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Accelerationists and bigots make up a large chunk of that bloc, and “temporarily embarrassed millionaires” make up the rest.

(The oligarchs that bought him don’t count in the same group as the plebeians.)

There are a lot of us who've been paying close attention, though, and are doing all we can.

I was 17 when 9/11 happened and I've been watching and learning. Now is the time to move

You may be able to survive the shakeup. Maybe a loved one doesn't end up in Lubbock or Alcatraz or CECOT. Maybe your neighborhood looks like it always did.

Maybe your state plays nice with the feds. Maybe it doesn't. Maybe shit gets hairy. The people pulling Trump's strings want Christian Nationalism and they'll get it, at least here in the South. We fought em before and we'll fight em again. We may lose, though.

The time for action is here.

I thought it was the dotcom crash and great recession, in addition to the ones you mentioned war on "terror" and pandemic.

I'm pretty sure we did all died that day. We're clearly in hell at this point.

Except it’s not interesting anymore. It’s been a cycle of the same bullshit over and over again.

Young me in 2012 "I want to live through interesting times" 🤔 rather than being bored. Little did I know.

Both can be true.

I also appreciate the restoration of our ozone layer. I remember there was a time (when above a certain latitude at least) my skin would fucking burn in less than 5 minutes under direct sun, it's a lot better now but it seems weird we all just kind of collectively forgot about that time when we all nearly ended the world to such a degree that we could feel it outside, then we all reversed course and fixed it mostly.

I wonder if we would be more motivated to fix our current issues if they caused skin burns.

We got lulled into thinking everything was going to be fine. Then we got whacked with all the tech outsourcing, dot-bomb, 9/11…etc. but at least we had cheaper college first and that gave us a foot in the door without as much of the crushing college debt that millennials never got.

Seen it all happen from a "safe" distance. Damn you're unlucky in a way.

And squandered the shit out of it.

The rise of the middle class was definitely a historical anomaly. Most of history has been the top 1% oppressing most everyone else.

Millions of man-hours were put in to keep Y2K from happening. In their coverage of New Year's Eve 1999, ABC cut to the Y2K control room where people were amazed nothing was happening.

The only recognition all of those folks got for all of their work to keep the lights on and the planes in the air was the movie Office Space, and people who were disappointed they didn't fail.