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So WW3 is definitely going to happen in our lifetimes right? CW: vent (lemmy.ml)
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CW: drunken ramble and depressing realities

i've been spending a lot of time reading about ww1 and ww2, maybe all of that is getting to my head but surely ww3 will be so much worse. it is inevitable right? imperialist cooperation is breaking down in front of our eyes. America is effectively becoming if not aleady a fascist state. I cannot see an outcome that is not global warfare.

those wars were awful, I mean truly violence I cannot comprehend. I read about these events through an academic lense and I am so detached from the horror of them but I am horrified by the knowledge that my future is likely worse. what can we even do? are we even capable of avoiding this fate? I wonder if global socialism will be born through rubble and famine. i do not want to starve.

I am not asking for comfort, though I am not entirely sure why I am making this post. I don't want sympathy to be clear. idk. I am just reading about China's situation before communism and holy shit it was so awful. I am so seperated from the reality they experienced that I don't think I can fully fathom it.

I am sorry if this is a meaningless ramble I decided to drink tonight bc of the winter storm and I am in a crisis mode. I don't want to see my partner suffer. they deserve a better life than we are going to get. I wish a better world was possible without having to suffer so much for it but maybe that is the priviledge speaking. I dont't know how I can look her in the eyes and tell her it is worth it. I just want to escape.

I often wonder what my life would be like without these attachments. I want to give myself fully to resistance and while I am not afraid of losing my life doing so I am terrified of my loved ones suffering because of it. I don't my partner and my family to suffer because I oppose fascism. I don't want the reality of what america is to destroy the people I love. I am terrified that there is no hope for this place. i don't want to be executed in the streets but I can't not act. the more a learn about the past the more terrified I am of the future.

I am glad I found hexbear and I am glad ti changed my perspective on the world but holy shit have I suffered for it. fascism is terrifying but I can't not act against it. I am only putting this in doomer because it feels wrong for main or chat.

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[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 26 points 2 days ago

Maybe not ww3 but something very bad is coming to the US for sure. Been reading about Rwanda a lot lately and this shit with ICE and the chuds is laying the groundwork for genocide of immigrants/nonwhites, citizens or not. You can't support dragging people out of their homes, arresting 5 year olds, unless you don't view these people as human.

We are in a very bad place.

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 23 points 2 days ago

[–] KnilAdlez@hexbear.net 25 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I don't really think a world war is in the cards. At least in America, there is really no political will to have a near-peer war. America is already ceding ground to China to focus on maintaining its imperialism in South America.

Until there is a genuine vanguard army, you giving your life wont be effective. Lenin survived two wars with the red army, Mao survived british occupation and japanese fascism with the PLA. Your best option for safety and resistance is through organizing.

[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 7 points 2 days ago

All it takes is one set of itchy fingers on nukes

I don't know how humanity has lived under this threat for so long but I do know that if we ever survive this point in history and live long enough to look back it will be clear that it's at least a big part is why everyone is so mentally fucked

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago

I meant dedicating my life not dying for a cause. My goal is to not die but still support the cause. Ideally

[–] SexMachineStalin@hexbear.net 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hopefully whatever happens, that China and the Global South emerge as survivors; Then the world will eventually rebuild without the threat from the Axis of Satan.

[–] TrashGoblin@hexbear.net 9 points 2 days ago (3 children)

posadas

Stripped of the alien and dolphin memes, this is what Posadism was about.

[–] ComradeRat@hexbear.net 7 points 2 days ago

Atomic war is inevitable. It will destroy half of humanity: it is going to destroy immense human riches. It is very possible. The atomic war is going to provoke a true inferno on Earth. But it will not impede Communism.

[–] duderium@hexbear.net 7 points 2 days ago

Posadism is nothing without aliens and dolphins.

[–] duderium@hexbear.net 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

little girl from the end of akira “it has already begun.”

ww2 in europe also began with the phoney war. We’re just in a long phoney war…I guess.

And it’s also like, bruh, if you’re poor, the apocalypse already happened for you a long time ago.

[–] IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I think that there is massive psychological manipulation that's been for on for over 2 decades.

The war has been going on for a long time it just wasn't using guns.

[–] Tychoxii@hexbear.net 12 points 2 days ago

Thinking of future posibilities (plural) is useful but always remember it is impossible to predict the future.

A slide towards bad things can indeed bring about abject horror or a quick turnaround towards good. As the contradictions intensify there may be a catastrophic collapse but that may be looked back as the best thing that could have happened as it prevented WW3.

It is impossible to know, right now there're millions who live in what you could call catastrophic conditions. Imagine living in Eurasia during 1943, if those people maintained hope and camarederie we can as well.

