• NotLemming@lemm.ee
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    15 hours ago

    Maybe he’ll be impeached if the economy tanks badly enough… Tbh I don’t understand how it hasn’t yet… Maybe his wealthy supporters are keeping things artificially stable.

    He lied his way through covid and unless bird flu killed lots of young people I think he’d lie his way through that, or make it a religious punishment and just blame/ ban homosexuals or something. The MAGA cultists are never going to make him accountable for anything.

    The bad thing about America is that people are already dying in the streets, homelessness is normal… Huge amounts of people locked up. So I guess it won’t seem so shocking when that increases.

    • theneverfox
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      39 minutes ago

      Nah, we’re in late stage capitalism - the economy is divorced from reality, the way we measure it ie basically based on speculation. And the effects haven’t had time to ripple through yet, that’ll take months

      And yeah, we have people dying in the streets and people locked up… But this isn’t remotely at the same scale. This is like at least one person you know will be a victim here on average… This is old people in the suburbs dying on the sidewalk. This is tons more people living in their car, this is people being pushed to crime to survive en mass

      It’s hard to explain how bad things are going to get… This isn’t more of the same, this is going to be much less abstract for most people