybody not there, remember they have the largest nuclear arsenal on Earth.
Largest conventional military as big as the rest of the world combined plus the nukes. The US is beyond scary.
Yeah, I don’t know how well their supply lines would cope against basically the entire world. But it’s still scary.
Not the entire world, not by a long shot. Realistically the entire third world would have absolutely no problem trading with Trump’s America, at least not any more than with business as usual America. Then you have Europe which is ran by pussies who would never go to war unless European mainland territory (i.e. not Greenland) is threatened, which would never happen, and Japan and South Korea are right out. This leaves the only realistic belligerents as Canada and/or Mexico if they’re invaded, Venezuela and/or Iran if Trump picks a fight with them and China if and when they decide to take Taiwan. And of course throughout all this Russia would support America, providing easy access to resources and shipping. Point being: Even in a WWIII-ish scenario America will have plenty of people willing to give it resources for the war machine; the “against the entire world” thing is very eurocentric and unduly optimistic. Now that I’m typing this out, I’d honestly bet on America in WWIII.
PS: Europe has plenty of fascists who would trade with America in such a scenario.
And of course throughout all this Russia would support America
Why? Trump is not a Russian puppet but does what US billionaires want. Syria. Ukraine, the US is opposing Russia.
This is the case now, but in case of a global-scale war Europe will absolutely be involved in opposition to America, even if as I said they’re likely to not send troops. Therefore, supporting America would be helping one geopolitical semi-rival* wear down more dedicated geopolitical rivals while pulling the semi-rival to their side, overall strengthening Russia’s geopolitical position. Also in the case of war (unless it’s a classic Europe + US against China scenario, but that’s looking less likely now) US-Europe relations would necessarily deteriorate, lessening the incentive for America to stand with Europe against Russia. It’s not like Russia and America are directly competing for anything important now that Syria is mostly settled; Russia’s ambitions are mostly a threat to Europe, not America, so if and only if the US-Europe alliance breaks down better relationships with Russia would start making sense. Yes it’d be bad for billionaires, but that’s the thing about fascism: The fascist dictator can do whatever the hell he wants and shoot anyone who disagrees. Capitalists tend to (not unjustifiably) count on the dictator to be a benevolent (to them) dictator, but there’s no mechanism guaranteeing that benevolence.
*I say semi-rival because, even though Trump is opposing Russia, he’s not nearly as dedicated as precedent would suggest, so the rivalry is cooling down.
The US have financed the NGOs in Ukraine.
Russia is the biggest obstacle against containing China.
Luckily most of that military will be turned inward.
Too bad these MAGA failed out or peaked in high school. Then lost all that was “learned”
Four touchdowns in one game.
World Wide Financial Crisis ✅
World Wide Pandemic ✅
Fascist Take Over of a Super Power ✅
History doesn’t repeat itself but it sure rhymes.
History is fractal. Self-similarity and infinite repetition with an overall semblance of chaos.
Yeah, no. That was 2015. Then from 2016-2019 it was:
Then from 2020 to 2023 it was:
Then in 2024 it was:
And now in 2025, it’s:
Not just right now. For more than a year, at least, for the sweating. If they really paid attention, they’d be off packing their things and planning their escape.
I barely paid any attention and even I know it’s 1936 over there right now.
Eh we’ve been through much worse.
Just kick back, grab a pint, and wait for enough women, minorites, and leftists to get fed through the tree chipper for this whole thing to finally blow over and improve marginally, as is our tradition.
Edit: /s because apparently this is not obvious holy shit
The joke here (if you follow US history) is that those are the groups who are actually going to stand up and frequently end up sacrificing themselves for a better future, but are never acknowledged.
I want to believe the same thing, but that’s little comfort to the ones who get fed into the wood chipper.
Great advice, hopefully they throw me into the woodchipper headfirst, I guess.
Or maybe go fuck yourself.
This is satire friend <3
Maybe take a creative writing class, learn how to read the room, practice some public speaking or something.
The leopards surely won’t eat your face…
I’d say this is the worst domestic crisis the US has been through since the Civil War, if that. It might “blow over” in the sense that the world won’t literally end, but in that sense Nazi Germany “blew over” too.
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For a long time now I have been saying that They Thought They Were Free by Milton Mayer is probably the most important book anyone can and should read. Now I feel like Cassandra.
How could anyone see this coming when until 2016 we were just minding our own business invading small countries in the east.
Has Trump announced the 1000 Year Republic yet?
Like living in a live documentary with shitty actors who are happy to portray their historical characters by committing acts of violence against other humans.
The big problem is the sort of people in the US military are the complete flag-shaggers who won’t surrender the nuclear arsenal to a responsible foreign power before it’s too late.
Which country could take that responsibility?
NATO, with France and Britain taking the actual custody.
