I’m going to die a very scary, traumatic death and so are a lot of the people who are closest to my heart—we’re all homeless, and we’re all drug addicts, and I have the special bonus of being (sort of) trans as well. I’m already seeing the ratcheting up of hatred for homeless drug users—I’ll be shot in the head and kicked into a pit, and my only hope is that I’ll be one of the very first so I won’t have to live with the pain of worrying about anyone I care about.
So yeah, while I agree that America’s collapse would be a W for humankind overall, it’s hard to fucking see that silver lining when things are that bleak.
I just want the rest of what’s likely to be a very short life to be chill. I just want things to be normal.
I’d love to see this timeline for US collapse. Because what I’m seeing is the gutting of the EPA and likely the expansion of colonial capitalism for natural resources under a Trump administration.
None of that is good for humans or anyone else that lives on this planet.
And of course, targeting of trans people and other minorities domestically. Which personally affects me. But I don’t see a silver lining for the rest of the planet either.
I can’t stand the Democrats as much as the next leftist. But the US collapse rhetoric feels more like nihilism than hope to me.