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The collapse of the American empire would benefit almost every other country. I am starting to feel that since I live in America I should want to accelerate the collapse (or make sure one happens if things start to go back to business as usual). Can someone tell me why this is a bad idea so that I don't make a mistake here.

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[–] pyromaiden@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

No that's pretty much what you said.

If you meant something different maybe try different phrasing because as it stands your post reads as: "Nothing ever happens and people need to die for that to change."

[–] BarrelsBallot@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Well I apologize for phrasing it poorly.

Time has shown that suffrage is the great unifier, most here sugar coat this by saying that for people to be convinced "their material conditions must be right".

Suffrage may include death, and death may be necessary in regards to those who are fascist. But death is not necessary for the masses to become radicalized. Just the cessation of all that provides comfort and escape from the consequences of u.s global hegemony.

We in the u.s (even left adjacent) love the dividends of imperialism, so far it's only when domestic conditions worsen that people cry out. Abroad, millions every year have been snuffed out for decades to maintain our domestic comforts and not a thing has been done. The dividends must cease. The greatest driver of that cessation have been our own homegrown fascists.

If and when liberals take back power it will be back to brunch, as it was post 2020, and so many times before.

It has to get worse, it will regardless.

[–] pyromaiden@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Why do you think liberals will take power again? Everything currently points to the slow but real death of liberalism in the US. Fascism is rising, people want it stopped, liberals are doing nothing. I don't see liberalism surviving this.

This is just "nothing ever happens" but with more words.

[–] Darkcommie@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Liberals will survive this

[–] pyromaiden@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

Not seeing it tbh. Liberals can only get cooked so much and they're practically burnt at this point; any further cooking and they'll just incinerate.