Something I'm curious about is what would happen if a natural disaster fucks over China like Chernobyl did with the USSR?
Like, with climate change fucking up the weather patterns bit by bit every year, what would happen to the "managed decline of the West" if something severe like Three Gorges Dam bursting in the 2020's or a Chinese equivalent of the 2011 earthquakes that led to Fukushima were to happen within the decade? What happens then?
I doubt any of these things will happen, by the way. I'm just curious if the bigwigs had any contingencies in a scenario where China is no longer a fallback.
Three Gorges Dam is not going to burst. Stop with this meme.
A more serious issue for China is general pollution and overfishing of the entire world's fish stocks. You know how every nature documentary bemoans shark fin soup or massive fishing trawlers? It's all China. All of it. Meat consumption is viewed as a mark of status the world over, and as China's middle class grows they'll only want more and more of it. EVENTUALLY (read not soon) the government will heavily restrict "wasteful meat consumption" via social credit scores, but even that might not be enough to stop it.
So basically when China drives fish stocks to extinction, it's everyone's problem and tragedy of the commons applies so China can get away with it scott free by blaming everyone else. You must eat the bugs so China can eat the salmon.
Like you said, if anything at all will bring down China before the West, it's going to most likely be related to the rampant pollution and environmental degradation under the CCP's watch.
So what I'm hearing is a universal thing: fuck the rural population with a garden rake, the cosmopolitan elites is where it's at, and they're the only ones that can prosper because they're the beacon of ideals to live by. And the CCP only really care about themselves.
People are still way too comfortable to start shooting at each other. People still have something to lose and nothing to fight for other than some vague idea of what America used to be many decades ago, and that on itself ain't enough.
Except the left has shown they are willing to kill, destroy, and remove everything they see as undesirable by any means necessary, whatever the cost. And they know that they'll be cheered for it as long as it can be spun into good PR. The fatal flaws of Antifa are that they don't think long term, are totally impatient, are incredibly trigger happy, and that keeps them from being the effective attack dogs of the Democrats. And if that's fixed...be afraid. Be very, very afraid.
This is all starting to sound very, very depressing. Are we anything other than completely fucked? What would be the best way to prosper with all this shit going on and going forward?
No. We are fucked. The best way to prosper is just to...find a way to make what you have now last for the rest of your life apparently, because in "the new normal", what opportunities are there going to be?
Nothing will happen. The USSR had similar problems. Just look at the Aral Sea. What actually broke the USSR was the revelation of the Molotov-Rippentrop Pact, which was the result of Glasnost. Pissed off the Poles like nothing else and they immediately seceded. China took the lesson from that as "destroy all ethnic identity, only Han deserve to exist, and control all information."
It's actually funny that almost all of the worst environmental disasters in history were caused by top down statism - communist or otherwise. Just remember that when Bill Gates wants to create a massive solar shade to "end global warming". Nobody ever learns.
So the only future is the CCP will crush everything that stands in their way like a bug, and take a more direct approach to their interests, whether it's telling America "you owe us a trillion dollars. Pay up, bitch." or marching their troops into every place they feel comfortable swinging their dick around. Looks like the only advice that can help your future is...Learn Mandarin and hope for the best.
However, I don't give this "calm" that much more time. If these lockdowns continue, and if a Biden/Harris/Chinese Puppet Administration prolongs it even more, then I think that Summer 2021 is going to make Summer 2020 look like child's play.
Nah, if anything, people will stay home and watch whatever because "they're saving lives!" . Whatever governments can do to make a lockdown manageable will be what happens, and the only fuckup that's possible is doing it too quickly. And then there's the part where you can only go outside if you have documentation of getting the vaccine. As for Summer, that's just an all you can eat buffet of good PR points for Democrats when it comes to a Cultural Revolution, especially since Summer of 2020 happened of Trump's watch. Just remember: history is written by the winners.
Biden/Harris are not going to institute the Nu-Woke Reich(as they are neither capable of this nor do they want to really), and in two years time the Dems will likely be clobbered in the 2022 mid-terms. As far as voter fraud is concerned, remember that both Florida and Ohio instituted significant electoral reform after the 2000 and 2004 elections respectively. Keep your chin up and remember that the fight against the globalist cucks only really ends if you give up.
Except that Biden and Harris were only meant to flush Trump out of the system, and set the table for the next person to set up the future, whether it's a progressive utopia made easier by amnesty, court packing, and DC and Puerto Rico made states (just to name a few), or China coming in and (more) directly running shit.
