Signs of the Decline

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Signs of the Decline

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This certainly isn't looking like a growing, thriving civilization, around here. Use this thread to list and talk about all of the certainly unrelated things that are suggestive of a nation in decline.

I'll get the easy one out of the way: supply chain issues. Bare spots on grocery store shelves, chip shortages, inability to unload boats. I've said for a long time it looks like pictures of history books of 1980s USSR, the opposite of a symbol of a healthy economy.

Then there's the cost of housing. In large chunks of the country, wages have not kept up with the ability to buy a home, or even oftentimes rent an apartment. Massive divide between the top and bottom, and it's getting wider.

Energy prices at historic highs. The rich don't feel it, the poor are getting fucked sideways.

And, I don't feel a lot of confidence that anyone thinks it's going to get better.

Ok now you go.
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Serious question: What the fuck can't go here? I think this is far too broad a topic. Plus, it depends a lot on your politics. A religious person (we've had at least one) would put all gay stories here. A left winger would put everything R or Trump here. A right winger would post everything D or Biden here. People in the middle would want to put EVERYTHING here.

I mean, look around. Compromise is a foreign concept. Division seems to be the main purpose of the MSM. Making Wall St happy now, long term damage be damned, is the driving force for the corporate world, which yes Catt, IS different than simply making a profit. (But let's do that fight elsewhere if we need to again. :D ) There are two massive cults in this country that are, literally, unable to admit being wrong on ANY issue and they worship a fucking letter. Meanwhile, roads are shit everywhere. Fire departments are made to hire people that cannot physically do the job. Ditto for cops who are also forced to work solo thanks to budget cuts. The IRS cannot process refunds in any sort of timely manner. Jobs openings are EVERYWHERE. There are more POC mass shooters than white ones...by a lot, black people killed or attacked Asian people at an alarming rate, the riots of 2020 and the elected officials that openly spurred on the violence, people on TikTok telling white people not to tan unless they're BLM allies otherwise its cultural appropriation, the entire concept of cultural appropriation and how it oddly only goes one way, you could very easily make the case that straight white CIS males are the most socially or culturally oppressed people in the U.S. right now, but "white supremacy" is the greatest threat facing the nation? Trump and Jan 6th. The environment going to shit and instead of demanding corporate/government responsibility, we're told that us individuals are the problem and solution. Comedy is being criticized and censored because comedians dare joke about things [random audience member] doesn't find funny. Our "elites" are slapping each other on stage at a televised event because of a lame joke. Our last president was about as presidential as a lump of shit. Our current president should be in hospice. Loads of people actually think AOC is an intellectual. People spend millions they don't have to get elected to jobs that pay dick, yet walk out as multimillionaires and nobody bats a fucking eye. College debt is a ball and chain forced upon a population that never needed it. Morons are demanding the government take away the one thing standing between them and true oppression, while also not seeing the hypocrisy of their driving down the road drunk. This country has a massive mental health crisis going on, but the government dismantled our mental health care system. There are fucking idiots out there trying to get another Constitutional Convention put together so they can re-write the Constitution. The current climate has actually made it safe for pedos and animal fuckers to push their agendas in public without fear of, rightly, being put in the ground. Men who went through puberty are suddenly deciding they're women (something that used to be a treatable mental disorder) and dominating women's sports. And if you really think I couldn't go on with this list for another hour, you're also a moron.

The lunatics are 100% running the asylum and nobody seems to give a shit. Probably because no one person has the power to change anything. We just have to wait until this all inevitably crashes and then we can hopefully make something better.
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