[–] supafuzz@hexbear.net 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

WW3 has been going on for a long time if you're brown or slavic https://indi.ca/three-ways-world-war-three/

[–] supafuzz@hexbear.net 8 points 2 days ago

new WW3 theory just dropped https://indi.ca/five-fronts-ww3/

[–] abc@hexbear.net 9 points 2 days ago

No

[–] Poophammer@hexbear.net 7 points 2 days ago

All I know is that I'm not dying in any war lol

[–] CrawlMarks@hexbear.net 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I have occasionally thought about hoe sick it would have been to dodge the draft for ww2. Like, not if you lived in the ussr right. But here in the US that would be sick as hell

[–] abc@hexbear.net 8 points 2 days ago (3 children)

you're so right it would be sick to dodge the draft in the fight against.....nazis.....????

[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 5 points 2 days ago

How is staying home while someone else does all the work NOT sick af, all my homies lazymaxx

[–] CrawlMarks@hexbear.net 4 points 2 days ago

Given the course of history did america actually fight against the nazis? Imagine dying only to find out your descendants went on hire nazis across the world.

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

and imperial japan.

like it was a revolution for the occupied people and only an inter-imperial conflict for the americans but at the moment they were circumstantially on the correct side of something.

[–] RomCom1989@hexbear.net 4 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Why? WW2 is like the only other war, besides the civil war,where I would say the US was ostensibly on the right side

[–] vovchik_ilich@hexbear.net 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The US joined the assault on Germany after they were losing in order not to let the Soviets carry the glory of liberating all Europe and Europe turning socialist afterwards. The same happened in the Korean peninsula.

[–] RomCom1989@hexbear.net 6 points 2 days ago

Fair enough,hence why I said ostensibly

[–] CrawlMarks@hexbear.net 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It is pretty clear that the US used the space it cleared by participating in the war to preserve fascist power in colonies worldwide.

[–] RomCom1989@hexbear.net 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Don't disagree,I'm just saying that fighting against Nazi Germany is good,kind of in the same way fighting against the US is good now, they're the bigger and more brutal threat

[–] CrawlMarks@hexbear.net 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah, the line is subtle. Cause like, fighting bad guys with the bad guys feels bad in my brain. But then fighting bad guys sounds good. I want to say there in an angle where we let them fight and then with the resources we saved by not doing in place of some lib we are better positioned to moce forward but I don't think I can articulate it well

[–] CrawlMarks@hexbear.net 8 points 2 days ago

The US let the south cancel reconstruction. So in fact we were just less bad

[–] TheBroodian@hexbear.net 7 points 2 days ago

You never know, you might've been given a mission to protect and facilitate rat lines

[–] Poophammer@hexbear.net 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I feel like WW2 was just two sides of fascism going at it and the prize was israel

[–] ComradeRat@hexbear.net 2 points 2 days ago

Three wars in one: (1) the Second Great Interimperialist War between the British, French, and Americans on one side and the Axis on the other; (2) the defence of Soviet power from fascist invasion; (3) popular (often communist led) opposition to fascism

Western ally boots on the ground is a large part of what kept the Greek, Italian and French communusts from winning and is what allowed them to prevent the red army from marching to the atlantic. The western allies were never the "good guys".

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

the US was on both of the wrong sides of the civil war. the correct side would be the dismantling the settler states and restoration of indigenous sovereignty

[–] RomCom1989@hexbear.net 1 points 2 days ago

Yes,I'm saying the confederates were worse

[–] an_engel_on_earth@hexbear.net 7 points 2 days ago (3 children)

india pakistan seems likely to go nuclear in the next 10-20 years. It'll just keep escalating with each successive conflagration and then boom.

[–] Crucible@hexbear.net 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Thinking about this paper that studied climate change won't be as bad for the first world if there's a limited nuclear exchange, specifically citing India and Pakistan

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 3 points 2 days ago

Patrolling the Mojave really makes you

[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 5 points 2 days ago

So next week in 2020s reckoning

[–] redparadise@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 days ago

I seriously doubt that India-Pakistan is going nuclear any time soon, entire point of the escalations from India was simply to invoke nationalism for elections and get the citizens into a war-like attitude, a nuclear war however would severely damage capital and would not be in the interests of either, a conventional meat-grinder war is more likely imo.

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 5 points 2 days ago

I don't think they'll look the same nor last the same amount of time. Many countries won't have any military or organisation at all after the first wave of nukes.

The west, Russia and China will be devastated but the global south isn't going to get nuked all that much. If I survive I'll probably head to Brazil.

[–] grandepequeno@hexbear.net 6 points 2 days ago

I still can't fathom it happening, I don't think many people in my country would be willing to die for anything