It's over, this is pretty final. Republicans have been reduced to a regional party for good and you're not getting back in government ever again. Populism is also dead because that's what's going to be blamed. The tea party was taken out back and shot, and Trump's wing of the party will be too, and pretty soon we'll have GOPe telling us how happy we should be to still be in control of a handful of states. But we gotta have more foreign workers, you know! Those industrious Indians are VITAL to our tech industry, as without them workers might unionize and we as "suicide by free market and free trade" republicans wouldn't want that! And those Mexicans, so religious! They're our new conservative base, we promise! Just have to teach them about the Constitution aaaaaaaaand oh wait nevermind they're Marxists and have been for generations. But then I'm sure Mormons will be our party's future! We'll control Idaho and Utah! Imagine that, the GOP running two whole states. Maybe three!
If you think otherwise, please explain how the Republican party can reverse these very narrow losses that were accomplished through loopholes in ballot harvesting laws, governors changing mail-in ballot counting last minute, and courts Catch-22ing all challenges. "Oh we'll get em next time". Next time the Supreme Court will be packed and you'll have lost state legislature seats. 2022 is going to be a massacre for Republicans, who will stave off vicious primary challenges then lose in the regular election, and then in 2024 whoever the GOP runs is going to get Ross Perot'd by Trump's MAGA party - if that ever gets off the ground at all, which I actually doubt because he barely got any money in 2016 or 2020 from GOP donors, who are majority Never Trump. What donors are gonna support him or his party in 2024? Where are the staffers going to come from? Elections are won and lost in the ground game, and if Trump's party has zero ground game they'll only serve to play impotent spoiler.
So how long do you think it'll be before the GOP stops getting token wins and are thrown to the curb instead of being controlled opposition?
If you're a gun owner, prepare to be ground into a fine paste. The gun control plan on Biden's campaign website includes bans on private sales, manufacturing bans on most modern gun designs, and a plan to reclassify pretty much everything but old deer rifles and joe's trusty old trap gun as "assault weapons" that must be registered on the same federal registry as machine guns and grenade launchers. Getting on that registry requires that each item have a $200 tax stamp, and it looks like he wants fucking magazines to require registration as well. I can't wait to pay $200 to keep a $10 pmag, fuck everything
You also forgot the part where you'll have to be reporting when a gun is stolen. And if your stolen gun is used in a crime, be prepared to be sued into oblivion as you'll be held liable by the courts and you have to pay mountains of damages to victims' families, which may be separate from the gun manufactures. Like red flag laws that talk about keeping guns from people deemed to be a danger to themselves and others and those with domestic violence convictions, gun control provides the bread and butter of Democrats: getting whatever you want passed by way of coating it in enough good PR and optics.
Is there any chance the Democratic Senate will not vote in lockstep when it comes to time to railroading everything they need to irreparably reshape this country? I think it is a bit of a longshot to count on Manchin for anything.
No. The only fight will be progressives bitching with Congress over not getting their grand utopia fast enough, even with pet projects of liberals being pursued at breakneck speeds.
This is how the blue dogs always are. They're in swing districts/red states, and act like they're "the good kind of democrat", but in reality if you ask them what their vision of the future should be like - it is identical to AOC's future. Forget the frog boiling in the pot, this is wolf in sheep's clothing. They have to hide their real beliefs because of where they're from.
You mean how the biggest thing for how AOC's talk of lists of Trump supporters, the Trump Accountability Project, and the Trust and Reconciliation Commission only got traction because she said them hours after Biden was called as the winner?
Well, I have a question. Do you think China is eventually going to become less or more dystopian? It seems they're coming out of this as the real winner and will have unprecedented power. Are they going to eventually become more socially free, or will it get worse? What do you think the world is going to look like ten years from now with China at the helm? Cyberpunk but with China instead of Japan?
Whatever's worse for everyone except the CCP.
So how would you say is the best way to live? If everything is coming to an end then what is a person to do with their life?
All that's left with life? Resist the urge to go to Minecraft and end it. An uphill battle every single, it might look like.
You guys think McConnell is getting impeached?
My guess: he's trying to avoid that by trying to stab Trump like how Caesar went down.
If Trump's going to go down, he's taking the whole Republican Party down with him.
Wasn't that always what was going to happen?
He entirely opposed the $2K because Trump was for it. The hill that McConnel wants to die on is "everyone hates Trump, everyone will hate Trump more in 2 years after 2 years of dammnatio memorae and I will be seen as having correctly opposed him."
It's all about restoring the supremacy of the GOP Elite to pre-2016 status. That means more to him than a majority now.
That was always the plan. Biden winning just gave him the confidence to talk a little louder.
